What would you like to know about Zoé?

Someone who publishes what you can check yourself: tax registration and clearance certificates, an outside audit of every financial year since 2023, accounts broken down by activity, a leadership listed by name and role, where the money comes from and where each real goes. This page answers every one of those points, and the questions below say which part of it holds each answer.

Ask for seven things and see whether they are public: registration as a legal entity and in the place where the organization works; a published independent audit; results by activity, not just yearly totals; who runs it, by name; where the money comes from; where it goes; and certifications you can check at the source. Each of those seven becomes one of the questions below.

Zoé is the trading name of Associação de Apoio à Saúde de Populações Remotas, incorporated in November 2021. The head office is in São Paulo (SP), tax ID (CNPJ) 43.982.556/0001-33, and the branch is in Belterra (PA), CNPJ 43.982.556/0002-14, with its bylaws filed at the local registry on 28 August 2026. The CNPJ certificates, the bylaws and the tax clearance certificates are published as PDFs on this page.

• See the documents

They are, for every financial year since 2023: Grant Thornton Auditoria e Consultoria Ltda. audited 2023, and BDO RCS Auditores Independentes SS Ltda. audited 2024 and 2025 — all three with an unqualified opinion. The 2021 and 2022 statements are published but were never externally audited, and the page says so. The audit reports are PDFs served from this domain.

• See the accounts in numbers

You can. Every expedition has a public page with people seen, volunteers, donated hours, donated services, the team, the partners and care broken down by procedure — each figure appears when there is a record for it. That is accountability activity by activity, not just a yearly total.

• See every expedition

The president, the vice-president, the audit committee, the board of directors, the advisory board and the founders are all listed on this page by name and role. The bylaws, which set out what each body decides, are among the documents published here.

• See who runs Zoé

Mostly from donations, according to the audited statements: from individuals, from companies, in kind, from abroad, and other donations. Each audit report published on this page breaks the total down by source in an explanatory note. The full table, year by year, is on this page as well.

• See the accounts in numbers

The income statement on this page separates project costs from the association's other expenses. Project costs include medical services provided by volunteers — donated work that appears both in revenue and in costs, at the amount the auditors determined, and is detailed in an explanatory note to each audit report. The health professionals are volunteers, and on most expeditions supplies and equipment arrive donated by partners.

• Make a donation

Zoé is on the list of certified organizations of Certificadora Social (formerly Instituto Doar), holding the Selo Doar A+ for management and transparency, and it has its own page on GlobalGiving. Both links lead to those institutions' own websites, not to a copy hosted here.

• Certificadora Social's list of certified organizations
• Zoé's page on GlobalGiving

It comes back. The expeditions repeat in the same territories since November 2020, and between them the presence does not stop: psychology and psychiatry are continuous programs, delivered by telehealth, following the same patients month after month. In Belterra (Pará), where Zoé works the most, the association opened a branch with its own tax registration inside the municipal hospital, in 2026.

• See the psychology program
• See the psychiatry program

The training of the local team. The surgical expeditions come back to the same municipal hospital twice a year since the founding, and each one trains the staff who stay: the hospital now performs on its own operations that used to depend on Zoé arriving. Every expedition page records the people trained, alongside the consultations.

• See every expedition

With it. Within the Surgery in the Forest Program, the waiting list is organized together with the municipal health department and the local hospital, from the demand already registered in the public health system, and Zoé assesses every case before surgery. Cases that require intensive care or high complexity are referred to the regional network, and post-operative follow-up stays with the local network, with guidance from Zoé. SESAI/DSEI, the Indigenous health subsystem, is among the partner institutions.

• See the Surgery in the Forest Program
• See the partner institutions