Partnerships



Alan Fonteles and Suzete Montalban ( Project Papo Cabeça)

He was only eight years old when he sought, in  Project "Papo Cabeça" for beginners in Belém-PA, the coach Suzete Montalban.

Suzete got surprised when he said that he intended to become a runner.

Suzette recalls that she was moved to see the boy perched on two  rustic homemade common wood prostheses that she agreed to help him.

Fonteles has improved gradually, as a runner and as a person.

Hence, in 2006, in Belém, he met  Rivaldo Martins, a competitor of the Ironman also extraordinary.

Rivaldo became fascinated with the commitment of Fonteles, and in 2007, he landed a sponsorship Challenge Athletes Foundation, an organization that brings together disabled athletes from various modalities, so that the boy from Maraba traveled to São Paulo and obtained two prostheses ultra-modern fittings with anatomical, tailored, and metal blades.

In short, Fonteles is an example of overcoming.