THE HEALTH FAIR PROJECT AS A HEALTH PROMOTION TOOL: AN EXPERIENCE REPORT.

Introduction and objective: the health fair project is an official strategy of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which is performed by volunteers throughout Brazil. In Rio Grande do Norte, provides activities for 1 year and has about 100 volunteers. The project believes that practicing healthy habits in a natural way is critical to maintaining the health and retrieve it in most cases of vulnerability and fragility. The fair serves the strategic perspectives of the National Health Promotion Policy, the Ministry of Health. The objective is to report the vivencias practices at the Health Fair project as a member and describe the educational and health promotion forms. Method: This is an experience report from the practices experienced in the year 2014/2015, for professionals and students in the health field. The project‘s methodological format tent Paulo Freire. Results and conclusions: through the activities participants are encouraged to change lifestyle habits by adopting healthy practices of well-being. Adventist health body performs at the fair reduction actions damage to smokers and drinkers in addition to providing comprehensive care to people who wish to leave the vices. The project is being carried out in order to promote habits and guide users to adopt healthy practices that prevent vulnerability to illness. In this sense, we can see that the satisfaction of the people adhere to healthy habits and changing lifestyle, becoming peer educators and participants of the actions developed by the project.