TOT: Training Of Trainers, Kenya

A business setup programme for rural women run by Kenyan university students The TOT (Training of Trainers) project started up in 2003 with help from Kianda Foundation and the European Union. The aim was for women from Ngarariga, Riara and Ngong to become promoters and [...]
Tags: Education, Service, Solidarity, Development, Economy, enterprise, Society, Kenya

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Center for the Integral Development of Women (CADI)

CADI: Center for the Support of Integral Development “I’ve been coming to CADI since it started, when there was no building and the meetings and clinics were held in the house of one of the neighbors, Don Catalino, who vacated one of his rooms for us,” [...]
Tags: Education, Children, Service, Solidarity, Women

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Harambee award for the person to show the real story in Africa

Africa continues to be an unknown territory for many. Not only for those who visit its deep jungles or its deserts. Even those who read the headlines daily don’t get the full grasp of the reality on the continent. Harambee, an NGO, says the media rarely [...]
Tags: Canonization, Solidarity, truth

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Online journal: India Service Project

A group of young Australians and New Zealanders are taking part in the India Service Project in New Delhi, from January – February 2010. In the blog http://indiaserviceproject2010.blogspot.com they recount their daily adventures with beautiful pictures and a good dose of humour. Below is a [...]
Tags: Youth, Solidarity, University

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There is life beyond retirement

“Some people retire and go off to Benidorm or Marbella. When we retired, we got the chance to move to Congo,” says Ines. She and her husband and Ramon, both doctors, are parents of 10 children. Ines and Ramon don’t consider themselves heroic. The heroes [...]
Tags: Solidarity, family

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Work on Church of St Josemaria forges ahead in Munyaka

In 2003, the Catholics of Munyaka obtained some land to begin building a church in honor of St Josemaria Escriva. They now have a temporary building which they use for Sunday Mass, and they are hoping that the proper church, with a presbytery, will soon [...]
Tags: Love of God, Piety, Solidarity

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How is it possible to suffer so much and still keep smiling?

How is it possible to suffer so much and still keep smiling? The adventure began several months ago when it was confirmed that in July we would be able to participate, from Sweden, in a social project in Udbina, a town located in the region of [...]
Tags: Youth, Solidarity

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Escriva school in The Philipines

For Leonora Vinluan, MA Values Education alumna, running her own school had been a longtime dream. In 2005, after finishing her studies at UA&P University of Asia and the Pacific , in the Philippines , that dream was realized with a little help from [...]
Tags: Education, Children, Solidarity

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Students build homes – and a more human society

“A university must educate its students to have a sense of service to society,” said St Josemaria Escriva. In Tunapuna, Trinidad, a group of people ranging from secondary school to university students showed their solidarity with families in difficulties by building them a new house [...]
Tags: Youth, Solidarity, Work

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Dont be satisfied with justice alone

Charity goes beyond justice
Tags: Charity, Justice, Service, Solidarity