Micro-credits and a lot of help

In May 2002, I went to the funeral of the husband of Yaya Lita, my children’s nanny, in a small barrio in San Pedro Laguna (Philippines), I saw the state of poverty Yaya Lita and her neighbors were living in. I started to think of [...]
Tags: Formation, Poverty, Solidarity

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The 'megamoms', in the Philippines

Barrio Luz is one of the biggest urban poor communities in Cebu (Philippines). Residents here are mainly fire victims from various squatter communities. Families live in shacks measuring an average 15 square meters for at least five family members. Most parents are unemployed, except for [...]
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Kimlea Girls’ Technical Training Center

Kimlea, a training center in Kenya, was started under the inspiration of Saint Josemaría’s teachings and spirit, and has been working for the benefit of African women for several decades. Perhaps it is only at Gatina Nursery School, located within Gatina Tea Estate in Limuru, [...]
Tags: Formation, Solidarity

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Harambee

St Josemaria’s canonization had an effect on Africa: Harambee collected over 1 million Euros to help 24 sub-saharan African development projects.
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Spanish TV report wins international Harambee Communicating Africa prize

“Women for a Better World”, a TV report directed by Mayte Pascual, produced by Spanish television channel TVE, and broadcast as part of the programme Weekly Update, has won the Audiovisual prize in the third Harambee International “Communicating Africa” contest, 2008. The jury awarded second [...]
Tags: Justice, Service, Solidarity, Communication, Harambee

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Sendas, a dispensary in Buenos Aires

November 24, 2007, a neighborhood gathering took place in Los Ceibos shanty-town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the opening of “Sendas”, a center for primary health care and the prevention of malnutrition. The Diocesan Bishop blessed the premises and evoked the memory [...]
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Harambee Africa International. Rome, October 27th

“Trust in mankind, and love and be close to people of every condition. From these points of reference, the fruit of the teachings of St Josemaria, was born the Harambee Programme for Africa.” This is the way Giovanni Mottini, the president of the new charitable [...]
Tags: Canonization, Charity, Education, Poverty, Solidarity, Harambee

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Education and civil responsibility

A man or a society that does not react to suffering and injustice and makes no effort to alleviate them is still distant from the love of Christ's heart. While Christians enjoy the fullest freedom in finding and applying various solutions to these problems, they [...]
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Testimony

The Church’s social teaching will get across when people practice it

Fr. Enrique Colom lectures in moral theology (justice and the social teaching of the Church) at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome. He first met St Josemaria in October 1960, a few months after joining Opus Dei. Over the following ten years he [...]
Tags: Citizenship, Justice, Solidarity, Work, Consistency

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Crotona Center, US

New York’s Bronx district is notorious for its social problems. A stereotyped view has it characterized by the triad of drugs, crime and poverty. The reality is more complex and, thank God, not so totally negative. You only have to look and see. Every year [...]
Tags: Sport, Formation, Youth, Solidarity