Participating in community microcredit groups, in addition to providing support for individual activities, allows for the development of collective activities born from mutual trust.
Burundi, from the group strength and ideas for new jobs
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Year: 2022
When education is good for everyone
Educating the most vulnerable communities and those who need more attention is a challenge. But it is a path that is also good for the operators.
Our school in Syria
In Syria there is war, economic crisis, health emergency. But there are also the rights of young Syrians who dream of studying to improve their future. AMU supports them with the project Seeds of Hope.
Ukraine – a child-friendly center
Along with the activities to assist families, the funds raised by the Emergency Coordination of the Focolare Movement for the Ukrainian emergency support the creation of a multifunctional center where children can grow up safe from the dangers and traumas of war.
Sierra Leone, the dream of a school is getting closer
In Serekolia, work on the school is proceeding quickly, also thanks to the contribution of the population, aware of the importance that a larger school can have for their children.
September, school: consciously building your future
September brings with it the beginning of school and for us it becomes an opportunity to focus on training and education. Fundamental elements for the development of communities in Italy and elsewhere.
Live Peace! September 17th in Grottaferrata
LIVE PEACE – Let’s make peace fly, together! is the title of the event for kids and families that will be held in Grottaferrata, full of workshops and activities to experience peace together
Making Soap Makes Dreams Come True in Burundi
It is through work that Richard began to realize his dreams, in Burundi: he produces and sells soap. The program Si può fare! Microcredito e microfinanza comunità (It can be done! Community microcredit and microfinance) accompanied the boy in starting this business.
THE SWIFT/BIC CODE IS CHANGING
From 30 August 2022, the Swift/Bic code for making international transfers, in favour of Amu, to the Banca Popolare Etica account, will change.
Physiotherapy and Treatments to Rekindle Optimism – Syria
There is something that goes beyond the physiotherapy and the treatments, even if essential, that the protagonists of the AMU projects receive: it is the possibility to look to the future with optimism. This was the case for Elias thanks to the project Seeds of Hope in Syria.
Caritas-Spes Ukraine, today is the time of waiting
Until a few months ago they never believed it was possible to lose everything in a few days, abandon home, work, friends, and start over at sixty. But they, Olena and Olha, two sisters who lived in Mariupol in Ukraine, today live the time of waiting at Caritas-Spes. Goodbye, but with the desire to return.
Ahmed’s report card: what a satisfaction!
Amhed, in Syria, holds his thirteen-year-old boy’s last report card in his hands. This year, at school, he was the best in his class and it is a great satisfaction for him because he achieved this goal after a long educational journey at the after-school program supported by AMU in Homs with the program Seeds of Hope.
