How has daily life changed now that drinking water is available? Three women who live on Nyarunazi Hill in Burundi answer this question. The impact of the Water Source of Life and Development project in Ruyigi on the habits, gestures, feelings and expectations of the community is crucial.
Year: 2023
Community Microcredit: Emile and Moza’s Winning Choice
Being able to take care of yourself and your children is a great success. Emile and Moza – a couple living in Bujumbura, Burundi – managed to do so with hard work and initiative. The change came when they became members of a community microcredit group. And it involved more than just their family.
Syria, shelves full of spices!
It is a wonder for Tony to see all those spices that fill his shop. After the war and the economic crisis he was left without a job. With RestarT he realized his dream and found serenity.
Through listening I learned to know others
Who are the young people who participated in the Sendero Joven pilot project? And, above all, what did this experience leave them with? Some decided to share their impressions, opening their hearts.
Buenos Aires, a new “path” for young ex-drug addicts
Sendero Joven is an educational project for 34 young people recovering from addictions. To provide them with tools that will make them protagonists of their own destiny.
Youstina: “The project was a success”
Youstina was the director of the project I, Ambassador of Peace. She is an Egyptian girl with a contagious smile. Taking on this role was a precious experience for her, with unexpected consequences.
Egypt, Peace as a life change
Since becoming Ambassador of Peace, Fibi Nabil has applied in her daily life the values underlying the AMU project: solidarity, respect for differences, dialogue with others. A great change in the lives of people and of Egyptian society itself
Svitlana’s new glasses
The war in Ukraine has abruptly interrupted the life of this math teacher, forced to live far from her city and her students. But even an eye exam can become a moment of hope to look more clearly to the future
Syria, generosity after the earthquake
Syria is a country already devastated by war and international sanctions. Yet many Syrians have built a solidarity network to be close to those displaced by the earthquake, supported by RISE, the program in which the Emergency Coordination of the Focolare Movement, AMU and AFN participate
Pakistan, a day in a medical camp
The medical camp – set up with funds raised by the Emergency Coordination of the Focolare Movement, AMU and AFN – carried out visits in a village heavily affected by floods. The flow of patients was non-stop throughout the day
The volunteers of Trentino Alto-Adige: a thread that does not break
Eighty women, aged 35 to 90, have been supporting AMU with continuous donations for over a decade. One of them, Annalisa, has also involved the company she works for
Support for the Ukrainian population. Updates
These are the latest updates we received from Mira, a Slovenian focolarina who lives in Ukraine and has been collaborating with Caritas-Spes Ukraine for some time. The numbers refer to the first months of 2023