The area of Tehsil Qubo Saeed Khan Kachi Puli, in the district of Qamber Shahdadkot, was totally devastated by the floods. It is a territory of Pakistan far away and difficult to reach. But the support of the Emergency Coordination of the Focolare Movement, AMU and AFN has reached there: medicines and other essential goods have been distributed.
The Emergency Coordination of the Focolare Movement-AMU-AFN and Caritas Spes Ukraine have agreed to launch a second phase of emergency intervention in the war-stricken country.
In recent months, Pakistan has been devastated by floods that have caused deaths and destroyed many structures. We have moved immediately to ensure first aid and basic necessities.
It is not only the lack of means to satisfy physiological and primary needs that kills in Syria. Because of poverty, many people are forced to abandon therapies and not seek treatment, inevitably compromising their health and quality of life.
The Emergency Coordination of the Focolare Movement, with AMU and AFN, has decided to launch a fundraiser to support the populations overwhelmed by the flood in Pakistan. In the meantime, local communities are mobilizing in a race of solidarity with gestures large and small.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.