Our actions – Solidarity
Solidarity
Building a more humane and fairer world means working alongside the poorest and most vulnerable. With its partners, Fondacio implements development and solidarity projects (PDS), acting as closely as possible to local difficulties and offering solutions, care, rehabilitation programs, support, training, reintegration assistance, etc.
Combining commitment and meaning
Fondacio is involved in development and solidarity projects (PDS) whose objective is to give men and women in difficulty of all kinds the means to become actors in their lives, by promoting the development of their autonomy or helping them to rebuild.
Fondacio’s development and solidarity programs and projects are based on the search for personal autonomy, respect for local cultures and the principle of subsidiarity. Even if certain situations require urgent action, Fondacio’s action is based on the long term and therefore leaves a lot of room for the training of local players.
Solidarity in pictures
Being useful as close as possible to local problems
In some countries where Fondacio is established, the community encourages the participation of its members in solidarity development programs aimed at improving the living conditions of the most vulnerable. The projects respond to the specific needs of each region.
These programs are conducted by associations governed by local law and managed by local actors integrated into the socio-economic fabric. The projects are aimed at the entire population, without distinction of political or religious affiliation. They are conducted jointly with local civil and political structures.
Other solidarity actions are carried out outside these programs, as indicated below.
Engage Worldwide With Partners To Meet Many Challenges
Pour Fondacio, nouer des partenariats dans chaque région est
la garantie d’une intervention adaptée à chaque projet.
Ils permettent de créer des ponts entre les différents mondes,
d’apprendre les uns des autres, dans un esprit d’entraide et
de synergie de compétences et de moyens. Nos projets phares
travaillent avec des partenaires clés pour faire face à la diversité des défis.
Development and solidarity actions in Africa
Among these actions:
- ANGE: Giving a future to street children in Lomé, Togo.
- SICHEM: developing rural areas through vocational training and the creation of schools in the north of Lomé.
- LE JADE – FOR LIFE: fighting AIDS and providing support and social assistance in Lomé, Togo
- YOUNG DISCIPLES REVEALING TALENTS: offering young people a solid education to support their first steps in life: civic engagement, non-violence, fight against inappropriate behavior, in Benin.
- SO-ZOUNKO: literacy, tutoring and library projects in Benin.
- LPJ: education and training for young people and adults in Burkina Faso.
Development and solidarity actions in Asia
Among these actions:
- GREEN PASTURES: promoting rural development in Myanmar in a spirit of solidarity between families.
- YLDC (Youth Leadership and Development Center): developing entrepreneurship in solidarity projects for young people in Myanmar, Laos, the Philippines and Malaysia.
Development and solidarity actions in Latin America
Among these actions:
- OASIS: supporting the development of a slum in Colombia through an education, housing, health and environment plan.
- BIBLIOTECA LOS ALMENDROS: developing culture for all in a disadvantaged neighborhood of Santiago de Chile.
- UN HOGAR MS DIGNO: improving housing for the poorest in the most disadvantaged neighborhood of Santiago de Chile and restoring everyone’s dignity through social support.
Humanitarian and social actions in Europe
Among these actions:
- SITE CAMP: renovation work on a building with a team of people going through a difficult period and looking for a new lease of life.
- SOLIDARITY HOLIDAYS: offer a time of relaxation and conviviality to people in precarious situations, important moments for the reconstruction and reintegration of people.
- THE HERMITAGE: providing housing and brotherly support to people living on the streets.
- ROMANIA: assistance to isolated populations in a village in Romania (Dobraia).