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).
Solidarity in video
Fondacio in Chile: Mi Proximo Project
Mi proximo is a solidarity program that helps people living in marginality, in extreme poverty, in a street situation. In Chile, 4.5% of the population lives in extreme poverty (Casen survey 2015). 12% live in a street situation (2nd national cadastre), 20% manage to get out of their street situation and reintegrate into society. Fondacio began supporting these people in 2006. In addition to seeking to support people living on the street with material aid, friendship and words of encouragement, Mi próximo wants to network organizations that work with people living on the street, through a WebApp. Thus, it aims to improve general services for people in street situations in Santiago.
A Hogar Mas Digno in Chile
Presentation of the Fondacio Un Hogar Mas Digno project in Chile! We build and improve houses for poor families in the northern municipalities of Santiago, Chile. This program supports families in an integral way by seeking to improve the living conditions of these homes.
KTO Documentary: Fondacio in the Philippines - Enchanted Farm Tour
KTO (French Christian Television). Fondacio in the Philippines: Enchanted Farm Tour
ANGE a Fondacio project in Togo
The "Friends for a New Generation of Children" in brief ANGE is a development NGO created in 2001 which aims to defend and promote the rights and interests of children. Children in street situations and those in conflict with the law are its main targets. For the effectiveness of its actions, the ANGE has two reception centers: "In my Father's house" in Lomé and "My Refuge" located 20 km from Lomé in the canton of Kpomé. A partner of the Togo State and national and international institutions on the theme of the child, the ANGE currently has four sub-projects, namely: The reception center "Dans la Maison de mon Père", located in Lomé, which offers a framework for welcoming and caring for children (accompaniment, accommodation, schooling, extracurricular activities) before their reintegration into families. The "Mon Refuge" reception centre, created in 2009 20 km from Lomé to deal with the repeated runaways of certain difficult cases. It serves as a living, lodging and lodging environment, away from the city of Lomé and its many temptations. An agro-pastoral farm, a restaurant and the proximity of the Sichem / Agro-DR training center allow young people to live and learn to facilitate their social reintegration. The catering activity and the sale of agricultural products are a source of income for the project, the production of which improves the food intake of all the children entrusted to ANGE. The street (the beach): street children who are on their own are used to coming to the beach to sleep and wash themselves. It is therefore a privileged place to strengthen them, create a bond of trust with them and help them understand the need to get off the streets, go back to school and learn a trade. Brigade of minors: there is only one prison for minors in Togo, in Lomé. The ANGE accompanies young detainees through socio-educational interviews, the improvement of detention conditions and various actions to facilitate post-incarceration reintegration (learning a trade, search for families of origin). Some young people are entrusted by the judge to the ANGE for care and socio-professional reintegration.
ANGE by Fondacio Construction of the reception center
The "Friends for a New Generation of Children" in brief ANGE is a development NGO created in 2001 which aims to defend and promote the rights and interests of children. Children in street situations and those in conflict with the law are its main targets. For the effectiveness of its actions, the ANGE has two reception centers: "In my Father's house" in Lomé and "My Refuge" located 20 km from Lomé in the canton of Kpomé. The "Mon Refuge" reception centre, created in 2009 20 km from Lomé to deal with the repeated runaways of certain difficult cases. It serves as a living, lodging and lodging environment, away from the city of Lomé and its many temptations. An agro-pastoral farm, a restaurant and the proximity of the Sichem / Agro-DR training center allow young people to live and learn to facilitate their social reintegration. The catering activity and the sale of agricultural products are a source of income for the project, the production of which improves the food intake of all the children entrusted to ANGE.
Fondacio in Togo: Jade for Life!
The JADE - For life! Since 2002 the association "Le JADE - Pour la Vie!" Contributes to the fight against HIV / AIDS in Togo. Togo remains the third most infected country in the sub-region. Many challenges remain, including scaling up prevention, comprehensive HIV care and governance. In 2017 Jade-For Life! transformed the CMS into a peripheral care unit (USP-Type II) offering general consultations, gynecology-obstetrics, an analysis laboratory and a pharmacy open to everyone. Within this new unit, the association continues its action with people living with HIV / AIDS, according to 3 axes: Prevention: particular emphasis has been placed in recent years on the prevention of young people (point of listening for young people, educational exhibition "Tent-Sex", training of peer educators among young people) Medical care: consultations and follow-up, provision of ARVs, assessments, analyzes Psychosocial care: visits, interviews, therapeutic education, discussion groups, specific support for children, nutritional, school, medical support, IGA program for women, etc.
