To keep Leo Andringa's memory alive, who was among the first ones to grasp the delicacy of the aid distribution process to the needy, the EoC has decided that the newly-formed "Leo Andringa Observatory of Poverty” (Osservatorio sulla povertà Leo Andringa; OPLA) with its headquarters at the Lionello Business Park (Polo Lionello Bonfanti) would be named after him..
OPLA has as its goal to collect the "best practices" (in and outside of the EoC) in fighting poverty, by developing an approach inspired by the values of communion and reciprocity.
Headquarters: Polo Lionello Bonfanti - Loc Burchio snc, 50064 Figline e Incisa Valdarno (FI)
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The Sunrise+ project is the natural evolution of Sunrise, the AMU-EoC post-earthquake rehabilitation project that has been already concluded
Source: AMU
Muisne Canton, Ecuador - also known as the...
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Roland is one of the protagonists of the Amu-Edc RestarT project, ‘Restart to stay’, who has discovered the power of reciprocity
source: AMU
Ramouseh is a large suburb of Aleppo, Syria,...
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#OPLAStories - ‘We are here for you, you are not alone’: when community involvement leads to unexpected outcomes
by Tainã Santana from the OPLA Team
It's a cold Sunday morning in Skopje,...
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In Cuba, the AMU-EoC project supporting small entrepreneurial initiatives is starting to bear fruit. The project is now complete: the case of the Caminitos de Ternura Kindergarten with its ‘School...
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“Generators” of communion: the OPLA 2024 Report is out!
by Tainã Santana per OPLA Team
There continue to be many situations of global pain, many of which are now forgotten. Driven by the media,...
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#OPLAStories – In a small mountain village in southern Colombia, a family finds a way to improve their economic situation by serving the community and creating communion
by Tainã Santana from the...
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#OPLAStories - Juliette discovers her vocation as a midwife to deliver babies, and a new world
by Tainã Santana on behalf of the OPLA Team
We are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the...
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#OPLAStories - The two stories we are passing on to you today tell about dreams, dignity, trust and communion, featuring two young people from Burundi and Cameroon, respectively
by Tainã Santana on...
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#OPLAStories - From Colombia, Elizabeth's story provides us good reason for one of the most important criteria of the EoC's anti-poverty initiatives, starting with communion.
Tainã Santana from the...
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#OPLAStories - The thank you notes of two young people, Muhindo and Daniela reached us from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Tainã Santana of the OPLA Team
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...
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#OPLAStories - The first echo of the EoC 2023 projects comes from Angela from the Philippines who, thanks to the support of the EoC, was able to complete her studies to become a radiology...
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From the OPLA Team, here’s a report on the work done in 2023, the first year in which the new criteria for EoC aid management were adopted
by the OPLA team*
In 2023, the world was undoubtedly...
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After focusing for six instalments under the OPLA column on the new criteria adopted by the EoC to find new ways out of poverty, today we report on a practical example of such an approach showing...
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The fifth instalment of the column by the Leo Andringa Observatory of Poverty explains the fourth criterion that characterises the current EoC approach to promoting, implementing and evaluating...
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The fourth instalment of the column by the Leo Andringa Observatory of Poverty explains the third criterion that characterises the current EoC approach to promoting, implementing and evaluating...
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The third instalment of the column by the Leo Andringa Observatory of Poverty explains the second criterion that characterises the current EoC approach to promoting, implementing and evaluating...
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The second instalment of the column by the Leo Andringa Observatory of Poverty explains the first criterion that characterises the current approach adopted by the EoC to promote, implement and...
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Today marks the start of a column by the Leo Andringa Observatory of Poverty that will inform us on a monthly basis about the current approach adopted by the EoC to promote, implement and evaluate...
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On the occasion of the 31-year anniversary of the Economy of Communion, the 1st Newsletter of the Leo Andringa Poverty Observatory has been published
by Antonella Ferrucci
What specific...
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The ATD Fourth World report on the hidden dimensions of poverty is based on the intersection of the knowledge from those who have known poverty and experienced it first hand, and the knowledge of...
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