AMU anti-poverty projects
Businesses that join the EoC share their annual profits for three purposes: development projects and assistance for people in need, training in the culture of giving, and business consolidation and growth.
For the first of these purposes, EoC collaborates closely with AMU - Azione per un Mondo Unito ONLUS,
which manages part of the profits pooled by the companies to implement development projects that restore employment and dignity to people in socially and economically vulnerable conditions.
Together we develop and implement projects to start and consolidate productive activities with a high social impact that create new employment for people in vulnerable conditions. In this way, people who would otherwise depend on outside help have the opportunity to improve and enhance their work skills, getting to earn through their work the right compensation that allows them and their families to live with dignity.
Projects always start from the proposals of our local partner associations that, inspired by EoC values, work closely with situations of misery around the world.
The experience gained in the field and the values at the basis of our work have allowed us to develop in recent years what we call "development of communion": a perspective of development based on the ability of each person to give something of themselves and of the goods at their disposal, even in conditions of serious need. This is why in each project we provide specific forms and tools to implement the reciprocity of the gift, a sign of protagonism on the part of the people involved and a guarantee of a genuine path to integral human development.
Below are the projects currently underway:
- Social and labor inclusion program in Italy "Fare Sistema oltre l'Accoglienza"
- Burundi - It can be done! - Community Microcredit and Microfinance
- Ecuador - Sunrise +
- Cuba - Development of the EoC and boosting the Economy of Francis in Cuba
- Syria - RestarT - Starting Over to Remain
It is possible to contribute to ongoing projects by visiting the appropriate AMU web page (https://www.amu-it.eu/how-to-help-us/dona-ora-2/?lang=en) and sending a contribution, indicating one of these projects in the reason for the contribution.
Social Report
In June 2023 AMU published the Social Report 2022, the tool that aims to communicate with incisiveness and sincerity the life of the 'association, the commitment of members and collaborators, the impacts of its work, but above all to keep alive and spread the tension toward a United World.
Collaboration with AMU
The Action for a United World Non-Profit Association (AMU in its Italian acronym) was founded in 1986 with the goal of promoting cooperation projects in developing countries and spread the culture of dialogue and unity between peoples everywhere. Inspired by the value of universal fraternity, on which the experience of the Focolare Movement is founded, AMU commits itself to bringing about sustainable activities that set the stage for effective development. Whether in dealing with the local social, cultural or economic realities, the association works together with the populations involved in a spirit of dialogue and reciprocal listening. Until now, the interventions begun in various countries of Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe regard professional formation, agricultural and artisan development, the cure and prevention of diseases, basic education, support to basic necessities (housing, food, healthcare) and other social development and formational activities.
