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.
The first skill needed by an entrepreneur is knowing how to manage the complexity of relationships: the entrepreneur is first and foremost a relationship builder …. What is the key feature of the entrepreneur? The anticipation. You have to see before the market where things are going… you have to listen to people, you have to read. The world changes everywhere: not only in the center, it also changes in the suburbs. The entrepreneur is driven by innovation, not by profit. The reward and the motive are not the same. The entrepreneur innovates by vocation, because entrepreneurs are like artists: inhabited by a demon that makes them restless. If they were driven by profit they would not be entrepreneurs, but speculators.”
