Work
In countries with greater economic difficulties, addressing people and communities in situations of vulnerability, AMU offers income generation programs based on the capabilities and aspirations of the direct protagonists.
AMU seeks to build, through collaboration with local partners, programs and interventions so that each individual can find their own way through a dignified, safe and fair-wage work activity (as an employee or small business owner).
Since its inception and especially in the last 10 years with the collaboration of Economy of Communion companies, we have developed specific methodologies and tools for the creation of dignified and inclusive work.
All this is possible thanks to intervention programs to strengthen professional skills, guide job placement, find financial opportunities for new businesses and accompany new entrepreneurs on their initial journey.
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Ecuador – Sunrise+
In the province of Esmeraldas, one of the regions with the highest poverty rate in the country, AMU has chosen to create a professional training program - especially for young people - and conservation of natural resources; so as to promote eco-sustainable job opportunities and entrepreneurship and fight the ecological damage that is increasing the social vulnerability of these populations.- €83.697Raised
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Democratic Republic of Congo – UNO Financial Cooperative
With this project we want to support the training of operators and managers of the nascent savings and credit cooperative, members of microcredit groups and their work to support new groups during 2024.- €19.173Raised
Health
There can be no development, peace and social justice until the fundamental rights of the individual are guaranteed; first and foremost, those of living in good health and being able to count on adequate and sufficient nutrition.
AMU supports, through constant collaboration with local institutions and associations, programs that concern both the creation of infrastructures to guarantee a good quality of life (such as projects for the construction of aqueducts and sanitation services to guarantee access to drinking water) and awareness and training courses for communities on: correct nutrition, personal and local hygiene, personal care and attention to one’s health.
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SOSTENIAMOLibano
The precariousness in which the Lebanese population lives makes daily life difficult. The SOSTENIAMOLibano project supports medical care for the population of different areas of Lebanon: Sidon (south of Lebanon), Beirut, Metn and Kesrouan (north of Beirut), Zahle (east of Lebanon). Ensuring coverage of medical expenses gives people hope and support.- €1.415Raised
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Water source of life and development in Cibitoke
The Water Source of Life and Development project in Cibitoke opens a new phase in providing access to drinking water and basic sanitation in the municipalities of Mugina and Rugombo in Cibitoke province.- €30.694Raised
Education
To support the growth, awareness and self-determination paths of each person, AMU focuses on study assistance and professional training programs.
Over the years, AMU has carried out projects to ensure school attendance and combat the dropout rate among those young people who, in very difficult situations, would not have been able to afford it.
Being able to support a girl or a boy in their educational path means supporting them in the free and conscious construction of their own future, offering them assistance in the most delicate moments and providing the right support to make the most important choices.
Our commitment in this field ranges from the programs for deaf-mute children at the EHIS school in Syria, to the scholarships funded over the years with the “Brotherhood with Africa” program, to the job training courses that AMU promotes and supports throughout the world.
Emergency
The outbreak of a war, an epidemic, an environmental disaster can bring entire populations to their knees and make their effects felt in the immediate and long term.
AMU has always been involved in the management of humanitarian emergencies through first aid programs for families: from direct economic support to psychological and social support and assistance. In collaboration with NGOs, associations or with local Focolare Movement representatives, AMU manages first emergency interventions, always taking into account the needs and real requirements of the affected populations, and considering possible developments from the start to set up recovery and reconstruction programs.
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Flood emergency in Brazil
Together with the Emergency Coordination of the Focolare Movement and Action for New Families ONLUS (AFN), we have launched an extraordinary fundraiser to support the population of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil.- €16.391Raised
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Middle East Emergency
As the situation in the Middle East continues to worsen, the Emergency Coordination of the Focolare Movement, AMU and AFN confirm their closeness to the affected populations and continue to work to alleviate the many sufferings by trying to offer, to the extent possible, what is necessary to survive and return to a dignified life.- €94.455Raised
Your fundraising campaign
Want to make an event in your life special? Make it a “charity event”…
…and make a donation to AMU projects to remember that day. Ask your friends to donate your gift to an AMU project: it will be a new way to experience solidarity and friendship.
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Any occasion is good to start a solidarity campaign such as a birthday or a wedding.
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