Its concrete role

  • It is a presence in the field
    • The teams are made up solely of local volunteers responding to the needs expressed on the spot by disadvantaged people
    • These teams initiate projects based on local reality, enabling the poorest of the poor to draw up projects which involve them and to implement them
  • It heightens public awareness
    • To the growing problems of social exclusion,
    • By questioning international civil and church authorities about human rights violations, the problems of excluded people, of women and the family in the society of today
  • It trains volunteers on a permanent basis to develop their skills by emphasising:
    • The multidimensionality of the causes and effects of poverty
    • The participation and empowerment of the beneficiaries
    • Partnership, social co-responsibility and working in networks