Unfortunately our AIC International Assembly of Delegates 2020, due to be held from 17th-20th March 2020 in Bogotá, Colombia, had to be cancelled because of the current pandemic, like so many other meetings. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the many people who had been involved for months and months in the […]
On the invitation of the Secretariat of the Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs (Forum of Rome), Isabelle Chaperon, AIC representative at UNESCO and the CCIC (the International Catholic Centre of Cooperation with UNESCO, the platform of Catholic NGOs active within UNESCO), and Christine Roche, President of the CCIC, participated in a meeting on the topics selected ahead of […]
As members of the Vincentian Family (VF) from all over the world, we express our concern and our solidarity in the face of the dramatic situation Venezuelans are experiencing in their country. We are aware of the painful situation of injustice and suffering of the Venezuelan people due to the lack of what is necessary […]
The FamVin Homeless Alliance has launched a campaign called “13 Houses”, which aims to reduce and, where possible, end all forms of homelessness in the countries in which the Vincentian Family works. AIC is involved in 13 Houses initiatives in Guatemala and Mexico. — Guatemala: Welcome Home Project In Guatemala, AIC is one of five […]
Giving the floor to girls – this was what 30 NGOs working with UNESCO, including AIC, wanted to do in order to celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child at the UNESCO headquarters, to make sure that this day was truly dedicated to celebrating them. In order to prepare this day, AIC participated in […]
Anne Bemmo, AIC Coordinator for Africa, and Agnès Dandois, Treasurer of AIC Solidarité, recently visited AIC-Madagascar to discover the association’s activities. In a country suffering from a lack of infrastructure and a difficult climate, the volunteers do all they can to fight against poverty and strengthen the level of education of the population. AIC-Madagascar was […]
Thanks to all the AIC volunteers who sent their activities in the field of sustainable development. We were very happy to receive 19 projects from 12 different countries on 4 continents. And the winners are: BRAZIL, Curitiba: Community Vegetable Garden – The objective is to rehabilitate empty land used by criminals for illicit trafficking to […]
Is it possible to change our perspective on human migration and see it as an opportunity for everyone, and not as a danger? Around sixty NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO, including AIC, supported by experts, reflected on this question on 26th and 27th September in Tunis at the 9th International Forum of NGOs. The […]
With blankets, pillows, cuddly toys and bathrobes about 60 volunteers from CKD/AIC-Germany in the archdiocese of Paderborn settled on their beds in front of the Paderborn town hall in a protest action aiming to draw attention to the housing shortage in Germany. The association, which has around 17,000 volunteers in the archdiocese, calls for significantly […]
AIC International is an ECOSOC-recognized Catholic NGO at the UN. At the UN in New York, for nearly two decades we have fought the feminization of poverty with a small group of volunteer representatives. For anyone who has engaged in this work, it is obvious that one cannot keep pace with the proliferation of ubiquitous […]
