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Document to facilitate the application of the Guide Lines

By Patricia P. de Nava and Marina Costa


AIC´s way of thinking has evolved constantly to adapt to the signs of the times. It has always followed its conducting line, in close relation with the first guidelines formulated by Saint Vincent de Paul in its time.
Ever since AIC´s world wide renewal of its organization in 1971, orientation has always been given to help volunteers to work more and more according to the needs of the poor. Since then, during the Assemblies of Delegates, regional plans have been elaborated. Those plans had, among other objectives, favoring a certain unity among the volunteers of one region, to reunite them around specific problems that affect the life of the underprivileged. After the meeting in Assisi, in 1990, it was decided to substitute regional projects by Guide Lines, internationally applicable, that would be valid action criteria by the volunteers of the most diverse cultures.


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