Comunità di S.Egidio-ACAP
Piazza di S.Egidio 3/a
Roma
Italy
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
Mission: implementation of the humanitarian activities of the Community of Sant'Egidio.
Friendship among people of different nations and cultures is the everyday way to express this international fraternity. In a world which, at the end of the second millennium is raising barriers and emphasising national and cultural differences so much that they become the cause of old and new conflicts, the communities of Sant'Egidio testify to the existence of a common destiny not only for Christians, but for everybody. All the services of the Community of Sant’Egidio are services to reconciliation and peace. Thus the emphasise on peace that is common to all the services of the Community. “Nobody is ever so poor not to be able to help another”: this principle inspires great part of the humanitarian work of the Community of Sant'Egidio, that promotes a culture of solidarity wherever it operates.
* educational work with children (Schools of Peace)
* solidarity with the old people
* friendship for people with disabilities (handicap)
* centres and language schools for immigrants
* social and cultural activities for the Gypsies (services of care to minors, health care and legal assistance)
* care for the homeless (soup-kitchens, “roaming dinner", distribution of clothes)
* humanize the conditions of the detention places in thew world (regular contacts with inmates, psychological support, legal and administrative counsel and rehabilitation programs)
* facilitating dialogue, peace and reconciliation
* solidarity and humanitarian aid to the civilian populations who suffer most from war.
* ecumenical and interfaith dialogue. Since 1987 Sant'Egidio has been committed both at the grass-roots and the international level to arrange annual meetings, conferences and prayer gatherings, in the "Spirit of Assisi".