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Our purpose is to reduce poverty, bring hope and solidarity to poor communities or individuals in France and worldwide. We bring assistance to families, children and young people but also to the most vulnerable (homelesses, migrants, prisoners etc.). We fight against isolation, help them to find employement and we ensure their social reintegration. We provide emergency responses but also long term support, development aid and we work on the causes of poverty. The action of Secours Catholique finds all its meaning in a global vision of poverty which aims at restoring the human person's dignity and is part and parcel of sustainable development. To do so, six key principles guide this action, both in France and abroad: Promoting the place and words of people living in situations of poverty Making each person a main player of their own development Joining forces with people living in situations of poverty Acting for the development of the human person in all its aspects Acting on the causes of poverty and exclusion Arousing solidarity The actions of Secours Catholique are implemented by a network of local teams of volunteers integrated into the diocesan delegations and supported by the volunteers and employees of the national headquarters. On an international level, Secours Catholique acts in cooperation with its partners of the Caritas Internationalis network. Key figures of Secours Catholique: 100 diocesan or departmental delegations 4,000 local teams 65,000 volunteers 974 employees 2,174 reception centres 3 centres : Cite Saint-Pierre in Lourdes, Maison d'Abraham in Jerusalem, Cedre in Paris 18 housing centres managed by the Association des Cites of Secours Catholique 162 Caritas Internationalis partners 600,000 donors Every year Secours Catholique encounters almost 700,000 situations of poverty and receives 1.6 million people (860,000 adults and 740,000 children). This daily mission led in the field by the local teams and delegations, with the support of national headquarters, pursues three major objectives which aim at exceeding the distribution action and limited aid: Receiving to reply to the primary needs (supplying food and/or health care aid, proposing accommodation, establishing an exchange and a fraternal dialogue, etc) Supporting to restore social ties (bringing together people in difficulty with an aim to reinsertion, encouraging personal initiatives and collective projects, establishing a mutual support helper-receiver of help relationship, etc) Developing to strengthen solidarity (proposing long lasting solutions, establishing a follow-up over the long term, encouraging collective actions carried out by people in difficulty etc.)

To produce a high-quality cultural magazine that can provide a source of legitimate income to those who need it. To reinsert socially and economically excluded sectors of the Mexico City population into society. We focus on particularly vulnerable sectors, such as: homeless, transgender, pensioners and refugees, since it's extremely difficult for them to acquire formal income opportunities. We place great emphasis on personal confidence and the development of social skills that are essential to the work place, through creative workshops.

Provide accompaniment and professional services to indigenous children, youth and women in Oaxaca, for the promotion, defense and full exercise of their rights.

Strengthen the capacities of persons, organizations and communities for the exercise of their rights and the Common Good, particularly in the state of Oaxaca. We want those who share a time of their lives with us, to witness the effect of the sessions, workshops, learning circles, encounters or other events we offer. We want these experiences to transcend in their community settings and provoke attitude changes in them. We want to see them and know them more secure, conscious, self-managed, healthy, fun, respectful, proactive and assertive.

Help people in vulnerable situations through community services for children, youth, adults and seniors in Mexico city and other states of the country, providing food, education, health, housing and clothing, through our social programs, so that the community can have a better life.

We are a Network of Mexican Women's organizations from Mexico and United States, united by the recognition of a shared indigenous heritage, searching to re-value and preserve our cultures through the construction of a system of fair commercial exchange.

To foster the local development -of the village Don Diego- with the involvement of the people,linking various sectors of society and other non governmental organizations in order to attract resources to raise the community standards of living

Clown Me In, known as Awrad Association, was created for the purpose of spreading laughter, providing relief to disadvantaged communities, addressing trauma, discrimination and environmental problems and abuses through clowning, laughter and social therapy workshops. We also aim to take the arts outside of the capital, giving disadvantaged and/or rural communities access to arts and culture. Clown Me In has worked around the world, in Mexican, Lebanese, Palestinian, Indian, Brazilian, Moroccan, Jordanian, Syrian, Greek and British communities.

To accompany communities in their social welfare and ecological regeneration initiatives in Oaxaca, the most culturally and biologically diverse state in Mexico, yet one of the poorest. Our work seeks new approaches to conservation and the recreation of alternative technologies, combining traditional wisdom and community organization with modern knowledge and techniques. We perform in a flexible and convival manner with community partners towards a better life in an harmonious coexistence with nature.

To promote an environment of collective life for students and volunteers natives and international, that take part with responsibility in the different social projects in Chiapas, through work, dependant on time, knowledge and skills, that add to the objective of achieving the strengthening of communities and access to a decent life as a fundamental human right.

To provide assitance and integral care for rheumatic patients that cannot afford their diagnosis and treatment and offer channels and community support to reincorporate them to a productive life.

We offer alternative education to the indigenous youth in the northern highlands of Puebla, so that they are able to build life projects worthy of their talents, interests , roots and knowledge