€15,000! This is the amount raised by the solidarity sale of artwork organised online this summer to support Emmaus International.
Emmaus Europe and Emmaus International express their solidarity with all the victims of the fires in the Moria camp on the Island of Lesbos. It is yet another trauma on the difficult path from exile to an asylum that Europe is doing everything to avoid giving them.
In September 1999, the General Assembly of Emmaus International met in Orleans, France. During this event, Emmaus also celebrated the movement’s 50th anniversary under the theme “Emmaus, we can change the world”. On this occasion, assembly participants released a message “against the globalisation of poverty”, calling on each individual around the globe to be responsible in fighting against the causes of poverty and helping the most excluded.
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Percy Vargas, National Director of Emmaus Peru and manager of the Emmaus San Agustin group, discusses the reasons why his country has not managed to emerge from this health crisis. He provides analysis which could be applied to other countries in the region.
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María Cristina de Urquiza, National Director of Emmaus Argentina and Director of the “Casa del Niño” at Emmaus Burzaco seriously and accurately depicts the inequality that exists between social classes in her country and describes the feelings of the population during lockdown.
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