Comitato di Collegamento di Cattolici per una Civiltà dell'Amore

The task of the Association is to promote development projects in developing countries, through awareness campaigns and public events and mainly operates on two levels: one that involves the realization of micro-projects and the second concerning interventions of greater size as the launch of microenterprises in Africa and in particular in the Sahel region.
MICROPROJECTS
Through national media campaigns (for example Campaign "Against Hunger Change Life" and "Adopt a dad in the South of the World", already launched by Pope John Paul II In the angelus of 18 March 2001) the association works with the Missionary Institutes present in more than 40 poor countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Haiti, India and Peru, for the promotion of projects of distance adoptions . These initiatives aim to create job opportunities locally, with pay, for poor householders.
MICRO-ENTERPRISES
This program was started in 2002 and aims to support the creation of a micro-business background in poor countries, through an action of participatory planning and training in the laboratory made possible by collaboration between lenders, missionary world and small Italian enterprises.
Since 2007, the Committee works with the John Paul II for the Sahel Foundation, established in Burkina Faso under the auspices of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", which aims to promote projects of human, social and economic development in the nine countries of the Sahel.
The projects are based on the full involvement of small and medium-sized European companies - through the creation of medium and long term partnership with the operators in developing countries, providing in particular the provision of know-how and technology and the training of local staff. In this way one can increase their level of internationalization and contribute in some way to the reduction of the phenomenon of unemployment in Europe, particularly serious in the present economic situation.
What we expect to achieve is, an ethical approach to the African Continent, by many defined “the Continent of the Future”; helping European companies to grow in the African market while accompanying the growth of the African market itself. In particular, the aim is to give rise to an virtuous internationalization, so that it may be true development cooperation in terms of training of local staff, transfer of production know-how and technology in particular.