S. da Prov.le Lecce-Novoli 23/25
73100 Lecce LE
Italy
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- International/Cultural relations
- Religion
Fondazione Emmanuel, based in Lecce (Italy), is an expression of Comunità Emmanuel which, since 1980 has dealt with reception, accompaniment, and social inclusion of people in difficulty (migrants, unemployed, disabled people, minors, families, etc.).
All the initiatives developed during these years have as objective to promote solidarity, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, international cooperation, the non-violent solution to conflicts and Peace.
Our current team in Lecce is composed by 23 people employees and a group of volunteers. The team is composed by:
n.1 Legal Representative
n.1 General Secretary
n.1 administrative
n.1 educator/coordinator
n.1 junior project manager in development cooperation area n.5 intercultural/linguistic mediators
n.8 social-cultural operators
n.1 communication and project manager
n.1 psychologist
n.1 social worker and
n.2 employees in mission in Albania
Recognising diversity in today’s world is a wealth and poverty has multidimensional aspects, we believe and improve the “OSMOSIS process” as an interchange, inter-dialogue between the different cultural and religious nuances of people.
The institutional task is to encourage and support people from Southern Italy, Southern Europe, and Southern World, creating possibilities and providing the right tools for the self-empowerment. Together we will promote Social Justice, Charity, Human rights and Christian mercy, in response to the social inequalities that afflicts the world, with particular attention to migrants and other populations, near and far, that more suffer the imbalances of the planet.
We work through projects co-financed by public entity and private donors. Our projects aim to promote intercultural, interreligious, and inter-social dialogue and social participation on several levels.
At national level we are dealing with reception and social assistance of asylum seekers and the most vulnerable population groups, in order to promote social-occupational inclusion.
We foresee Inter-cultural Mediation actions between various actors of civil society (educational institutions, public and private entities, etc.) with particular attention to migrants.
Also, we act in Cooperation for development in Ecuador (city of Esmeraldas), Egypt and Albania, supporting actions and local projects aim to promote processes of self-empowerment, working in close cooperation with the various local partners.
Finally, the organization is dedicated to Erasmus Plus project (mobility and exchange of good practice between European organization).