ECONOMY OF COMMUNION
The “Economy of Communion” (EoC) project, started in 1991 in Brazil, promotes the formation of businesses organized to help alleviate poverty by their voluntarily giving a sizable portion of their profits to the poor and by spreading a culture of giving.Because of this project, four industrial parks now operate in Brazil (foto: Polo Spartaco), Italy, Argentina, and Portugal.
Today, 756 businesses in 38 countries adhere to the EoC Project. Their shared profits help 7,000 families, mainly in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, to meet their basic needs of food, shelter, jobs and education.
Consortium
 In Italy, the EoC motivated three of its members to form the Tassano Consortium that employs over 1,000 people. Twenty percent of the workers have either physical or mental limitations or come from difficult social situations including drug addiction and imprisonment.[more] |
Solidarity
 In Maranao, Brazil, farmers who once struggled for survival as individuals, through the advice of a social worker on living in brotherhood now produce a surplus by farming together. |
Bangko Kabayan
 One of the first Economy of Communion businesses is a rural bank in the Philippines with a successful micro-credit program. |
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