In these years - thank to long distance adoption - life of many
children has changed

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Edus Method and programs

1. CENTRALITY OF THE PERSON

The person is the center of any development program, the purpose of every project. This means first of all sharing needs to share the very meaning of life and to be moved by his/her destiny; failing this, the answer to needs becomes only a self-rewarding good action or a political strategy. However, all of this remains an abstract concept, unless the person is considered within the context of his/her primary and secondary relationships, i.e. family, local community, society.

2. STARTING FROM THE POSITIVE

 Every person, every community represents a potential resource, regardless of their vulnerability. This means valuing and strengthening all that has been made by people, their history, their existing relationships, in other words the social context and experiences representing their heritage. This basic operational principle originates from the positive approach to reality and helps the person to understand his/her own value and dignity and to take over responsibilities.

 3. DOING WITH

 A project dropped down from the top is either violent, because not shared, or not effective, because assistance-oriented. AVSI’s approach to project design and implementation is doing with people, i.e. starting from the relationship with the people the project is directed to, and building with them on the basis of their development path.

4. DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND SUBSIDIARITY

To foster and enhance the possibilities of aggregation, that is to acknowledge, value and promote the establishment of intermediate social groups and of a responsible and partaking social context . The right of every person to free association and also to economic enteprise becomes, through experience, a powerful changing agent.

A project is not “social” because “it works with the poor”, it is “social” because it gets together an existing reality considering all its development aspects : person, family, community. According to our experience, this is what we define capacity building.

 5. PARTNERSHIP

Partnership originates from the application of the principle of subsidiarity. Thus, starting from an existing subject, partnership implies the capacity of identifying and involving a growing number of actors – local administrations, social groups, international bodies - , each with different roles and functions, and all equally important, to further the goal of development.

DEVELOPMENT

Promote local human resources within educational and vocational training programs;
Promote local communities and institutions in order to develop structural interventions in both urban and rural environments;
Promote economical resources in order to create micro-enterprises which may produce income and employment.

 REHABILITATION

Rehabilitate structure and services already existing in post-emergency contexts and in countries with transition economy, through:
Reconstruction and revitalization interventions and technical consultancy in order to get them to work properly.

EMERGENCY

Basic medical aid in areas devastated by wars with special regard to mother and child problems, and to recover psychological stresses caused by war; distributions of survival goods, food or non food, granting equity and fairness;

DONATIONS ON-LINE:: In a few clicks you may make your donation with credit card addressed to  the displaced families in the defferent  areas  all over the world in the priority needs for housing, work, medical fees, and school attendance.

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