2nd Assembly of the Marist International Solidarity Network

The opening meeting of the 2nd Assembly of the Marist International Solidarity Network took place on February 1, 2022. In December the regional meetings were initiated leading up to this first meeting. The meeting has been online.

The first assembly was held in January 2018. In October 2020, the Secretariat of Solidarity of the Institute took up the reflection about the Network, how to adapt it to the Solidarity Secretariat. The Executive Committee of the Network has been working towards the realization of this second Assembly. This Committee is made up of Rebecca Bromhead (Australia), Mark Potterton (South Africa), Socorro Alvarez (Mexico), and Brothers Vicente Falchetto (Brazil), Henry Uzor (Nigeria) and Javier Salazar (Spain), together with the directors of the Secretariat of Solidarity, Brothers Francis Lukong and Ángel Diego Garcia Otaola.

The general objective of this 2nd Assembly is to resume the meetings of the Marist International Solidarity Network and its actions of animation and coordination of the different areas of Marist solidarity. In addition to this general objective, there are other specific objectives: to get to know and share life; to commit ourselves to work in the Network; to initiate the Thematic Groups and the Approval of the Constitutive Documents of the Network.

All the provincial delegates of the 5 Working Groups (Children’s Rights, Education in Solidarity, NGOs/Foundations, Ecology and Social Works) were invited to the Assembly, as well as representatives of other organizations such as SED, FMSI, CMI and UMBRASIL. Since the Assembly was held “online”, participation was open to all those persons of the Institute who are working in any of the areas included in the 5 Thematic Groups. There were more than 80 participants.

The group will now continue working until February 16, when the Assembly will be closed.