2018-08-17 GENERAL HOUSE

New president of FMSI

General councillor Br. Ken McDonald began his role as president of Marist International Solidarity Foundation (FMSI) on Aug. 1, substituting Brother Libardo Garzón.

“I expect an effective collaboration and an increasing support and synergy with the new general council,” Marzia Ventimiglia, FMSI director, told about the nomination of Br. Ken.

FMSI  is the foundation created by the Institute to promote and protect the rights of children. FMSI carries on its mission through the activity of advocacy and lobbyingand with projects in the countries in which the Marists are present.

FMSI was constituted in 2007 in Italy as a non-profit organization of social usefulness (ONLUS).

From 2011 it has the special consultative status before the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.

FMSI is member of: Bureau International Catholique de l’Enfance  (BICE), Centre Catholique International de Genève  (CCIG), Child Rights Connect, Movimiento Mundial por la Infancia de Latinoamérica y El Caribe, FOCSIV  (Federazione degli Organismi Cristiani Servizio Internazionale Volontario), Observatorio Niñez y Adolescencia  (ONA), Santiago de Chile.

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