SOCIAL INITIATIVES
2010/01/02
Flowers for Madrid
"La Veguilla" is an extensive greenhouse in Madrid that employs 150 people, most of whom are mentally handicapped. Many consider this nursery one of the best in Spain. 2009/08/26
The Joy of Giving to Those Who Cannot Give Back
High School girls from around the U.S. dedicated part of their summer to volunteering at community service projects in Boston while living at the Bayridge University Residence. 2009/04/01
No One To Turn To
Anna Mestre runs ADAIA, an association in Catalonia, Spain, that helps immigrant women adapt to their new country. 2009/01/15
“Two Plus Two Plus God”
Abel Albino is a doctor and founder of CONIN (Cooperative for Infant Nutrition) in Argentina. He often remembers St. Josemaría’s words: “Two plus two is four, but two plus two plus God…” 2007/11/16
Sailors in solidarity
My name is Hector. I’m stationed on a frigate in the Spanish Navy, and am a member of Opus Dei. When I found out that we would be conducting maneuvers in the Red Sea with a four-day stopover in one of the poorest countries in the world, a group of us officers decided to try to do what we could to help out. 2007/10/13
Thirty Years of Hospitality at Lexington College
Lexington College in Chicago celebrates its 30th anniversary by inaugurating a new program that will expand its hospitality training to the area of Health Care and Wellness. 2007/10/05
Harambee inaugurates Four New Projects for Africa
VIDEO: St. Josemaría’s canonization in 2002 left its mark on Africa, when persons from all over the world donated more than one million euros. With these, Harambee was able to fund 24 projects. Now, five years later, it is undertaking four more projects which are here briefly described. 2007/07/24
20,000 Peruvian women trained for jobs at Condoray
For over 40 years Condoray has been providing job training for women who have no resources of their own. An interview with the program's assistant director. 2007/03/21
Kenya: Training of trainers
In Kenya, university students are trained so that they in turn can train rural women who lack business skills, to engage in income-generating activities, to start and run their own micro businesses. 2006/11/13
Tsunami relief work in Sri Lanka
A volunteer project in Matara, Sri Lanka in July 2006 offered Jenny and 11 other girls a chance to make a difference for tsunami victims with their time and effort. 2006/09/11
International Group of Students Build an Orphanage in Mae Sot, Thailand
Twenty students from Taiwan, Indonesia and Singapore spend their holidays serving orphans. 2006/08/31
Australian and New Zealand students refurbish school in Fiji
In July a team of 22 men from Australia and New Zealand travelled to the Fijian village of Navunibitu to carry out urgent maintenance and painting in a school. The project was an annual “workcamp” organized by Warrane College. The pastoral care of Warrane College, a university residence of UNSW, is entrusted to Opus Dei. 2006/08/16
Dubbo Service Project
For the fourth year in a row, Creston College’s service project allowed twenty students from the Universities of New South Wales, Sydney and Technology the opportunity to touch some hearts – both young and old – in the western NSW town of Dubbo. 2006/07/12
Reaching out to "God's favorites"
The Family Cooperation Health Services Foundation has primary health-care programs in Las Piñas and Muntinlupa. The program includes classes for barangay health workers and mothers. The foundation holds medical-dental missions monthly. 2006/06/20
ReachOut! in inner city Manchester
University Students have been working for ten years now, in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Manchester. The project consists of several educational programmes of a voluntary nature. 2006/06/18
Cooperation in Health Care: Austral University (Argentina)
The University Hospital has been promoting health care and medical research since it was established by Opus Dei in Buenos Aires six years ago. Its clinic is open to all, whether they have the means to pay or not. 2006/05/19
Spirit behind efforts to help the less fortunate
Punlaan School and Talon Family Farm School help to uplift the living standards of the students and their families, always guided by Christian values. 2006/03/09
Holistic Rural Education
The Family Farm School system in the Philippines, established by members of Opus Dei, can be the answer to the problem of underdevelopment in the Philippine rural areas. 2006/02/20
Harambee 2006 presentation in Rome
"All together for Africa" is the motto of "Harambee," a solidarity project begun in 2002 to commemorate the canonization of the founder of Opus Dei. On February 13, Harambee announced four new African development initiatives. 2005/12/11
"Development is not studied; it is achieved through personal commitment."
Women members of Opus Dei began "Kimbondo," a social action program on the outskirts of Kinshasa, Congo. 
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