International Cooperation
Leo Foundation WorldwideOne of Leo Foundation’s key Missions focuses on the direct promotion of projects and actions in cooperation with associations, institutions and agencies located in Italy and in countries where the foundation is active with the aim to:
- promote sustainable development, peace, democracy, solidarity and justice amongst peoples also through upgraded standards of living as well as progress and economic and social development;
- protect each and everyone’s cultural identity without losing focus on interculturality so that, in addition to catering to primary needs, human, civil, political and social rights of populations will be entirely fulfilled, thus preventing and solving social clashes;
- promote the role of female population through the enhancement of women’s role and improvement of women’s conditions, thus resulting in elimination of any form of discrimination or exclusion;
- protect children’s and adolescents’ rights; to contribute to re-building, stabilize and develop processes under crisis and emergency situations by providing assistance to countries and populations stricken by natural disasters or human factor-induced events;
- preserve social-environmental balance by fighting bio-climatic and land degradation, also in the light to preserve and enhance cultural and environmental heritage.
Leofoundation collabora con:
- Moses Kazungu
This is an Association composed of local volunteers Leo Foundation works with to identify areas of intervention, to set priorities as well as to verify and check on the progress of local project implementation. The Association helps locate partners and identify potential public and private stakeholders to implement locally-funded projects.
Lucrezia FerrariFarm holiday house and cultural activity club promoting projects of interculturality with the aim to develop income-making farming operations that may promote local production and the establishment of local small enterprises dealing with organic farming and fair-trade tourism.
Padre AgapiusCamaldoli’s Friars Community is supporting several humanitarian missions in Africa. It operates in Kenya through Father Agapius Kamau, who is taking care of a community with more than 200 children (many of whom are orphans) and provides assistance, school and vocational training services. Long distance child adoption programs are available.