Support bank project

The founding members of the Support Bank back in 1991.

The founding members of the Support Bank back in 1991.

From left to right: Rev. Baltazar OMI, pastor, Wilfrid Joachin, Joseph Filusma, Génita Simoncoeur. Sr. Altagrâc, Étienne AMI, Sr. Agnès Lardanchet AMI

This project is designed to help the neediest people in the community. In the township of Mont-Organisé and its surroundings, there are groups of the Focolare Movement that meet regularly. They are the Word of Life groups.

Presently there are 26 such groups with a total of 980 participants, mostly youth. They discovered that there are people that are completely destitute in their communities, old and sick with nobody to care for them, or families where people are literally starving. Those who do not live in a town or village, live in huts scattered throughout the countryside, not always easily accessible.

The groups of the Focolare looked into this situation and are now in contact with 125 of these destitute and abandoned people. They support them out of their own resources and money, but most often by spending time with them wherever they live, to bring them to the hospital, to feed them, to clean them and to serve them in other concrete ways.