The largest health care center in the country. It has sixty employees and 4 Fidesco volunteers. Every year, over 100,000 people receive care and medicine. The price, at $1.30 for the consultation, all included, is accessible even to the poorest. What is on the horizon. The maximum capacity for the Maternity Center has been […]
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Fidesco – Catholic Organization for International Solidarity
Fidesco is an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that recruits and trains volunteers before sending them for two year missions in under-served areas of the world. The volunteers make their professional and personal skills available to the needy through humanitarian and development projects.
In 1980 in Rome, African bishops met members of the Emmanuel Community and gave them a challenge: “We need young people coming in the name of their faith to support us in our development projects and offer assistance to our local population. Come join us!”
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Fighting for prisoners in DR Congo
A team of volunteers go to the central prison in Kinshasa to meet with about a dozen prisoners a week. While there, they not only offers legal advice, but also help them with the psychological support they need to deal with the hostile conditions. BAJPD lawyers (4 in Kinshasa, and 2 in Lubumbashi) then handle […]
Farmschool in Indonesia
1999 – the beginning. To support the social and family network in the countryside, the bishop of Manado asked Fidesco in 1999 to participate in a project to process fruit. In 2007, a new directive was given: to open a “farm school” in the village of Lotta. The objectives are to help farmers and their […]
TESTIMONIESof Fidesco volunteers
During my Big Night in the past few months, I’ve witnessed heartbreaking and dark places, but ...
Philippines, Quezon City
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This webinar will be conducted by Karel Dekempe in Germany. The two topics to be discussed are: “What is Fidesco?” and “Discerning a departure”. It will last for 90 minutes. To register, send an email with your name to: webinarfidesco@yahoo.de
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The dates are set for this invitation only gathering outside New York City. Send in your application now so that you may be included in this time of discerning one’s call to work with the poor at a Fidesco project site abroad.
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Louis and Heidi will be serving orphans in Concepcion, Chile for the next two years. Taking their children on such a mission has been a desire that they have nurtured for many years and their support base extends to the United States. Their work will be to create workshops for children as well as fundraising […]
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When 85 volunteers gathered for the final training session in France, all of the staff was present as well as many former volunteers and country coorespondants. Bishop Emmanuel Gobilliard, auxiliary bishop from Lyons, France, is the spiritual godfather of this group. In addition to the French nationals, volunteers from the Netherlands, Portugual, Germany and Poland […]
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New volunteers: Dominic and Margaret with children Patrick and Caroline. Siloe Centre for the Blind, Limpopo, South Africa Our mission will be serving at the Siloe Centre for the Blind (http://www.siloecentre.co.za). It is a school and vocational center operated by a Polish congregation: the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross. Some of the students at […]
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As 2016 is just starting, I was looking back at the past year and all that happened for Fidesco USA. It started with a weekend of discernment and preparation for candidates in January in Larchmont near New York. After additional training in the spring, all candidates joined the worldwide training in Paray Le Monial (France) […]
Webinar November 27 at 2pm EST
This webinar will be conducted by Karel Dekempe in Germany. The two topics to be discussed are: ...
The dates are set for this invitation only gathering outside New York City. Send in your ...
Heidi and Louis Hauguel go to Chile
Louis and Heidi will be serving orphans in Concepcion, Chile for the next two years. Taking their ...
Medical care for Guinea’s poor
Guinea, Conakry
Fighting for prisoners in DR Congo
Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo, Kinshasa
Indonesia, Lotta
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2020 Discernment Weekend
March 13, 2020The dates are set for this invitation only gathering outside New York City. Send in your application now so that you may be included in this time of discerning your call to work with the poor at a Fidesco project site abroad.
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November 27, 2019This webinar will be conducted by Karel Dekempe in Germany. The two topics to be discussed are: “What is Fidesco?” and “Discerning a departure”. It will last for 90 minutes. To register, send an email with your name to: webinarfidesco@yahoo.de
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During my Big Night in the past few months, I’ve witnessed heartbreaking and dark places, but ...
Katie and Luke Johnstone - Philippines