Code

P024

Title of the project

Training and Suport of the Claretian Youth Communities of the Province of West Colombia

Location of the project

Medellín, Antioquia, COLOMBIA

Summary

General Objective:

Strengthen and make more dynamic the Juvenile Pastoral of the Claretian Province of West Colombia, through a process of accompanying and training of the various Youth Communities that will significantly contribute to living life with God and with the Church and to the transformation of the Colombian reality.

Specific objectives:

• To orient the youth towards the construction of projects for their lives that may affirm their personal identity and meaning of life itself, as well as foster and promote their family co-existence.
• To foster a progressive encounter with the reality of their communities of origin through  the exercise of their rights and duties as citizens.
• To strengthen inside the youth the knowledge and experience of God in their lives, the feeling of belonging to the Church and their missionary commitment to the service of evangelization.
• To facilitate the experience of community life in the faith, through the creation, integration and consolidation of the Claretian Youth Communities (Comunidades Juveniles) that make them feel integrated and appreciated.

Beneficiaries

Direct beneficiaries: a total of 1,000 youth who will attend the training courses;
Indirect beneficiaries: around 5,000 people constituting the families of the direct beneficiaries and another 500,000 people that are the local communities where the direct beneficiaries belong to.

Implementing agency

Youth Pastoral and Mission Procure of the Claretian Province of West Colombia

Duration

12 months

Total cost

164,400.00 €

Contribution sought

97,495.00 €