Social changes and new forms of solidarity - Page 2

In contrast to Black Friday on Friday, November 29th, and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday will be celebrated on December 3rd. A spontaneous movement, 100% free and collaborative, Giving Tuesday allows individuals, organizations, media, companies and associations around the world to meet around a common goal

At a time when the associative sector is wondering about the means to be implemented to perpetuate its action, while public authorities are restructuring the levers of generosity, and faced with the principles of transparency demanded by citizens, the Observatory of Donation in Trust reveals, through a study carried out by

How can we raise awareness of the world's great humanitarian causes? Raising funds is an issue in the field of humanitarianism and global citizenship. The NGO Action Against Hunger has just acquired a state-of-the-art technology, virtual reality (VR), with the aim of engaging donors and partners in a different way in order to ensure that

Waste, long accepted as inevitable, is now being pointed at, and many initiatives are emerging to try to remedy it. Such as the Ammareal platform, whose credo is the solidarity book. It includes all the books in good condition, including libraries and associations.

The social integration of refugees is a major challenge: learning French, vocational training, community life, etc. According to the latest figures from INSEE, among the foreigners who immigrated to France in 2017, the most numerous are Africans (36 %), almost on a par with the citizens of other countries in the world.

The demand for solidarity, in all our societies, remains the strongest of our needs, as well as one of the most difficult to satisfy! For compassionate forms of solidarity alone no longer meet the needs of our contemporaries, who are eager to take on the responsibility of being a part of the world.

On 15 March 2019, another attack killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which was broadcast live for nearly 20 minutes on Facebook. A terrorism imbued with the rhetoric of the far right online, which chooses social networks to create a buzz. To fight against

Deciding to reconcile contradictions, to bring opposing actors into dialogue and to find multidisciplinary solutions to the inextricable paradoxes of our complexity becomes an ethical imperative for a successful transition of civilization. Indeed, in the age of the anthropocene, our decisions now have an impact on the whole world, all of us, and the world as a whole.

75 % of jobs today require mastery of digital skills. Job seekers are therefore not all equal when it comes to finding a job. On Wednesday 13 March, Emmaus Connect inaugurated its 12th digital solidarity space in France in Strasbourg, in the presence of Mounir Mahjoubi, Emmaus' Secretary General.

We weren't used to seeing pensioners demonstrating, making claims, yet they were there, wearing grey jackets to carry their message. What happened? Why this intrusion into an area of demands traditionally reserved for working people? A look back at the emergence of a new senior consciousness, silver culture, the avant-garde.

Some 8.8 million people are currently in "monetary poverty" (INSEE study), i.e. they live on less than 1,000 euros per month of income, i.e. 14 % of the French population. And the number of poor people increased by one million between 2005 and 2015. Which are

On the occasion of the World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty on 17 October, and as we prepare to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ATD Fourth World and its partners call for action to ensure that fundamental rights - access to

In the face of the many ecological, economic and societal uncertainties, our societies need a "landscape of desire" - in the words of Ernst Bloch - and new opportunities to project themselves into the future and take new paths. An ecological and social transformation of our society is already largely at work in the following areas

Migrants, climatic, economic, political, is it possible to talk about them with lucidity and calm in order to reach peaceful answers? We have, with the values of our Republic, the resources to integrate differences and co-construct tomorrow in peace and lucidity. Let us become an example of societal innovation for the world.  

Aujourd’hui nous avons du mal à imaginer notre futur, car tous les clignotants climatiques sont au rouge et conduisent plutôt à penser l’effondrement qu’à voir les opportunités de résilience. Pourtant, la biologie nous dit que c’est principalement en période difficile que le vivant coopère et c’est lors de phases d’abondance