Comunita di Sant'Egidio, USA (International)

Category of Activity

Peace & Security

Brief Description

The community of Sant'Egidio, a non-profit Catholic charity, has spent twenty-seven years tending to Rome's poor. The concrete image of Sant'Egidio is that of a soup kitchen, where daily approximately two thousand foreigners and homeless find a meal. Less well-known is that Sant'Egidio has worked internationally since the beginning of the eighties on certain geopolitical problems and crises of various types: wars and local conflicts, areas stricken with hunger, and natural calamities. In 1992, for instance, this community was instrumental in securing a peace treaty for Mozambique after more than two years of diplomatic work. Its humanitarian arm has reached as far as Ethiopia, El Salvador, Vietnam and Namibia before independence.

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Contact Information

Andrea Bartoli
Comunita di Sant'Egidio
560 Riverside Drive #7P
New York, New York, 10027 USA
Tel. #: 1 212 854 4449
Fax #: 1 212 663 4178