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Micro businesses, a way to sustainable development in Africa

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Micro businesses, a way to sustainable development in Africa

(April 11, 2017) Creating development to contain mass migrations: this is the ultimate goal of many projects created by the Comitato di Collegamento di Cattolici per una Civiltà dell’Amore (Catholic Liaison Committee for a Civilization of Love - CCCA). Established in 1992, a non-profit organization since 1995, the Committee is headed by the Secretary General, Eng. Giuseppe Rotunno, who attended the two days organized at MAXXI in Rome, dedicated to "Africa 2030: Enpowering the continent through innovation, green tech solutions and capacity building", and the conference of April 10, which was held at the Foreign Ministry, entitled "Migration and development". Those were two occasions to illustrate the development projects related to agriculture, energy, water and education campaign and work in rural Wolaita, in Ethiopia. "We have a moral obligation to deal with the dramatic situation experienced by migrants, not only in Italy, but also in South America or Indochina - says Rotunno - the poverty in some segments of the world is such that forces people to look elsewhere, away from home, to a better life. Yet Africa would be the richest continent in the world for resources: we must make sure to invest to let people work and produce at best". A commitment that the CCCA pursuing since its founding, helping European companies to grow the African market and accompanying at the same time the growth of the local markets in a sustainable way. In particular, the aim is to give rise to a virtuous internationalization, a real development cooperation in terms of training of local staff, with the transfer of production and in particular technological know-how: "We had the grace, through the work of missionaries, to understand that you could work on site at the capillary level, through micro-projects, small businesses easily manageable. It is 30 years that channeling the funds that are made available by making them earn the most. Our businesses must be able to support these emerging micro-enterprises on the African territory so that they learn to manage and administer them independently", explains Rotunno. (Red)


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Established on October 2, 1992, the CCCA is committed to the implementation of micro-projects and the launch of micro-enterprises in Africa, especially in the Sahel. The CCCA works in close collaboration with the Missionary Institutes present in more than 40 poor nations, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Haiti, India and Peru, to promote sponsorship projects. These initiatives aim to create on-site job opportunities, paid for poor householders. The program relating to micro-enterprises was launched in 2002 with the aim of supporting the creation of a micro-business fabric in poor countries, through a participated planning action and laboratory training made possible by collaboration between lenders, missionary world and small Italian businesses.

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