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POPULORUM
PROGRESSIO FOUNDATION Approves 223
rural start-up projects in South America
The annual meeting of the Board of Administration of the Populorum Progressio Foundation took place from 7 to 12 July in Sucre and La Paz, Bolivia. The
Foundation was created by Pope John Paul II on 13 February 1992, during the
Fifth Centenary of the beginning of Evangelization of Latin America, when the
Fourth General Assembly of CELAM was also celebrated. Populorum
Progressio Foundation aims to be a sign and witness of Christian
solidarity The
main purpose is to promote the integral development of the rural communities
of the campesinos of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Indigenous, Mestizo
and African-American peoples, and to be a sign and a witness of Christian
brotherhood and authentic solidarity. Its headquarters are at the Pontifical
Council "Cor Unum". The President and legal representative,
Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, was present throughout the meeting. The
Board of Adminstration supervises the application of the Foundation's Statutes,
then studies and approves the projects submitted for integral development
during the year. The Board is made up of seven members, six of whom are
Bishops of different Latin American countries and one who is a member of the
Pontifical Council "Cor Unum".
Projects
approved At
the meeting this year 223 projects out of the 270 submitted were approved for
a sum totalling $1,895,300 U.S. This sum will be sent to those in charge of
the projects in August. This year Colombia, Peru and Bolivia will receive
extra help. The Antilles, Cuba
and Honduras submitted the fewest requests. Of
the projects approved, 36.67% concern production, either stock-breeding, craft
work and mini-businesses or community farms; 27.78% concern the municipal
infrastructure, drinking water, sewage, fencing, and community halls; the
third sector, 15.92% of the
approved projects, concern education: training, staff, communications and
publishing; 12.59% concern the construction of health-care centres, schools
and housing; and 7.04% concern health care: training and staff. Including this
year's projects, in the 10 years since Populorum Progressio was founded,
1,820 projects have been approved overall, for a total of just over 1.5
million U.S. dollars.
450th
anniversary of the Church of La Plata, today Sucre With the meeting in the city of Sucre, the Foundation joins in the joyful celebrations for the 450th anniversary of the Particular Church of La Plata, today Sucre. On 27 June 1552, with the Bull Super specula, Pope Julius III canonically established the Diocese of La Plata, at the request of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, King Charles I of Spain and Archduke of Austria, which prepared the ground for the subsequent establishment of many other particular Churches in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. La Plata became an Archdiocese on 20 July 1609. In 1924, it was renamed Sucre to include the whole Department of Chuquisaca. Bolivia
Msgr. Francisco Azcona San Martín Undersecretary
of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum"
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