Opus Dei

VIDEO: St. Josemaría’s canonization in 2002 left its mark on Africa, when persons from all over the world donated more than one million euros. With these, Harambee was able to fund 24 projects. Now, five years later, it is undertaking four more projects which are here briefly described.

For over 40 years Condoray has been providing job training for women who have no resources of their own. An interview with the program's assistant director.

In Kenya, university students are trained so that they in turn can train rural women who lack business skills, to engage in income-generating activities, to start and run their own micro businesses.

A volunteer project in Matara, Sri Lanka in July 2006 offered Jenny and 11 other girls a chance to make a difference for tsunami victims with their time and effort.

Twenty students from Taiwan, Indonesia and Singapore spend their holidays serving orphans.

In July a team of 22 men from Australia and New Zealand travelled to the Fijian village of Navunibitu to carry out urgent maintenance and painting in a school. The project was an annual “workcamp” organized by Warrane College. The pastoral care of Warrane College, a university residence of UNSW, is entrusted to Opus Dei.

For the fourth year in a row, Creston College’s service project allowed twenty students from the Universities of New South Wales, Sydney and Technology the opportunity to touch some hearts – both young and old – in the western NSW town of Dubbo.

The University Hospital has been promoting health care and medical research since it was established by Opus Dei in Buenos Aires six years ago. Its clinic is open to all, whether they have the means to pay or not.

The Family Cooperation Health Services Foundation has primary health-care programs in Las Piñas and Muntinlupa. The program includes classes for barangay health workers and mothers. The foundation holds medical-dental missions monthly.

Punlaan School and Talon Family Farm School help to uplift the living standards of the students and their families, always guided by Christian values.