The Saint Monica’s Home of the Augustinian Recollects in Fortaleza (Ceará, Brazil) is a project that fights against exploitation, abuse, abandonment, school drop-out or any type of violence against underage girls and adolescents from neighborhoods, families and more vulnerable.
The Augustinian Recollects took on a Project that would unite efforts not only in the same district, but also in the city. They integrated themselves into the Spiritual Condominium Uirapuru (CEU), with other non-profit organizations that carry out social, spiritual and formative projects.
The CEU has its base in a large nature range, an area organised in order to “reconstruct people” spiritually and materially. The green areas and the absence of walls ease the sense of a life held in common. The young girls are far from drugs trafficking, the motels, the beaches, the delinquency and all that is common in their district.
In the CEU the organizations and independent resources of everyone, according to what is possible, are held in common. Orders and religious congregations, lay organizations, and various movements, without naming all, unite efforts. Without losing what is particular, they unite efforts and to participate in what the Church has come to call: “The Ecclesiology of Communion”, a search for harmony without putting to one side what every organization is called to do by its founders.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1. One dollar and a half: a Passport to immunity
- 2. The origin of Saint Monica’s Home
- 3. A project with principles
- 4. A Project in communion
- 5. The dynamics of injustice
- 6. Sexual tourism and the under-age
- 7. Who has access to Saint Monica’s Home?
- 8. A project with objectives
- 9. Methodology, Evaluation, Planning
