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Cardinal Osoro encourages a culture of solidarity at the Sabadell grant ceremony

The Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Carlos Osoro, encouraged "building a culture of solidarity and encounter", and encouraged to ask "what can I do to build this culture?", at the ceremony in which Banco Sabadell granted financial aid to 33 solidarity projects for an amount of 447,000 euros, within the framework of socially responsible investment (SRI).

Omnes-October 11, 2019-Reading time: 2 minutes

The projects selected by the Banco Sabadell The main purpose of the donations is to cover risks of social exclusion, to meet the basic food and health needs of various groups and to improve the living conditions of people with disabilities.

   To publicize the selected projects, a meeting was held a meeting was held with representatives of the NGOs and religious institutions that will receive the grants, at the Banco Sabadell auditorium on Serrano Street in Madrid. the grants, in the auditorium of Banco Sabadell on Serrano Street in Madrid. At the event, which was also attended by the Bishop of Avila, Mons. Tamayo, the former national soccer coach Vicente del Bosque, and Banco Sabadell executives, the Cardinal of Avila, Mons. Sabadell, Cardinal Osoro emphasized the importance of the "commitment to the service of the person", from "love of sympathy and empathy, especially with those who need it most". in need."and the need to "transforming the world with the logic of sharing and hospitality, not invididualism". invididualism"..

   At the ceremony, the economic resources from the 32.1 % of the 32.1 % from the management committee of the ethical and solidarity fund Sabadell Inversión solidarity fund Sabadell Inversión Ética and Solidarity Fund and Sabadell Urquijo Cooperación Sicav, which this year amounted to almost half a million million euros this year, with a further increase in the number of number of solidarity projects presented to receive solidarity grants from the ethical and solidarity fund of the from Sabadell's Ethical and Solidarity Fund.

   As for the projects, the entity highlights their diversity, both geographically and in terms of the type of institution that receives them and the reason for which the aid is requested. Antonio Sáinz de Vicuña, president of Ayuda a la Iglesia Necesita (ACN) in Spain, spoke on behalf of some of the organizations selected, and pointed out that "in the face of the description that preceded me of
the solidarity activities that Banco Sabadell is going to support, I cannot but
to say: What good people this country has!".
He then thanked Sabadell "to have that social sensitivity and
This generosity, in an environment that has been difficult for banking for some years now".
Finally, he assured that those who deserve the support are "Christians who suffer peacefully
in silence the hardships of returning to Qarakosh (ancient Nineveh, northern Nineveh).
Iraq), after an exile forced by ISIS brutalities and destructions,
of the Middle Ages; this assistance of yours is in addition to the international effort
of reconstruction of a habitat that was Christian from the 1st century A.D. onwards.
era, and where people still pray in the language of Jesus Christ.
Aramaic-. Reconstruction not only of houses, schools and churches, but spiritual reconstruction".    The institutions receiving aid this year for different projects are Caritas Diocese of ZaragozaAsociación Nuevo Futuro, Orden Hospitalaria San Juan de Dios - Hospital Infantil San Rafael, Fundación Tomillo OT, Fundación San Bernardo, Casal dels Infants per L'Acció Social als Barris, Comunidad de Adoratrices Córdoba, Asociación Lares, Asociación Aspanaes, Fundación Prodis-Programa "Empresa", Asociación Valenciana de la Caridad, Fundación Amigos de los Mayores, Cáritas España, Asociación Astrapace, Hijas de la Caridad San Vicente de Paul-Comunidad Comedor Benéfico, Asociación para la Solidaridad, Boscana Foundation, Asociación Asleuval, Asociación Ademna Centro De Día, Fundación Acción Franciscana, Asociación Ademto, Fundación Down Madrid, Fundación Benito Menni, Ayuda a la Iglesia Necesitada-ACN España, Asociación Cesal, Fundación Alboan, Asociación It will be, Manos Unidas, Fundación AD Gentes, Hermanas de la Virgen María del Monte Carmelo, Congregación de los Sagrados Corazones, Fundación Privada para la Lucha contra la Esclerosis Múltiple and Centro de Educación especial Santa Teresa de Ávila.

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