MPI operates as a presence, a companionship, a point of reference that anyone can meet and involve him/herself with. The methodology adopted by MPI is, in fact, qualified by the offering of an effective friendship in which people are not “reduced” to their problems or sickness; they are looked at and embraced for the infinite dignity of their humanity.
The services and the activities provided are important means to promote the awareness of one’s own value and, therefore, enhance responsibility in facing reality as protagonist and contributes to recreate a communitarian sociality besides reducing, if not eliminating, the stigma of HIV/AIDS.
We are directly active in the following areas.
84 children who have lost both their parents and don’t have relatives to care for them, MPI has created a welcoming house.
The project of the Luigi Giussani High School was started because we wanted the kids, like the adults, to understand their true value.
Many kids can't come back to school because of poverty, so they need your help to have a better education.
Low-income people need to supply food and other basic necessities to ensure a better life.
We want to provide the basic necessities for the homeless who have to face with many risks in their life.
“The greatest need of a human being is the need for belonging, which gives stability and certainty in all aspects of life. Meeting Point International has discovered that with a belonging you can approach others while taking into account their reality and you can be able to truly embrace him/her whichever are the differences that separate you. MPI creates simple environments where each person can find it easier to belong and experience love. The value of the person is only possible when paying attention to something greater. The support we give is an instrument to tell these people that they have a value and that they are responsible for it. MPI did not invent this method but even scientific studies have proved this method of ours works. Depriving a person of love and belonging causes physical and functional harm. Having this in mind, my work in MPI is to create or try to create original structures of the values and meaning where each one can develop and discover himself. MPI becomes a place where each can be himself, where an individual can express himself freely and live a constant comparison with his own humanity. The person who belongs becomes the protagonist because he receives a face, and receives a consciousness that unites him with the reality, he becomes the lord of the reality not because he posses it himself, but because he discovers the belonging to someone else. Belonging to a design that is not yours, that is to say, belonging to somebody else, you become free.”