{"id":3065,"date":"2021-02-19T03:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T03:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.ovatheme.com\/asting\/?page_id=3065"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:46:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3065\" class=\"elementor elementor-3065\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6403be1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6403be1\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d583be e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5d583be\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b431ad elementor-widget elementor-widget-ova_heading\" data-id=\"9b431ad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ova_heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ova-heading\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"sub_title thrid_font\">Meeting Point International\n<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"desc\">Meeting Point International (MPI) is a Ugandan Non Government Organization founded by Rose Busingye in 1993 and registered in 2003. Its main activity is the care of people affected and infected by HIV\/AIDS and of their orphans in four slums situated in Kampala namely Naguru, Kireka, Ntinda and Nsambya.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16a6aa5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"16a6aa5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-986ff55 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"986ff55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1362\" src=\"https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DSCN2190-scaled-e1727343643401-2048x1362.jpg\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048 wp-image-7071\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DSCN2190-scaled-e1727343643401-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DSCN2190-scaled-e1727343643401-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DSCN2190-scaled-e1727343643401-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DSCN2190-scaled-e1727343643401-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DSCN2190-scaled-e1727343643401-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DSCN2190-scaled-e1727343643401-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9693390 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9693390\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ddc04c5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ddc04c5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6150bd4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6150bd4\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ec4747 elementor-widget elementor-widget-ova_heading\" data-id=\"4ec4747\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ova_heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ova-heading\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"sub_title thrid_font\">Where MPI\u2019s experience come from?<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"desc\">\n\nMPI was born from Rose\u2019s encounter with Father Luigi Giussani, an Italian priest who founded the Catholic movement of Communion and Liberation. \u201cI personally felt free as a person, I felt great, protagonist of reality only because someone, Luigi Giussani, revealed me who I am. I will never forget my first encounter with him. He did not know me, what could he see in me? It was evident I was nothing, instead I felt embraced and desired. It was as if his gaze was telling me: \u2018I want to stay with you, you have an infinite value\u2019. Everything has born from that gaze.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f4c683 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3f4c683\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c30a0a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c30a0a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;In that gaze <strong>I discovered that I am not defined by my limits<\/strong> but by my personal relationship with God who makes me and makes me as an infinite desire of Him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In that gaze, the belonging to Christ and to His Church has become experience, experience of a bond who defines me for ever and that manifest Himself in everything I am and do.<\/p>\n<p>That gaze has established the content and the method of my work: communicate the \u201cCommozione\u201d (being moved) for the infinite greatness of everybody existence and offer the same companionship towards the Destiny who embrace my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>&#8211; 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it is a calling. &quot;I feel fortunate for having discovered this early in my life&quot;. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"title thrid_font\">Esther Amito<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting Point International Meeting Point International (MPI) is a Ugandan Non Government Organization founded by Rose Busingye in 1993 and registered in 2003. 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