{"id":9665,"date":"2025-08-26T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/?page_id=9665"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:41:41","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"9665\" class=\"elementor elementor-9665\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5eb93fd9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5eb93fd9\" 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<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65b54dea e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"65b54dea\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63473f4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"63473f4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Meeting Point International (MPI) is a Ugandan Non-Governmental Organization founded by Rose Busingye in 1992 and officially registered in 2003. <strong>Its main activity is the care of people affected and infected by HIV\/AIDS and their children in four slums of Kampala<\/strong>: Naguru, Kireka, Ntinda, and Nsambya.<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66046684 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"66046684\" 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=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" 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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>Meeting Point International was born from <strong>Rose\u2019s encounter with Father Luigi Giussani<\/strong>, an Italian priest who founded the Catholic movement of Communion and Liberation.\u00a0<\/p>\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-081d659 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"081d659\" 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-bb0db8b elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"bb0db8b\" 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 decoding=\"async\" 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