ABOUT SERCADE/PROGRAMME AFRIQUE
The Servicio Capuchino para el Desarrollo y la Solidaridad - SERCADE (Capuchin Service for Development and Solidarity) is an association whose goal is to support the social work of the capuchin friars, and thus, their values, identity and structure, contain what it is to be a franciscan.
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Their main focus are in areas as childhood, old age, homelessness and migration, as well as, help to other entities (be it financially or technically).
Link to SERCADE: http://www.sercade.org
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Programme Afrique is a afternoon-center for the first welcome of young migrants with sub-saharan background, and whose main target is to generate an answer for the first urgent necessities of the colective, exploring the existing social mecanisms, allowing a gradual transfer to an integration scenario.
Link: http://www.sercade.org/proyecto/16/programme-afrique-madrid
ABOUT CASA BOZA
Casa Boza is part of Programme Afrique's welcoming programmme, housing young sub-saharan migrants that are in a structed formation programme. This center tries to consolidate the individual migration projects of the youths, be it through formative support or through social and community integration mecanisms.
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ABOUT US
Francisco
Hello, I'm Francisco, 22, from Aveiro in Northern Portugal. I'm one year from finishing my master's in mechanical engineering and, having a month free for the summer vacations, decided to be part of this small provisional community. I discovered Taizé in 2014 and have been going there ever since. Unfortunately my studies don't allow me to take a longer time, so the small provisional community seemed like the perfect way to integrate Taizé and parish life perfectly.
The idea of going to somewhere completely foreign to us, and yet maintain a communual life with people we don't know, bonding through prayer and the Gospel, while at the same time doing important social work, seemed perfect to me, and this is exactly what we've set to reach here in Madrid, inviting people to our prayers and helping in SERCADE.
I hope our prayers here bring some dynamism to the parish and that our work truly helps people, and this blog will help us tell the story of our journey.
Jean
I’m Jean from Lannion in Bretagne. I’m 20 years old and I finished my history degree in may. I have a free year before to continue with my studies. I was looking for new experience and also and mostly to give time for other. Provisional communities of Taizé, seemed to me, to be smashing. Live in a unknow place, with new people, and serve other. What a great program!
I am also looking for a Gospel life. It is in the daily prayer that reside the center of our adventure. It is in this moment that I hope to find the strength, to accomplish the service that will be entrusted to us.
I’ve been sent with two other young people (Francisco and Miguel) to Madrid, precisely in Casa Boza, a capuchin monastery, where live refugees. We’re going to live with them and to help SERCADE, a refugee aid association.