{"id":327334,"date":"2015-06-03T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/economy-of-communion-eoc-in-kenya-one-business-is-not-enough\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:00:34","slug":"economy-of-communion-eoc-in-kenya-one-business-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/economy-of-communion-eoc-in-kenya-one-business-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy of Communion (EoC) in Kenya: One business is not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EdC_05\"<\/a>In order to look toward the future, on the last day of the meeting, the Congress turned its gaze on the new generations. With the first engaging words of Anouk Grevin<\/strong>, Professor of Management at the University of Nantes and member of the International Commission of the EoC<\/a>, everyone broke into applause: \u201cWhen a baby is born,\u201d he said, \u201cthe whole community shows care, the child that was born belongs to everyone.\u201d His words express one of the most important values of the African continent and that is,”You need a village to grow a child”. Grevin went on to say, \u201cWe lived such wonderful dreams with the young people at the International EoC School!\u201d With much enthusiasm Anouk moved around the hall. The walls were covered with pictures of the young people\u2019s projects, <\/strong>and their dreams. With unique creativity and a passion that would be difficult to describe, the young people presented those projects: some already underway, others only dreams, although for them that didn\u2019t matter! John Mundell<\/strong> launched an appeal to his friends: open your businesses to introduce these new generations into the work world: <\/strong>\u201cThe experience in an EoC business makes you experience a wealth of true relationships along with professionalism!\u201d<\/em> \"EdC_02\"<\/a>The real life events of the business people from around the world \u2013 especially the young people \u2013 gave glimpses of a better future: from Italy<\/strong> to Argentina<\/strong>, to Paraguay<\/strong>, to the presentation of a thesis on the EoC by a young Brazilian woman who is about to finish her studies at Sophia Institute. If today our gaze is pointed towards the future-present, then it is an important moment for making strong and binding commitments: \u201cWe should promise ourselves that we will never turn back,\u201d <\/em>said Luigino Bruni<\/strong>. \u201c We\u2019ve lived some miracles over the past few days, our stories that need to be told to everyone. The EoC isn\u2019t a consumer good, many people in the world waiting for it. We need to continue to be \u201cproducers\u201d of communion, not only its consumers.\u201d The final statement was a powerful appeal. The promise to give one\u2019s life for an economy of communion. <\/strong>Then the business people wished to leave a visible sign of their personal commitment, which materialised in the form of a \u201cpact,\u201d which everyone was free to sign.

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Gen\u00e9vi\u00e8ve Sanz\u00e9 and Luigino Bruni addressing the conference<\/p><\/div> Gen\u00e9vi\u00e8ve Sanz\u00e9 <\/strong>gave the concluding remarks: <\/strong>\u201cThey say that all good things come to an end, but I think we need to change that saying. We lived in such a fraternal Congress, so joy-filled that it just can\u2019t end, now we need to really begin the race; it\u2019s the moment to go out, and head towards the world.\u201d <\/strong> “One business is not enough”<\/strong>, recalling Chiara Lubich\u2019s writing \u201cOne city is not enough<\/a>,\u201d was the focus of the reflection on the last day of the congress, and ignited a passion to live for such a great dream, to see the world invaded by EoC businesses. \u201cWith a God who comes to visit you each morning, if you wish, one city is too little . . . aim further: towards your country, the world. May your every breath, every action be spent working for this goal…<\/em>.\u201d .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The proposal of over 300 business people from 41 countries of the 5 continents at the conclusion of the 2015 International Economy of Communion (EoC) Congress in Nairobi, Kenya. The concrete commitment of business owners to young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}