{"id":339476,"date":"2012-07-30T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T12:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/english-entrepreneurs-increase-courses-in-chile-and-brazil\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:01:51","slug":"english-entrepreneurs-increase-courses-in-chile-and-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/english-entrepreneurs-increase-courses-in-chile-and-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurs Increase: Courses in Chile and Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Cultural Research.<\/strong> These elements are always found in the Economy of Communion (EoC)<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cWhen the youth aren\u2019t engaged, there\u2019s nothing, because without them, there\u2019s no enthusiasm, creativity, optimism, gratuity. The youths need to be the protagonists.\u201d These are the words of economist Luigino Bruni, international coordinator of the EoC, and one of the faculty members at the course inRecife. The \u201cEoC schools\u201d have been going on for years in various parts of the world, and they are multiplying:Italy,France,Argentina,Brazil, in 2011 a Pan-African school inKenyaand an upcoming one inPortugal. This week it wasChileandBrazil. A new road was opened inSantiago. There was enthusiasm over the consolidation of a project inRecife. But the DNA is this idealism and action. \u201cAt the conclusion of this school, we now imagine that it marks the moment for beginning of EoC businesses in Chile,\u201d affirms Prof. Benedetto Gui, representing the Sophia University Institute<\/strong><\/a>, partner school of the EoC in Chile, the first in the land of the Andes. Students at the Silva Henriquez Catholic University of Santiago of Chileand from the University Santisima Conception <\/em>of Conception were hearing of the EoC for the first time as they gathered on 5-8 July 2012. The initial scepticism gave way to participation in the project, as the youths fromRecife express: \u201cWe invite you to live an experience in which values play an important role. This economy isn\u2019t something foolish. It is something beautiful that can be put into practice, something that breaks traditional business schemes and consumerism.\u201d

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Video saluto alla scuola di Recife<\/a><\/p><\/div> What most convinced these future commercial engineers, more than anything else, were the testimonies offered by business people, like that of Bernardo Ramirez<\/strong>, industry director and president of the Foco Society, which began as a savings coop, the only business of the EoC in Chile. And there was the testimony of Bettina Gonzalez<\/strong>, owner of a t<\/em>ravel agency of the EoC<\/strong><\/a> inBuenos Aires. Drawing on her own experience, she explained an approach to doing business which went against the current: suggesting that clients postpone their travel to a more peaceful time for their family; lucrative weekend travel packages to the waterfalls that they refused because they had heard there would be an excessive number of tourists that would frighten away the fauna, and so on. \"\" At the course in Recife they spoke of a \u201cnew springtime\u201d for the EoC<\/strong>, where most of the 200 attendees were young people. And there were novelties: the creation of a free consulting group for the planning of new EoC businesses; the opening of a carpentry shop, for the formation of young people at risk, which is to be added on to the three EoC businesses already present at Mariapolis Ginetta in Igarassu<\/strong><\/a>, in the metropolitan area ofRecife. The theme of \u201cbusiness parks\u201d of the Economy of Communion was the object of discussion for an entire day at the course, also fighting poverty which is an objective of the EoC. \u201cWhat makes the EoC different from other economic proposals<\/em>,\u201d explains one young person, \u201cis that the business person places himself on the same level as the worker, who is his brother and sister. He gives up many things. It\u2019s a radical decision. I foresee a wide horizon ahead of us, hard work, but this isn\u2019t a problem for me.<\/em>\u201d What Bruni called economy by vocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the month of July two courses on the Economy of Communion for students of economy from Santiago, Chileand Recife, Brazil.<\/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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2826],"tags":[2849,2848,2811,2908,2907],"class_list":["post-339476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura-2","tag-america-del-sud-2","tag-brasile-2","tag-economia-2","tag-economia-di-comunione-2","tag-economy-of-communion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339476","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=339476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}