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2007/11/16
Sailors in solidarity
My name is Hector. I’m stationed on a frigate in the Spanish Navy, and am a member of Opus Dei. When I found out that we would be conducting maneuvers in the Red Sea with a four-day stopover in one of the poorest countries in the world, a group of us officers decided to try to do what we could to help out.. 2007/10/05
Harambee inaugurates Four New Projects for Africa
VIDEO: St. Josemaría’s canonization in 2002 left its mark on Africa, when persons from all over the world donated more than one million euros. With these, Harambee was able to fund 24 projects. Now, five years later, it is undertaking four more projects which are here briefly described.. 2007/03/21
Kenya: Training of trainers
In Kenya, university students are trained so that they in turn can train rural women who lack business skills, to engage in income-generating activities, to start and run their own micro businesses.. 2006/02/20
Harambee 2006 presentation in Rome
"All together for Africa" is the motto of "Harambee," a solidarity project begun in 2002 to commemorate the canonization of the founder of Opus Dei. On February 13, Harambee announced four new African development initiatives.. 2005/12/11
"Development is not studied; it is achieved through personal commitment."
Women members of Opus Dei began "Kimbondo," a social action program on the outskirts of Kinshasa, Congo.. 2005/07/20
Iroto, a rural development center for women in Nigeria
Iroto Rural Development Centre was started at the beginning of 1986.. 2005/06/23
A small business training program in Kenya
The TOT (Training of Trainers) Project began in 2003. University students from Fanusi Study Centre, a corporate apostolic work of Opus Dei, are trained to train rural women to start and run their own micro businesses.. 2005/01/31
Kianda Foundation launches Endowment Fund for African women
Kianda Foundation, a non-profit trust established in 1961 to provide education to women in Kenya, has embarked on building an Endowment Fund that will provide education to 350 girls and 500 women in Kenya in perpetuity. Besides providing women with professional preparation, Kianda’s institutions offer programs of spiritual formation, which they have entrusted to Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Catholic Church.. 2004/11/19
The Harambee 2002 prizes, “Tell about Africa,” are conferred in Rome
Conferral of prizes established in observance of the canonization of Opus Dei’s Founder took place in Rome’s City Hall on November 15, 2004.. 2004/01/03
Harambee 2002: Phase Two
Harambee 2002, the solidarity project promoting educational initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa, starts its second phase with an Africa awareness campaign and a new round of fund-raising to finance more projects.. 
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