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ear colleagues and friends, As President of this Institution, it is a pleasure for me to present, once more, the FPSC’s Report on Activities and Finance Information of 2016. Moreover in Spain our voluntary service for leisure and accompaniment at occupational centers for the intellectually challenged and the elderly keeps on consolidating, implying the diversiJumana Trad. President fication of initiatives and allowing us to Christians in situations of discrimination or cover a wider range of social needs. persecution, more specifically those in the I would not like to conclude without Middle East, in order to raise awareness of expressing our gratitude for the continuous their reality. support of so many anonymous people who contributed in the FPSC different Some other issues that have received fundraising initiatives throughout the year. I the FPSC’s special attention have been would like to stress the collaboration of the the complicated and precarious state two youth associations of Tamaral Joven of women’s rights in Libya,�yet another and Pino Alto in our permanent Syria and country at war, as well as the relevance of Iraq campaigns and thank all those who the dialogue between science and religion stayed with us at the benefit concert held to search for answers to environmental in December with the performance of the problems. group “Hay Tablas”. Nevertheless, we must never forget development cooperation, which is our leading area of intervention. To this effect I would like to point out our actions: in Bolivia and Haiti, aimed to secure the access to the human right to water and sanitation, in Guatemala and Paraguay, involving the training of women and their insertion in the work world, and finally in Mozambique, Ethiopia, Peru and Palestine, where the FPSC keeps on working for rural and agricultural development and for a proper management of water resources. My most sincere gratitude also to donors, public and private subsidizers, members, staff and volunteers of the FPSC. It is only thanks to their effort and generosity that the Foundation is able to achieve its goals and go on with its work.
There is no doubt the world is currently suffering high levels of pain, “the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations”, as recently reported by Stephen O’Brian, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. In this context, one of the FPSC’s main foundations grows even more fitting: promote the dignity of people in the world. The situation of high instability caused by war in the Middle East has led the Foundation to increase its work on humanitarian aid in Lebanon and Jordan, aiming not only to alleviate pain but also to preserve the dignity of those who suffer more, particularly the most vulnerable such as minorities, persons with disabilities, children, the elderly or women. It is because of this that I would like to begin by expressing our gratitude for the prizes received from the MAPFRE Foundation for the “Best Social Action Initiative” and Bankinter, in recognition of the essential work the FPSC is currently developing in Jordan with Syrian refugees. Our engagement with refugees and minorities has also lead us to be promoters of #StandTogether, a digital platform created to give voice to all those