{"id":1269,"date":"2018-02-04T22:41:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T02:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=1269"},"modified":"2023-12-30T19:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:16:18","slug":"what-is-emmaus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=1269","title":{"rendered":"What is Emmaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Set up in 1971 by French priest, Abb\u00e9 Pierre, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emmaus-international.org\/en\/\">Emmaus International<\/a> is made up of 350 member organisations in 37 different countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. These organisations run income-generating activities at local level with people who have experienced social exclusion to access their fundamental rights and, through their collective action, demonstrate there are credible alternatives to injustice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What makes Emmaus original is that it\u2019s a movement that\u2019s all about bringing people together \u2013 people who have experienced, or who are experiencing social exclusion and people from more privileged backgrounds \u2013 who together, come up with alternatives to poverty.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Emmaus International challenges decision-makers and policy, using its experiences as an example to show how it is possible, and necessary, to implement alternatives to injustice.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The universal manifesto, the Emmaus movement\u2019s founding text, was adopted in 1969 and sets out our main ethos: \u201cServe first those who suffer most\u201d and \u201craise awareness and share struggles until the cause of each ill is eliminated\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Members of Emmaus are local-level organisations, communities, \u201cfriends of Emmaus\u201d grouped into voluntary organisations and social enterprises implementing work integration activities with a social purpose. The movement is made up of a wide range of activists working all around the world. To get an idea of their diversity, go to the Emmaus around the world section, which describes all their different activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/carte-monde.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/carte-monde.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1005\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/carte-monde.png 1005w, https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/carte-monde-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/carte-monde-768x496.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set up in 1971 by French priest, Abb\u00e9 Pierre, Emmaus International is made up of 350 member organisations in 37 different countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. These organisations run income-generating activities at local level with people who have experienced social exclusion to access their fundamental rights and, through their collective action, demonstrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":970,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1269\/revisions\/2011"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}