What do we do?

"What Providence sends us, because it is not what we do that distinguishes us, but it is the Spirit and the way that distinguish our work from other works similar to ours" (don Luigi Monza)

• in factories, in schools, in hospitals, in trade unions, in offices, in politics. They offer a specific service to life, to its protection and care through the Association "La Nostra Famiglia" in the following activities.

• rehabilitation of disabled people in various regions of Italy and in developing Countries (at present the Sudan, Brazil and Ecuador);

• research and continuous study into medical and psycho - educational problems of various disabilities at the "E.Medea" Scientific Institute in Bosisio Parini (Lecco)

• admittance of children from difficult families waiting for fostering or adoption, children and adolescents without families or with difficult environmental and social problems to small communities or to family groups.

• they contribute to their professional training in the school for social workers, rehabilitation therapists, educators and specialized teachers;

• they direct voluntary sevice experience at the Centres of "La Nostra Famiglia" in service communities with formative projects targeted to achieving a style of voluntary service seen in every day life, in professional choices, through their solidarity to developing the Countries.

• they promote walks of human and Christan formation, of prayer and of brotherly life in different groups of juvenile spirituality;

• they give courses in education to the faith and in catechism in the parishes;

• they cooperate with the pastoral action of the Church in this sphere and they particularly back up and support families in difficult situations as well as promoting their well being and arranging meetings between such families.

• they encourage and educate young families called to share the ideal of the "pratical charity of the first Christians" to answer the pressing needs of hospitality , education and of help to mankind

They participate in parish and diocesan organisations and associations by assisting with the pastoral activities of catechism, liturgy and charity.

Through the Voluntary Organisation for International Cooperation (OVCI - La Nostra Famiglia) they fulfill projects aimed at the development of human, social technical and health advancement of the people of the developing Countries, and they assist with the church's mission of evangelization.

There is good to do everywhere ... because all the earth is your place" (don Luigi Monza)