SPAIN, 2003, Scott 3199
ANESVAD (from A Nuestros Enfermos Servimos Viendo a Dios - In Our Patients We Serve God) was singled out by Spain on the 50th World Leprosy Day. A non-governmental and non-profit organization, ANESVAD was founded in Bilbao in 1968, became a national organization two years later, and began its international work the next year with the help of Fr. Javier Olazabal, SJ, a Jesuit from Bilbao, who went voluntarily to practice his apostolate to the Culion leprosy-island in the Philippines. It now serves people in 28 Asian, Latin American and African countries, in close collaboration with Jesuits and other orders. More
EL SALVADOR, 2000, the 30th anniversary of Fe
y Alegría, Scott 1535
Fe y Alegría is a “Movement for Integral Popular Education and Social Development” whose activities are directed to the most impoverished and excluded sectors of the population, in order to empower them in their personal development and their participation in society. It was founded in Venezuela in 1955 by Fr. José María Vélaz, SJ, and currently has 300 centers in Latin America teaching 152,018 students and engaging 18 Jesuits. Joaquín López y López, SJ, one of the martyrs of UCA in San Salvador, was director of Fe y Alegría at the time he was murdered. The Jesuit Curia in Rome defines "Jesuit" in fairly broad terms and in publishing statistics on Jesuit educational institutions of the Society includes, along with traditional Jesuit schools, institutions which share the Ignatius vision and spirit, draw upon a common heritage, and foster the mission of the Society, regardless of their juridical ties to the Society, their structure of governance, or their ownership. This includes Fe y Alegría centers in Latin America as well as other networks more loosely tied to the Society. More