Mission:
To promote community cohesion through Dialogue and Proximity.
We believe in an integrated vision of a sustainable, humane and social development, with People and their inherent, inviolable and inalienable dignity at the center of all motivations, decisions and actions.
MEERU | Abrir Caminho
MEERU | Abrir Caminho has been running since february 2019. Since then, we have come together to discuss and work nonstop with the certainty of the need to answer to the crises around the world. However, the path that each element of the team has taken started way before that, in the heart and testemony of each one of us.
These have been times of openness, availability, service and urgency. A path of caring, planning, dreaming and learning.
In each moment of action of MEERU | Abrir Caminho there is one central focus - the people we meet: people who teach us, who make us believe, who dream, think and make themselves available, people who are inspiring and who open themselves to others.
Our path in some numbers
We like words more than numbers. However, if we consider that behind each number there are infinite words, this has been more or less the case:
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Our Lines of Action
Our Goals
We walk towards a Common Humanity, guided by concrete goals:
Preparing the future
To raise awareness, train and mobilize different social groups, in order to build a common, more global and humane future, recognizing the lessons of the past and understanding the reality of the present
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Promoting acceptance
To foster closeness, dialogue and acceptance regarding others as a endless and indispensable humane source of personal development and human coexistence.
Cultivating diversity
To promote – through intercultural dialogue – genuine acceptance and respect for the diversity and dynamics of ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic traditions, whilst recognizing our common humanity, as well as the absolute and inviolable value of human dignity.
Being part of the story
To develop an action coherent with our values, inspiring a paradigm shift in the community, one person at a time.
Create social transformation
To create mechanisms that encourage and enable change, combined with a sustainable development, for a more socially fair and inclusive world at a local, national and international level.
Our Values
Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we define as our fundamental values:
Collaboration
We believe in the power of building strong networks of people and organizations that have dialogue as an integrated solution in a response to complex problems.
Respect
We believe in respectful relationships, which are based on the recognition of the importance and appreciation of each person's rights and dignity.
Acceptance
We believe that the reciprocal acceptance of each person's uniqueness and fragility is the starting point to, through a shared vision of the world, build cohesive communities.
Proximity
We believe that the development of cohesive communities is based on close relationships as a way of being, and as a way to promote unity in diversity.
Authenticity
We believe in the authenticity of proximity and trust relationships, which lead to the discovery of the potential, strengths and internal motivations of each person and the need to use them to serve their community.
Being part of the story
We believe in the transformative power of these values when embodied in the real choices and gestures that are part of everyday life.
Our Team
The names and faces of the MEERU team.
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Where are we?
Our projects are located all arround the North of Portugal. However, you can find us at the best office of the world.
