The Swiss Child Protection Foundation

Switzerland

Mission, vision and values

The Swiss Child Protection Foundation is an independent foundation under private law active throughout the country. This charitable organisation works to ensure that all children in Switzerland can grow up in safety and dignity, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. To this effect, drawing on scientific studies, the foundation systematically proposes prevention projects and awareness campaigns and organises political lobbying.

The Swiss Child Protection Foundation reaches out to specialists, educators, policymakers, private and state organisations, and the Swiss public. It funds its work with targeted fundraising among individuals, companies, foundations, and public institutions.

Specific activities in support of families

The foundation offers training courses, supports parents and professional groups and implements prevention projects. The course provided by the Swiss Child Protection Foundation, called ‘Strong Parents – Strong Children’, is presented below.

The foundation also organises action days and weeks to draw the attention of the population, on a large scale, to important issues concerning the well-being of children. In the various events, issues related to child protection and education are addressed, with particular emphasis on respecting children’s rights.

With awareness campaigns and lobbying activities aimed at protecting children from violence, the Swiss Child Protection Foundation consistently calls out disregard for children’s rights by name.

Contact: www.kinderschutz.ch

The Course

“Strong Parents – Strong Children”

Switzerland

Mission, vision and values

Educating children is a challenging task. Daily parenting frequently does not take place in the best way and results in quarrels and aggressive attitudes. Often, adults come out frustrated and do not feel up to their task as educators. Children, for their part, feel that they are not understood and are left alone.

The Swiss Child Protection Foundation offers the course ‘Strong Parents – Strong Children’ in a program that helps educators prevent these situations of conflict more often and resolve them constructively without violence.

Specific activities

The course, ‘Strong Parents – Strong Children’ is offered in different variations for parents of children of different age groups, as the needs and daily lives of families change depending on the age of the children. The course for parents of ‘Strong Parents-Strong Children’ is divided into several parts, conveying the authoritative parenting model. Participating parents receive information on parenting topics, can reflect on them, try new things playfully, make a direct connection with their daily family life through exercises and exchange their experiences with other parents.

Through the interaction within the group, participants realise that other parents are not perfect either and that they too have to deal with similar problems. This realisation is enough to bring relief to the participants. Through new ideas and increased self-confidence, participants gain a good background that will enable them to avoid conflict situations in the future or dampen them before they escalate. In daily educational life, parents will feel calmer and more confident., and reach out less frequently.

Contact: www.kinderschutz.ch/it/offerte/offerte-di-prevenzione/genitori-forti-bambini-forti

Pro Familia

Switzerland

Mission, vision and values

Pro Family Switzerland is the umbrella organisation for fifty national member organisations and five cantonal sections, all committed to families - particularly parents, children and young people. Pro Family Switzerland networks families and parent organisations, together with the cantonal Pro Family sections, to help strengthen the position of families - recognising their diversity.

Pro Family Switzerland’s competence centre supports companies and the public sector in developing family-friendly policies. The priority topics to be addressed are reconciling work and family life, intergenerational solidarity, reintegrating mothers into the job market, family poverty and early childhood.

Specific activities

The Family Score Awards (www.profamilia.ch/fr/entreprises-administrations/family-score-fr): The Family Score is a scientific survey of employees designed to measure work-life balance in companies. Institutions that score 60 points or more (out of 100), with a minimum participation rate, are considered family-friendly and can carry the “Family Score” quality label for three years. With the “Family Score Award 2023”, Pro Family Switzerland has honoured the best institutions in four categories (administrations, non-profit organisations, small and medium-sized enterprises and large companies).

Switzerland’s first family barometer www.barometredesfamilles.ch: With the Swiss Family Barometer, Pax and Pro Family Switzerland has for the first time launched an instrument that takes the pulse of families in Switzerland every year. The first edition of the survey of over 2000 families shows that, although satisfaction with one’s family life is currently high, a majority fears that the general situation of families in Switzerland will deteriorate in the coming years.

Work-Family Balance www.workfamilybalance.ch. The “Work-Family Balance” quality label is the first Swiss standard for the certification of family-friendly companies and organisations. In principle, the certificate can be obtained by all companies and associations, regardless of their organisational form, size or field of activity. Certification is available at three levels: Basic, Advanced and Professional Standard.

Contact: www.profamilia.ch  

Family ministry of the Catholic   Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva, Fribourg

Switzerland

Mission, vision and values

Family ministry is present in the various dioceses of the Catholic Church. The pastoral care of families seeks to reach out and accompany couples and families living on their journey into their family life. At the local level, the Diocesan Family Pastoral Services is entrusted with three particular missions: accompanying engaged couples preparing for marriage, fostering the spiritual fulfilment of couples and families and helping afflicted or broken families.

For example, based on a meeting with the bishop’s delegate for families, we would like to present the services offered by the diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg in French-speaking Switzerland.

Specific activities

For engaged couples who wish to prepare for their wedding and deepen their understanding of the challenges of a sacramental marriage, various evening or weekend meetings enable them to discuss different aspects of life as a couple. A couple facilitator and a member of the Church, priest or lay person, prepare and lead these meetings.

Family counselling services are offered by dioceses and parishes, or in conjunction with other movements or professionals, to help families who face difficulties and are no longer able to overcome them, using their own resources (children’s arguments, learning difficulties, communication, worrisome teenage behaviour, children seeking autonomy, etc.).

The various pastoral services also offer help to couples going through crisis or break-up situations to help them get through or to help them get back on their feet after separation or divorce. If necessary, they can also refer couples and families to counsellors, marital advisors or couple and family therapists who consider the Christian dimension of these families.

Activities are offered to accompany families through the important times of the liturgical year, such as the start of the new school year, the preparation of Advent wreaths or the Ascent to Easter, including the various catechetical and sacramental preparation services. In many parishes, teams of volunteers also organise Eucharistic celebrations for families, considering the specific needs of children. 

Contact:

Switzerland:   https://pastorale-familles-geneve.ch/ or https://www.bischoefe.ch/

Germany: https://www.dbk.de/

Austria:   https://katoliska-cerkev.si/

Slovakia: https://www.kbs.sk/obsah/sekcia/h/konferencia-biskupov-slovenska

Slovenia: https://katoliska-cerkev.si/ 

Caritas Jura - Services for families

Switzerland

Mission, vision and values

On an international level, Caritas is recognised for its commitment to serving many countries that are experiencing humanitarian crises, whether these be armed conflicts resulting in the displacement of populations, natural disasters such as earthquakes or severe periods of drought, or any other situation requiring emergency intervention to help people in distress.

In many countries, Caritas also works to help people in need, especially those in precarious situations, particularly migrants and refugees. In Switzerland, for example, Caritas helps almost 700,000 people affected by poverty.

But Caritas also offers services for families in crisis or seeking advice on raising children. For example, we introduce you to the services offered by the local branch of Caritas in the canton of Jura in Switzerland after meeting a counsellor working in the family service.

Specific activities

If couples or family problems are an issue, Caritas Jura’s qualified marriage counsellors and therapists are available to help them work out solutions. Couples and family therapy are free of charge. A range of services are available on request, including:

• Counsellors and therapists are there to listen, support and accompany couples and families who need to take their personal assessment, consider a change in their relationship or find new ways of raising their children.
• The Couples and Families Sector of Caritas Jura offers a 4-meeting program for individuals planning to start living as a couple and for “new couples”. Living as a couple can be an exciting adventure. By being adequately prepared, the love and passion experienced in the beginning stages can be better equipped to navigate the realities and challenges of everyday life.
• These services also offer three evenings of exchange and support facilitated by two professionals for parents (alone or as a couple) for teenagers aged 12 to 18. Some of the topics that are covered at these evenings include: communicating with teenagers, setting boundaries, allowing independence, and supporting autonomy.

Contact:

Switzerland: www.caritas-regio.ch/fr/a-propos-de-caritas/jura

Germany: www.caritas.de

Austria: www.caritas-austria.at

Slovenia: www.karitas.si

Slovakia: www.charita.sk

The AVIFA association (Amour, Vie, Famille)

Switzerland

Mission, vision and values

The AVIFA association, active in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, supports people in their emotional, relational and sexual lives. Avifa’s consultants have undergone accredited training and are specialists in their field, enabling them to offer services to the association’s members through its three branches of activity: Education to Life, Marital Life, Couple and Fertility.

AVIFA cares for parents and couples, helping them communicate and develop their skills and self-confidence. It intervenes in fertility management by helping conception and spacing births using natural methods based on self-knowledge.

AVIFA provides various educational services on emotional, relational and sexual matters, using a specific approach adapted to the age of young people, either in schools or through specific workshops.

Specific activities

In particular, the AVIFA association offers the “Living as a couple” program (Parcours Vivre en Couple), which is aimed at couples who are married or not, believers or not, and who have been together for at least three years. Once a month for a year, 4 to 5 couples meet with a facilitator couple to take a time out together to discuss essential themes for life as a couple. In addition, sharing with other couples in a team enriches exchanges and strengthens the life of each couple involved in this course (you can find a more complete presentation of this course at epicfamily.eu).

The program can be extended for two additional years, with topics also related to children. Personalised support is also offered for couples who have difficulties sharing in groups or who do not have the opportunity to join a course.

Furthermore, AVIFA offers training workshops on various topics aimed at parents, children and young people alike. For example, workshops based on the Faber-Mazlich method are offered, with seven meetings to become aware of the effect of our words and attitude on our children, to discover very concrete tools for positive parent-child communication and to practise these tools through exercises and role-playing so they can be easily used at home.

Contact: www.avifa.ch

Time Out

Switzerland

Mission, vision and values

In 2011, the leaders of the organisation “New Families” of the Focolare in Switzerland thought about offering families a moment of pause, peace and relaxation in these stressful and challenging times. This is how the extended weekend came about, which was given the appropriate name: Time Out. The Time Out is a family weekend that takes place annually. It is aimed at families with young and/or adolescent children, grandparents and individuals.

The Time Out has taken place over Pentecost in different locations in Switzerland and Germany. About 100 people take part in «Time Out» every year. For the participating families and individuals, a varied program addresses head, heart and hand, whereby heart and hand are given more weight.

Specific activities

“Time Out” addresses families holistically and a lot of space is given to mutual sharing. During the weekend, the families and their needs should be at the centre. This experience of fellowship with other like-minded families is especially nourishing and the families take these values home afterwards.

During the weekend, many moments of personal exchange are offered to the participants allowing them to build deep connections and friendships with others. A family in crisis can receive some support and encouragement from another family. The climate at “Time Out” is characterised by a real spirit of community and even the preparation is lived accordingly. The aim is for everyone to feel that they belong and are not just part of their own family but of a much larger one.

Above all, the preparing couples and individuals see each participant as a uniquely valuable human being and try to meet them in this attitude.

Contact:

Switzerland: www.fokolar-bewegung.ch/de/seite/familie or

www.focolari-montet.ch/de/nachrichten/eine-auszeit-fuer-familien

Akademie für Familiencoaching

Germany

Mission, vision and values

The Akademie für Familiencoaching trains certified family coaches competent in parenting and family counselling. This includes the fields of child, youth and family coaching.

Family coaching makes sense when family situations and challenges are a burden in daily life. These may be during phases of intense child development, such as the stage of defiance and puberty, or conflicts between parents.

Practice shows that families often wait long before deciding to involve a family coach. If problems are suppressed for a long time, short-term help is usually required. Every discussion leaves traces. The sooner action is taken with a family coach, the sooner the family system can recover.

Specific activities

The task of family coaching is to accompany couples who want to experience each other as parents and lovers and accompany children in the best way.

It is usual for problems to arise. The Akademie für Familiencoaching’s professionals offer consultations to help parents raise their children through their childhood, to accompany them through various experiences, dreams, values and hopes, knowing that all of these flow into raising children.

They offer professional support and specific concrete tools to help families solve many potential problems that may arise due to the expectations of people involved in family dynamics, starting with the mother or father, beyond grandparents and teachers.

Contact: www.akademie-fuer-familiencoaching.de

The PaarBalance Online Coaching Course

Germany

Mission, vision and values

PaarBalance is an interactive online tool that guides the individual partner in a focused and fun way to acquire step-by-step “ingredients for a successful relationship”, scientifically proven by more than 50 years of couple research.

PaarBalance aims to help couples overcome common barriers, such as financial burdens, fear of stigma, long waiting lists, logistical concerns or difficulty scheduling appointments. It is based on the identified need to offer couples more accessible help for relationship distress, such as internet-based interventions.

The PaarBalance program aims to offer an effective self-guided intervention to improve the relational satisfaction of people with relationship problems, being aware that relational distress within the couple is often strongly associated with mental health problems, worse social functioning and lower quality of life. Only a minority of struggling couples undertake effective couples therapy.

Specific activities

The core of the PaarBalance program consists of 18 consecutive sessions on relevant relational topics, including a psychoeducational video, two exercises and three tasks to do at home (of personal choice). People enrolled can do one or two interactive sessions of about 20 minutes each per week.

Before the program begins, a status quo survey (current state of the relationship quality) is conducted to understand how the relationship is currently experienced and structured. They then receive feedback on the “profile of their relationship.” Each client receives detailed feedback on their personal resources and problem areas on which to invest energy.

The main themes of the 18 PaarBalance sessions can be roughly divided into the following areas: how to improve the atmosphere, how to deal with open desires and conflicts, how to take care of oneself and how to establish different rituals that can be helpful in the relationship. The courses also address sexuality, jealousy and fidelity, stress management and relationship history.

Contact: www.paarbalance.de

EPL & KEK

Germany

Mission, vision and values

The two courses are offered to all men and women who want to do something for their common conversation culture. The EPL (A Partnership Learning Program) supports couples in a preventive way in their search for a good culture of conversation. The KEK (Constructive Marriage and Communication) aims to positively modify or deepen the culture of dialogue already practised by a couple and requires, therefore, more time and method-intensive than EPL. The courses are offered for couples by the Archdiocese of Munich in Germany.

The two courses offer tools to help couples build a relationship based on common ground and consideration, proposing a healthy blend of communicating and listening to the other person. Couples can find out how to do it better in the EPL and KEK courses, discovering how to express themselves so that what they mean comes across correctly and listening so they better understand what the other means. In doing so, differences of opinion and issues can thus be addressed in a more equitable and new way.

Specific activities

During the training sessions, both partners not only learn conversational and problem-solving skills, but more importantly, they practise them together. This is the only way to create balance in the conversation. In the plenary session, the various conversation skills are first introduced through short presentations on multiple areas of the partnership. The focus, however, is on each couple's application of these skills to their problems. Two couples take turns being supported by a trainer.

For more privacy, the conversations between the partners take place in a separate room for each couple, aware that a couple’s conversation is experienced as satisfying when everyone can better understand himself and the other person. The communication tools are, therefore, comparable but the goal and the outcome are different in professional and couple communication.

However, participants must be aware that the primary objective of these courses is not to resolve problems that may arise or have already surfaced at some point in the relationship or marriage. Instead, the courses teach skills that help couples better understand each other and manage their issues.

Contact: www.epl-kek.de

The Rodinkovo Family Reception House

Slovakia

Mission, vision and values

The Rodinkovo Family Reception House is a Christian institution that offers families and engaged couples a space for spiritual and formative programs for every family. His mission is to prepare an environment in which spouses can discover and deepen their marital mission while participating in one of the programs and experience with their children the closeness with other families in a joyful and peaceful atmosphere.

Specific activities

At Rodinkovo Family Reception House, the staff offers programs for spouses and families in collaboration with many other communities, movements and pro-family organisations that care about the well-being of marriages and families. These are open events to which individual married couples or entire families can apply, regardless of their affiliation with any community or organisation.

All programs for spouses and families at Rodinkovo are suitable for everyone. However, people with complicated family backgrounds often experience a considerable shift and healing and they are primarily focused on strengthening marriages:

• Weekend Marriage Meetings aim to strengthen the marriage, especially in communication with each other.
• Weekends are organised explicitly for men and women to enable them to get to know each other better and subsequently reinforce the relationships between them. For example, the weekends organised for women are designed for spouses who are interested in doing something about their relationship through new mutual connections.
• The Father’s Heart Seminar and Mother and Daughter weekend are designed to strengthen the relationship inside the family.

Contact: www.rodinkovo.sk

Kindergarten Sončni žarekhe (Nursery school)

Slovenia

Mission, vision and values

The Kindergarten Sončni Žarek, established in 2003, has developed a tailored educational approach based on a holistic child development perspective in response to social reality. The research focused on determining the critical aspects of mental and educational practice, the users’ perceptions (children, parents and educators) and how well they align with the core values of the kindergarten. Therefore, active learning of communication skills, expression of emotions, skills for solving inevitable conflicts, self-reflection and openness to the world are crucial for the child’s development.

Specific activities

At the beginning of the year, children are observed in their interaction with the adults and each other when they try to find a place in the group to learn social values. Both the child and the adult know that one of the most important things is how you are accepted and how much you are loved.

An essential activity in kindergarten is “the Morning Circle”. With it, various social games allow everyone to establish personal eye contact with each child. It is a “look” that says that only one thing is important: for each child in the group, individual as a person and the whole community. The children express their feelings (choosing the expression faces) so that everyone understands them and can feel empathy. Through this, we promote prosocial emotions and behaviour that help the child in the processes of moral judgement and build his capability of forming relationships.

Common rules help prevent conflicts and are important to children. For example, when observing a group of 5-6-year-old children, we noticed that almost all experienced difficulties, such as stuttering, clumsy and aggressive attitudes. We decided to go deeper into the relationship with these children and invited them to express what they thought of themselves. After a great silence, everyone began to tell, with phrases like: “I think I can draw… listen… observe…”; “I run fast”; “I’m good at football”, etc. We have carefully transcribed each of their expressions to show the importance of the words they uttered. Then everyone drew themselves, writing what each one thought they knew how to do well. We also asked parents to write down what their children mean to them and added their expressions to those of the children who had enriched the poster with colourful drawings.

Zoomton
Couple

France

Mission, vision and values

ZoomtonCouple was born inside the New Families Movement in France, in response to requests from several couples who realised that, while each of them could benefit from training in personal development and spiritual life, they were often at a loss when difficulties or tensions arose within the couple.

Weekends on various aspects of married life already existed, but in 2020, we experienced our first confinement due to the pandemic. The idea then arose to use videoconferences to enable us to reach more participants and create a couple’s life training course.

ZoomtonCouple is a video conference course designed for couples and deals with various aspects of life as a couple and requires the participation of both partners, be they married or not, whether Christian or not. The participants are from France but some come from Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Slovakia, Lebanon and even Canada...). ZoomtonCouple sessions are also organised in Holland and Belgium in Dutch.

Specific activities

ZoomtonCouple is held five evenings a year over two years,and a different couple prepares the topics covered each time. Here are some topics covered during these two years: Balancing work and family life; differences; communication; tenderness; crises; money; love-giving and sexuality; parenthood; openness to society.

After a short presentation, followed by testimonies from different couples, we take time for a private dialogue within each couple, ensuring that the microphone and camera are switched off. This time together, so difficult to preserve in everyday life, is one of the major moments of the evening. Then, to conclude the evening, we take the opportunity to experience a discussion in small groups.

In February 2023, Nouvelle Cité (New City) published a book entitled “Zoom sur la vie de couple” (Zoom on Married Life). This book covers all the themes dealt with in the course and is accompanied by some testimonies and food for thought that may be useful for together moments. This volume cannot replace the experience of the evenings, but it can reach an even wider audience and, for example, be read ‘as a couple’ or used in family groups.

Contac: www.zoomtoncouple.fr

Extraordinary Matrimonial Union (Evangelical Church)

International

Mission, vision and values

The Extraordinary Matrimonial Union (UME) originated in evangelical churches in North America but has since spread to other continents, including Europe.

The UME program is based on the principles of support groups, where all participants have the same needs. It has been designed to provide concrete help to couples going through a period of turbulence in their relationship, ranging from a simple cooling of the relationship to a deep crisis that could lead to separation or divorce.

According to UME, no matter how severe the crisis is, couples discover that many marital problems are due to a lack of knowledge of the key principles of marital dynamics. They also have the chance to understand that this is not a power struggle between them but that each partner has a complementary role of equal importance.

To meet these needs, each group comprises a maximum of seven couples who have committed to a 13-week course: a leader couple, an assistant couple in training and five new couples. Each new couple is assigned a support partner who motivates, advises and assists them throughout the thirteen weeks. It is an educational and therapeutic process based entirely on the Word of God.

Specific activities

The 13-week training course offered by UME represents a time-limited opportunity to provide a method that is easy to measure and organise in terms of follow-up and evaluation since the lessons are very specific and do not change continuously.



At the beginning, entering into this program, all couples can rediscover that they are at the helm of the boat that seemed to be adrift. By uncovering the causes of the problems in their relationship, they can work together to identify the steps they need to take to rebuild and heal their relationship. Later on, they will study the most common areas of marital problems, such as getting to know the roles of each spouse, intimacy, the art of good communication and finances.

The rest of the program covers the healing process, as many marital problems are caused by the emotional damage produced by one or both spouses’ painful pasts or by the wounds they have inflicted on each other. Finally, the last week is designed to inspire and motivate couples who have healed and restored their relationship to invest their lives in helping other couples. At the end of this process, a graduation ceremony is organised.

Contact: www.unmatrimonioextraordinario.org

Worldwide Marriage encounter

International

Mission, vision and values

The “Worldwide Marriage Encounter” method was born from the experience of a young Spanish priest, Father Calvo. In 1960, he was asked to accompany a couple, not as individuals but as a couple. This original request encouraged him to organise meetings for married couples, then retreats that he called “Encuentro Matrimonial”.

In 1967, Father Gallagher, an American Jesuit, took up Father Calvo’s experience and built a framework for sessions to help couples improve their communication. This was the birth of the international “Worldwide Marriage Encounter” movement. Today, it is present on all continents in more than 166 countries. The movement is called “Vivre et aimer” in French-speaking Switzerland, France and Quebec.



The “Marriage Encounter” approach is offered to couples, but it is also open to priests, consecrated persons and young people thinking of committing themselves to a life together.

Specific activities

The movement offers two training weekends. The first one, “Love and commitment”, is aimed at young people planning to commit themselves to a life as a couple and wish to reflect on the meaning of this commitment. The second, “Loving over time”, is intended for established couples, married or not, priests and consecrated persons who wish to deepen their relationship with each other, with others and God.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter offers both human and spiritual accompaniment during various weekends to deepen elements of pedagogy or reflections on the spirituality of life as a couple and of marriage. They provide communication tools for better dialogue in all life situations, according to a scheme based on written communication. Using the three keywords of Jesuit pedagogy: “Thank you, Forgive me, Please”, each person writes down their feelings about a situation of disagreement or joy in the form of a guided “love letter”. The letter is exchanged and each person receives the other’s feelings without judgement. A dialogue allows the situation to be explored in more depth, if necessary, later.

In addition, couples and priests who wish to attend meet regularly in groups made up of 3 to 5 couples for interactions and deepening of various important themes in the life of the couple and the community. Evenings and weekends are also offered to all members, prepared by a few couples, which allow participants to deepen their understanding of the chosen theme.

Contact:

Switzerland: www.vivre-et-aimer.org       

Germany: www.wwme.org

Austria: www.marriage-encounter.at

Slovakia: www.mstretnutia.sk

Slovenia: rektor@svjozef.si (P. Tomaž Mikuš)

The New Families Movement of the Focolare Movement

International

Mission, vision and values

The New Families Movement, an affiliated institution of the Focolare Movement, was established in 1967. It comprises families who aim to radiate, particularly in the family world, the values that promote universal brotherhood and support for the dignity and uniqueness of every person without exclusion. “New Families” is committed to promoting a family culture and appropriate family policies through conferences and publications, collaborating with various educational agencies.

New Families offers guidance and support for young people transitioning to married life. Over the years, it has also focused on couples in crisis, already separated or in new unions and those in widowhood.

Specific activities

The “New Families” Movement conducts trainings, mentoring and multidimensional family support activities. For example, it offers exchange groups to any couple who wishes to meet periodically with other couples from the same city or region to exchange about their life and challenges.

The lifestyle of the people who are part of the “New Families” movement wants to be grounded in living Gospel, having as its basis the anthropological vision of the human being, trying to translate it into the life of a couple, the raising of children. Participation in the life of “New Families” is also open to families of other religions or beliefs, where each lives in what is suitable and consistent with its principles. Understanding how much this “osmosis” between partially different visions often enriches each family.

The “New Families” Movement seeks to bring about a universal sharing of goods (understood in the broadest sense of the term), for example, communion and sharing of the many educational projects or communion of the many solidarity actions created for those in need, going as far as sharing even surplus money as far as possible to each family. The dream is that all goods circulate more and more and are shared on a planetary level, especially with those most in need.

Contact:

International: www.focolare.org/famiglienuove/en

Switzerland: www.fokolar-bewegung.ch/de/seite/familie

Germany: www.fokolar-bewegung.de/initiativen/familie

Austria: www.fokolar-bewegung.at/initiativen/familie

Slovakia: www.focolare.sk

Slovenia: www.gibanjefokolarov.si