Centro Missionario Diocesi Lucca

In the field of solidarity and international cooperation

It promotes dialogue with communities of men, women and children on the peripheries of the world through the presence of its missionaries, in order to support all forms of encounter, knowledge and exchange. C.M.D. supports missionaries and social projects mainly in Rwanda, Brazil, Burkina Faso and Thailand/Vietnam, as well as small interventions in India and Congo.

The areas of intervention cover health (the fight against AIDS and child malnutrition, the fight against blindness, the rehabilitation and re-education of children with motor and neurological disabilities, the fight against neonatal mortality), education (the fight against illiteracy and the marginalization of children, the rehabilitation of street children and those addicted to alcohol or psychotropic substances, the vocational training of young people), as well as the exploitation of renewable energies to guarantee electricity and water for civil, health or agro-pastoral purposes.

At local level

Promote thematic courses in schools at all levels and in the direction of citizenship to raise awareness of
- new lifestyles and critical consumption,
- inter-religious and intercultural dialog,
- North-South imbalances in the world and global education,
- food sovereignty, the right to human mobility, environmental sustainability.

It promotes training courses for those interested in gaining experience in missions and, in particular, acts as a spokesperson and witness to what is happening on the existential peripheries of the world in order to guarantee critical and unfiltered information. It supports local meetings, debates and film festivals for schools and citizens, in order to guarantee direct knowledge and an alternative reading of contemporary geopolitical and social dynamics.

It promotes youth exchanges and mission experiences in different parts of the world