The common good of building community
Since 1976, we have been supporting initiatives for reception, inclusion, and sustainable development in Calabria, promoting rights and practices of solidarity-based coexistence alongside the communities and territories of the South.
About us
We are groups of people based in Calabria who put into practice models of solidarity-based living and welcoming communities.
Since 1976, our mission has been to promote human, civil, political, and social rights. We develop cultural and social policies and initiatives rooted in—and created alongside—the communities of the South.
Comunità Progetto Sud is an association founded in 1976 in Lamezia Terme. Guided by the priceless value of human dignity and the sanctity of every individual, as well as the principle of social solidarity, we champion human, civil, political, and social rights. Being based and active in Calabria—while maintaining a perspective focused on the Global South—is central to our history and our unique identity.
We strive to ensure that every individual can exercise their rights, build their autonomy, and play an active role in shaping the common good, recognizing everyone’s capacity to contribute and take responsibility.
Through welcoming initiatives, social services of general interest (including health and education), training, employment, culture, and civic participation, we develop social and cultural policies and interventions rooted in—and created alongside—the communities of the South.
Download the CPS 2020 brochure
Comprehensive presentation of the Comunità Progetto Sud
Registration with RUNTS
Single National Third Sector Register
Mission
Born as a shared living experience, Comunità Progetto Sud is today a “group of groups”; it develops and disseminates inclusive policies and other forms of collective solidarity to enhance the value of Calabria and the “Souths.”
We stand alongside the most vulnerable through local care and outreach services, create opportunities for dignified work, and build pathways to autonomy with individuals and groups.
We promote inclusion and active citizenship, while fostering a culture of peace and non-violence. We develop volunteering and social entrepreneurship initiatives, actively opposing injustice as well as Mafia-style and clientelist practices.
We generate participatory democracy processes through innovative policies, provide health, social, and educational services, and promote cultures and practices centered on integral ecology.
We collaborate with local communities, institutions, and Italian and international social and business organizations through initiatives rooted in an ethical and sustainable economy.
Vision
We aim to contribute to a world of supportive and inclusive communities, where people—especially the most vulnerable—play a leading role in building the common good.
We believe the common good is realized through the meeting of diverse perspectives, mutual listening, and shared responsibility. Within this framework, community-based services foster individual autonomy; solidarity-based economies create stable, dignified work; and a culture of civic engagement recognizes diversity as an asset.
The South becomes the starting point for a laboratory of change, where integral ecology and an ethical, sustainable economy intertwine to generate autonomy and co-responsibility. Local areas are revitalized alongside their inhabitants through actions that unite rights and duties, social justice and legality.
Values
Comunità Progetto Sud is inspired by the priceless value of the dignity and sanctity of every human being and by the principle of social solidarity, which fosters equality and equal opportunities.
Our values can be summarized in three keywords:
Equality
It speaks to society’s attention to every individual within it—particularly the most vulnerable and marginalized—through the co-construction of social, economic, and political integration.
Pace
It is the word raised in opposition to conflicts—whether military, social, or relational—to mobilize locally and globally and to educate ourselves in justice and peaceful coexistence.
Environment
understood as integral ecology, it commits us to ethical and civic co-responsibility towards “Creation” and its creatures, for the safeguarding and promotion of the ecosystem.
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A closer look at our fundamental principles and values
The common good of building community.
Via Conforti, 10
88046 Lamezia Terme (CZ)
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