Welcome to the official EOC website!

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The Economy of Communion (EOC) involves entrepreneurs, workers, managers, consumers and financial operators. It was launched by Chiara Lubich in May of 1991, in Sao Paolo, Brazil, with the aim of building and showing a human society where, following the example of the first Christian community in Jerusalem, "no one among them was in need".

The businesses are the pillar of the project. They freely commit themselves to put their profits in common, dividing them into three parts with the following corresponding goals:

Helping people in need - creating new jobs and intervening to meet their immediate needs beginning with those who share in the spirit that animates the Economy of Communion;
Spreading the "Culture of Giving" and of reciprocity - indispensable and necessary values for an Economy of Communion;
Developing the business - which has to remain effective and competitive even if it is open to gratuitousness.

In addition, the EOC gives life to "industrial poles", or parks, in the small towns of the Focolare Movement, aiming at showing an industrial district at its origin, a living laboratory of an economy of communion.

What's new about the project?

The EoC:

• Emanates from a spirituality of communion, an expression of the charism of unity in civil life;
• Links effectiveness and fraternity;
• Relies on the strength of the culture of giving to change economic behavior;
• Does not consider the poor mainly as a problem, but as a precious resource for the Common Good.

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