SOLODARYDAR

This space is a formative offer that it is born because in Manos Unidas we want to promote the solidarity, and we are putting in practice from the Instituto Valle de Mexicali, Instituto Salvatierra and the Instituto San Felipe de Jesús.

When we see the injustice of the social conditions in which today many human beings live, the most urgent reaction before these situations is the SOLIDARITY. John Paul II proposed to cultivate the virtue of solidarity, that is, emphasize the need to conduct continuous and not confined to sporadic acts of goodwill.
The Social Doctrine of the Church meant by solidarity «radical uniformity and equality of all men and all peoples in all times and places, men and peoples, which constitute a total or family unit, which admits in its level generic differences occurring unnatural, and morally compelling and seriously every one to the practice of social cohesion, strong, creative coexistence. Cohesion in mutual service, both in the active sense as in the passive sense». We understand the solidarity as synonymous with equality, fraternity, mutual aid and allow for very close to the concepts of «responsibility, generosity, selflessness, cooperation and participation».

The current education reform is oriented to the strengthening of life skills calls, so that training efforts are aimed at strengthening the character in terms of attitudes and values, preparing the students to attach, adjust and contribute to significant and important changes in society.
We therefore believe that the Escuela Solidaria Program will promote a culture of solidarity we will be encouraging citizen participation and harnessing the potentials of students, the momentum of the culture of legality, the formation of a young person supported by an education in values, and performing various actions to promote social and community development.
The student or High School student with her own personal problems of adjustment, for balance, with diverse experiences, seeks to achieve personal fulfillment, so to find solidarity in the valuable contribution that can not only be come to appreciate what is around you but can give a meaning to his life, raise self-esteem, better develop personally, intellectually, morally and socially.

Escuela Solidaria for School groups and communities, is a program that seeks to cultivate the virtue of solidarity.
Currently there is a tendency in the media to strengthen the selfishness, and as usually we learn a lot through imitation of models and the interaction with the environment, hence we have experiences that contact with groups or marginalized communities so that they question their own lives, but especially to discover what can make to improving the lives of others.
The Church should organize their parishes, movements and the laity as major promoters of this mission. “It's a mission that must respond to the needs of our peoples, poverty, unemployment. We must be supportive. Proclaim Jesus Christ demands to be united and take a preferential option for the poor. We can not stop working to overcome poverty and suffering of the poor, on behalf of the Gospel. You can not separate evangelism of human dignity and right to live.” Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, OFM, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy (26/may/07)