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Caring for others

« The only ones among you who will truly be happy are those who will have sought a way to serve others. » Albert Schweitzer

Demographic explosion

As 2 more billion humans will be welcome on Earth by 2050, it will be impossible to offer our future citizens the way of life of the average American of today.

Accelerated urbanization

As global warming pushes farmers off their farms and wealth creation is mostly coming from cities, 75% of earthlings will be urban tomorrow.

Territorial inequalities

As the atlas of the future world is increasingly dissimilar to the geographical boundaries inherited from political history, the gap widens between the inhabitants of the same country.

Violated rights

As access to basic needs remains as fundamental as human rights to protect minorities, the oppressed and the most vulnerable among us.

Education for sustainable development

Focusing our development on a more immaterial economy: that of knowledge, to learn how to share the limited resources of this ‘little flying rock’ amongst all of its inhabitants.

Access to basic needs

Providing to those who have nothing enough to eat a way to relieve their hunger and also to allow them to find proper housing with access to clean water, sanitation and electricity.

Glocal solidarities

Creating new forms of close and distant support around common values, in real and virtual worlds, that favour strong links between urbanity and rural proximity.

Stand up for the most vulnerable

Prioritizing assistance to those who, in an increasingly complex, globalized and changing world cannot make their voices heard and need lawyers and rights.

Discover the Shamengo pioneers who care for others!

Rosanne Montminy

Quebec / Canada
I help the elderly be valued in society by changing how families interact.
Rosanne Montminy is in charge of the Grandparents’ Home in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, which she founded in 1998. This not-for-profit organisation seeks to improve intergenerational ties and reduce loneliness amongst the elderly by putting their skills to good use in a variety of activities: homework assistance, singing, knitting, sewing and weaving, but also in DIY, cooking, running of a book club, etc. The aims of the Grandparents’ Home are to improve cross-generational relationships, prevent family conflicts and encourage the eldery to share their valuable experience and knowledge.

A Villa dedicated to caring for others

With dematerialization trends in economy, the Villa Shamengo, as in the great era of the caravanserai, is an open space where all the key players of a society in transition meet and exchange. Rich or poor, sick or healthy, educated or illiterated, connected or isolated, the practice of working with others will be the key to enter.

Shamengo School

Learn how to care for others: One of our four core teaching components of a new art of leaving