
The Teresian Association has been a member of the non-governmental organisations with consultative status with ECOSOC (the UN Economic and Social Council) since 1998 and, as such, has maintained a fairly consistent presence at events relating to the themes chosen over the years: the right to education, the right to development, women, young people and migrants, with these events taking place alternately in Geneva, New York and Rome.



With the aim of reflecting on and taking action regarding environmental justice for the care of the Earth, the Pedro Poveda Higher Institute of Educational Studies (ISESP), the Poveda Cultural Centre (CCP), the Centre for Family Integration (CIF) and the Pedro Poveda Centre for Socio-Cultural Training (CEFOSOP), joined forces to organise the seminar ‘Integral Ecology and Critical Environmental Education’, aimed at staff from these organisations, teachers, students and community leaders; to promote global awareness and action for the protection of life and to jointly develop responses that contribute to establishing a more harmonious relationship with all who inhabit the planet.


Elia Fleta is a singer-songwriter, but also an artist specialising in iconography. She trained in Vipassana meditation in India and has also studied music education, history and theology. Her curiosity has led her to take part in various social projects run by the TA, which she first encountered at a very young age in Lima, Peru. She was motivated by a calling that emerged when she was five years old after watching the film Marcellino, Bread and Wine. In this interview, she tells us about her life as a member of the Teresian Association, now and in the past.

On 21 and 22 May, the New Synod Hall at the Vatican hosted an international meeting organised by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life. Around 200 participants — members of the governing bodies of international associations and movements — gathered to reflect on the theme: “To Serve, accompany and guide: foundations and practices of governance in associations”.





