Our Croatian partner UEZ: Empowering people through agriculture!

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The Association UEZ is a non-profit non-governmental organization working in civil sector creating programs for human and social development in the field of economics, togetherness, environmental care, health, education, sports, communication, personal development for kids and youngsters. The special aspect about this NGO is that it follows the principles of the Economy of communion, a culture of giving constructing ethical goals and values in business.

From 2015, the association recognized sustainable living, ecology and social entrepreneurship as topics that need to be imposed to youth and society through non-formal learning activities. Realizing new projects based on these topics, the association has expended its scope of action, target group and stakeholders and gained new members, mostly organic agriculture farmers.

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