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The 21st century’s most characteristic phenomenon is the megalopolis.
Its impact extends to every society in every corner of the world,
from North to South and East to West.
The earth's inhabitants, who once spent their lives in the rural or
industrial environments that characterized the 19th century, are now
adopting a new culture and a new way of life as they learn to live
together in major cities.
The elements that united these groups in the past - rites, cycles,
customs and traditions - no longer exist.
Armed with this new perspective on the world, they are free to contemplate
the future and their shared future lives.
But there are those on the fringes of the urban population who have
been left behind in this collective project: they are the poor, the
forgotten, the excluded, people in desperate situations or living
on their own, victims of mental illness, runaway children...
Samusocial is a means of seeking out those who have nothing more of
their own - those who have been abandoned or cast out, stripped of
everything since childhood and prevented from taking part in this
collective endeavour.
Its goal is to come to their aid, by offering security and a chance
for renewed hope.
It is no more than an initial means of addressing the situation, but
one that can potentially lend new momentum to their lives and reveal
new ways of ensuring what we call their integration and growth as
they rejoin the human community.
Doctor Xavier Emmanuelli
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