Partnership in solidarity

53. The International Organisations must work as real partners with the groups to whose assistance they come. This produces a form of solidarity with a brotherly and sisterly face, in dialogue, mutual trust, and respectfully listening to one another.

John Paul II has given a sign of his particular interest in this very sensitive area of partnership by instituting the "John Paul II for the Sahel" Foundation to help combat desertification in the countries south of the Sahara, and the "Populorum Progressio" Foundation to help the poorest people of Latin America, both of which are managed by the local churches themselves in their respective regions(⁷⁷).