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History

1959

The Schoenstatt movement is born in Paraguay, which from the beginning was administered by the Schoenstatt Fathers, who gave all their time and work to the family. In addition to their pastoral tasks, they created an administrative structure that was accompanied by volunteers who offered their time to achieve a better organization.

The structure was growing with the passage of time, which forced the Fathers to spend a lot of time on these tasks.

1998

Father Ludovico Tedeschi, then director of the Movement, hired Bati Pampliega to set up a Central Administration managed in a more professional manner.

2000

Father Antonio Cosp assumes the responsibility of the board of directors and closely monitors all the new administrative and financial management.

2006

After having come a long way, and always looking for different ways to generate resources that would allow maintaining all the infrastructure, growing investments and dealing with labor and fiscal commitments, the visit of Father Karl was received, at that time Treasurer General of the Schoenstatt Fathers, who analyzed the situation in which the administration found itself and expressly requested that the Fathers be relieved of the administrative burden of expenses and management of the workers, so that they can deal exclusively with their pastoral tasks facing the great growth that the Schoenstatt family was experiencing.

Mission

We want to build ourselves as an efficient, innovative and inclusive organization that, through teamwork, provides sustainable resources to a large part of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement so that it fulfills its purpose of evangelizing and forming positive leaders for society in all its fields. based on the teachings and pedagogical and spiritual orientation of Father José Kentenich.

Vision

To be a third sector organization, recognized as a management model for the mobilization and channeling of resources of great social impact in the country and the region.