Women around us who live in very poor rural areas around the cities, where there is an absence of security for them, neither in the streets nor in their own homes. Women who do not see why celebrate on March 8. Women who only earn half as much as men, simply because they are women. Women forced to accept sexual favours for a contract, abused women, humiliated, exploited, used, murdered, women trapped in patriarchal societies.

Most of them are young. They can be seen near railway stations or in queues in front of local administration offices. They are looking for guidance information on housing or possibilities to obtain food. Their poor knowledge of the local language makes their communication difficult and too few people take time to answer their questions. In turn, when a dialogue is started, when trust overcomes fear, when brotherhood is lived, everything becomes possible and everybody comes out a winner. Whom are we referring to? Migrants, of course!

With its 4-year plan adopted in Nantes in October 2009 and worked out in continental seminars, the WMCW wants to open up to new prospects for and with the migrants. While some are building physical or internal walls, it is proposing to build bridges. It announces the possibility of living together and its members are given the means to build up a real fraternity.