Emmaus (charity)

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Emmaus

Official logo of the Emmaus International organisation, since November 2014
Founded	1949
Founder	Abbé Pierre
Type	Not-for-profit
Focus	Poverty, exclusion and homelessness
Location	Paris, France
Area served	International
Website	www.emmaus-international.org

Emmaus (French: Emmaüs, pronounced [e.ma.ys]) is an international solidarity movement founded in Paris in 1949 by Catholic priest and Capuchin friar Abbé Pierre to combat poverty and homelessness. Since 1971 regional and national initiatives have been grouped under a parent organization, Emmaus International, now run by Jean Rousseau, representing 350 groups in 37 countries, offering a range of charitable services.

Emmaus is a secular organisation, but communities around the world have kept the name because of its symbolism. The biblical story, found in the Gospel of Luke, describes how two men saw the resurrected Jesus on the road to the town of Emmaus, and so regained hope. The organization's guiding principle can be found in the Universal Manifesto of Emmaus International:

Serve those worse off than yourself before yourself. Serve the most needy first.^[1]