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The “different” holidays in El Espinal

From 8th to 16th January, during the austral summer, a group of 25 people went back on holiday to El Espinal, a town located between Salta and San Miguel de Tucumán, in the north-west of Argentina. Let’s hear the story...

Greening Africa Together Network

Reforestation, renewable energy, waste management, environmental education. Four keywords for a project that creates a network of the best forces for the African continent, and not only, with a view to universal fraternity. Mal d’Afrique is the so-called nostalgic feeling...

The Art of Loving and a United World

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, we publish below the text of one of her speeches,”The art of loving and the united world,” that was read, in January...

Plastic Bags Ban Applauded In Kenya

Many Kenyans have continued to applaud the move by the government to ban plastic bags used for commercial and household packaging terming it as a great move to curb the plastic bag menace. In August 2017, the Kenyan government banned...

Art and the Ideal of the United World: Two Inseparable Pillars

Latin American artists of different ages and disciplines gathered in Uruguay to pursue a path that aims to deepen the Latin American identity and the ability to interconnect the art and the ideal of the united world in an intrinsic...

From the global to universal

oday’s article is a piece by Pasquale Ferrara, who is currently the Italian Ambassador to Algeria. It was first published in the Atlas of Universal fraternity, the first edition of the United World Project file (2014), and it provides an...

Crunelab, the “Made in Italy” by African hands

Crunelab is not only a solidarity tailor workshop, but a point of meeting and a real multi-cultural workshop to improve one’s knowledge, talents, and cultural approaches. There is a bit of Africa concentrated right in the heart of Tuscany, in...

On migrants… the union makes an effort

Seven political proposals for a new “agenda”. Citizenship law reform, new ways to enter Italy, legal status for “rooted” foreigners on an individual basis, repeal of illegal immigration status, extension of the Sprar network (Sytem of Protection of Asylum Seekers...

An environmental engineer for a united world

Amanda Casimiro has dark, curly hair framing a smiling, open, and sweet face. After having texted each other for a while via email, today, thanks to Skype, I can finally associate a face to her email address. «These days I...

Music knows no borders

We caught up with Nancy Uelmen, composer, singer and keyboardist in the all-female international performing arts group Gen Verde. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, for the past twenty-five years Nancy Uelmen has been living and working in the...

#ZeroHunger A new goal for the united world

FAO, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, involved the Teens for Unity and the Youth for a United World, the new generations of the Focolare Movement in the whole world, to achieve the goal: #ZeroHunger. An invitation to commitment...

The Consolata Catholic parish church: giving a hand to needy

he homeless and street children of Nairobi, Kenya, have a reason to smile after a Catholic parish started a program for rehabilitating and educating them in a bid to help them find a meaning in life. Most of the homeless...

FraterniTALES: coming soon

February 1 will be the starting day of “FraterniTALES,” the United World Contest that will select among the participants 30 Ambassadors of the United World. Let us discover the backstage of the Contest through the words of Federica Chiaro and...

An Introduction to Peace Sprit Foundation

he year 2017 left us with a nice surprise. Going through our inbox, we found a message from Bahare Safavi, a young woman from Iran who collaborates with the Peace Sprit Foundation, based in Teheran, as a translator. She reached...

Paola, the great-grandmother from Rome who builds wells and schools in Burkina Faso

New frontiers for a new humanity.” This is how the Italian journalist Franco di Mare entitled his interview to Paola Garbini Siani, founder and volunteer of the Association “La Goccia Onlus” during an information program on the Italian National Public...

Ancona: a “different” New Year’s Eve

From Ancona, Italy, we received this small seed of brotherhood, which came about on the occasion of New Year’s Eve 2018. Here’s what they wrote to us. « With our friends of the city of Ancona, with whom we try...

United World Project: the Contest

he United World Project, the Youth for a United World and the NGO New Humanity are launching FraterniTALES, a contest to recruit ‘United World Ambassadors’ and to promote the official recognition of the United World Week by the UN. One...

Zone freed by joy

On November 19, in Cordoba, Argentina, an event took place in one of the largest parks in the city, to take on additional commitments for social ties, peace, and dialogue. A “freed zone” usually refers to public spaces where police...

Our Christmas

Today, all Christian faithful celebrate Christmas, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. We would like to take part in this celebration by making memory of a birth that concerns us closely, the creation of the United World Project. We are...

Lucca: Little Italian Citizens Growing Up

A friend of the United World Project who lives in Lucca, Italy, informed us about an initiative that has been promoted by her Municipality since 2013, on the occasion of the World Day for the Rights of Children and Adolescents:...

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