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United World Workshop acts to highlight and promote endeavors, initiatives, projects and programs which can impact on building up a more united world.

A “different” outlook on the crisis in Ecuador

By Catalina Hinojosa An account of the recent crisis in Ecuador from a peace-building perspective. In March 2019 the Ecuadorian government signed an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a loan of $4,200million. The conditions imposed on the country...

Time to dare, time to give

A 24-hour ‘Hackathon’ in Caserta, Italy, targeted the creation of a digital platform fusing technology with social and environmental sustainability, plus the capacity to promote the concept of “gift”, “circular economy” and other values. It was sparked off by the...

“A better Africa can only result in a better world”

More than one hundred young people from 10 African countries gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the second summer school of the project “Together for a New Africa”. From 27 December 2019 to 5 January 2020, more than 100 young people...

Welcome, protect, integrate

Stories, peoples and migration in Latin America. A perspective from Peru. Interview with Silvano Roggero by Paolo Balduzzi We are talking of a real exodus. Venezuela has seen the second largest mass migration of a nation’s population in the world....

Amazon Project, a transforming initiative

It came about as an action of Catholic evangelization that grew up into a consolidated project that generates relationships of reciprocity between locals and volunteers. Óbidos is one of the many villages on the banks of the Amazon River. It...

Want to unite the world? Start singing!

By Conleth Burns Conleth Burns from Northern Ireland, currently part of the United World Project’s Rome office, tells his experience in the “Mariapoli Romana” Community Choir. I never joined my school choir. I thought I wasn’t good enough and it...

From Lebanon to Bolivia, Protests with a Sense of Unity

Political and social conflict has characterized many South American countries in the last two months. Almost with a ‘domino effect’, problems started in Ecuador, then exploded in Chile and, at the same time, in Bolivia (where the crisis still continues)...

The toughest challenge in the city of Man

By Giovanna Pieroni. In a country where undernourishment is one of the main causes of the infant mortality AFN onlus works to save many children’s lives. Crossing a liana bridge is not a difficult task, except for when one has...

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