Stories from around the globe show how a united world is already in motion. This platform highlights experiences, initiatives, and projects from people and communities working for unity and peace. Explore what’s happening and get inspired.
<h2>The RImPRESA Project started off!</h2> <p><em>It is aimed at offering a support to the recovery of many small productive, trade, and tourism businesses affected by the earthquake in Central Italy, in the areas along the Via Salaria, in the territory between Amatrice and Ascoli Piceno, in the Val Nerina and in the Abruzzo Region. Rural areas, whose economy was mainly based on agriculture and sheep and cattle livestock, and whose customers were their same population along with tourists who came in summer and for the weekends.</em></p> <p>It all started after the earthquake that last August destroyed the town of Accumoli, in the Province of Rieti, Central Italy.</p> <p>A few days later, Federica left her home, in the Southern Province of Rome, officially:<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">«T</span>o go and check the condition of the house inherited by my husband<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">». I</span>n fact, as she adds <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">«B</span>ecause Roberto and his family were from Accumoli. After his death, we created an association of social promotion called<em> </em><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/abbraccioplanetario/">Abbraccio planetario</a></strong><em> </em>(Planetary Hug) to carry out actions that promote the values in which he believed, such as the care and love for our neighbours, especially the weakest. I went to Accumoli because I wanted to see with my own eyes the actual situation and what we could do to help them<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">».</span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">International Photo Competition 2017</span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Show that the world is full of sustainable alternatives in food and energy!</span></h2> <p>The campaign <strong><a href="http://www.cidse.org/rethinking-development/change-for-the-planet-care-for-the-people.html">Change for the planet - Care for the People</a></strong> has launched it’s first <a href="http://www.cidse.org/articles/rethinking-development/photocompetition.html">International Photo Competition</a> inviting participants to submit photographs of inspiring, citizen-led sustainable initiatives around food and energy.</p>
<p>1100 people from 49 countries, involved in the Economy of Communion, will meet Pope Francis on Saturday, February 4, 2017.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><em>The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which is celebrated in the Northern Hemisphere, on January 18 – 25, offers an opportunity to highlight not only many events that are taking place around the world, but also the daily dialogue of life among ordinary Christians, aroused by Chiara Lubich's charism.
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The year 2017 started with the news of the umpteenth terrorist attack. Pope Francis invitation to work for peace, and from Istanbul: “We want to continue living for peace”.
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Face to face with Piotr Zygulski, born in 1993, from a Polish father and an Italian mother, student of the Sophia University Institute. An insight on why he made such an important decision.</em></p>
<p><em>Il Programma di Turismo Sostenibile e Solidale nel Nord ovest dell'Argentina (TSNOA) è rivolto a 600 persone di cinque comunità indigene e contadine, caratterizzate da disoccupazione e povertà, che hanno a loro volta generato violenza, alcolismo, perdita d'identità culturale e migrazione forzata dalle rispettive località.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The Solidarity and Sustainable Tourism Programme in the North West of Argentina (TSNOA) is designed for 600 people of five indigenous and peasant communities, characterized by unemployment and poverty, which have in turn generated violence, alcoholism, loss of cultural identity and forced migration from their respective locations.</em></p>
<p></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The three-year project Chance For Tomorrow was founded to provide continuity and consolidate the educational and training activities carried out by about 8 years by the Foundation Koz Kazah in Shubra community, one of the most popular neighborhoods of Cairo.</em></p>
Dialogue & Interculture
New Humanity NGO presented the M.E.D.I.T.erraNEW project — co-financed by the Erasmus Plus Program — to the Youth Section of UNESCO in Paris.
Peace & Human Rights
Amid the rubble of Syria, art becomes an act of resistance. Discover the story of Aeham Ahmad, the “The Pianist of Yarmouk”, who defied the horror of war with the invincible beauty of his musical notes.
Operation Mato Grosso is working on over 100 missions across Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, all rooted in education, hard work, and solidarity. Jacopo Manara, who has been a volunteer for years, tells us their story.
An interview on communication with Michele Zanzucchi, journalist and writer, former director of Città Nuova, professor of communication at Sophia University Institute and at the Pontifical Gregorian University, and author of around forty books.
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