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12.11.2020

The Inkiri Community flourishes with local banks and currency

By Maria Gaglione – Published in Avvenire on 14/12/2019 EoF: Stories – The currency has increased demand for local products and services and strengthened the intensity of social relations. Meeting Diego is a chance for us to feel contagious joy...

10.11.2020

A school the size of a city

The educational experience of a high school in Prato, Tuscany, where students are involved in activities of “care” to heal the wounds of the city. Her father defined her as a ‘non-profit entrepreneur’, and this definition suits her perfectly. In...

06.11.2020

Gen Rosso: Shock of the World

The international performing arts group Gen Rosso has joined our #daretocare campaign by releasing a new song, Shock of the World, about the pressing issue of global pollution. Gen Rosso International Performing Arts Group has released Shock of the World,...

06.11.2020

Australia. Aid for health and education from the profits by Waterjars

By Maria Gaglione – Published in Avvenire on 22/02/2020 EoF: Stories – The Australian experience of Natalia Teguhputri who founded a movement to ensure that part of the profits of the company where she works are allocated to projects for...

03.11.2020

A new economy: the youth’s proposal

“The economy of Francesco”. A year ago, it would probably have been described as an event called by Pope Francis. Today, however, after a year of journeying and working in groups, it is more than that; it is an active...

29.10.2020

Lebanon. A platform for barrier-free employment

By Maria Gaglione – Avvenire 07/02/2020 EoF: Stories – Samer Sfeir, Lebanese entrepreneur, created a networking site for employment supply and demand An economy that does not exclude and leaves no one behind. We have repeated it a thousand times...

27.10.2020

Buddy System for President

Conleth Burns Ahead of the November 3rd election, we speak with Prof. Amy Uelmen from Georgetown University, Washington DC who proposed the “Buddy system[1]” to help voters and communities overcome political polarisation, and Rebecca and Diane, two buddies. The battle...

23.10.2020

Global Compact on Education: Together to look beyond

The “Together to look beyond” event on Thursday 15 October at the Pontifical Lateran University showcased the Global Compact on Education. Organized by the Congregation for Catholic University, the meeting highlighted the need for worldwide change in the field of...

22.10.2020

Indonesia. Agriculture Friendly Drones

By Maria Gaglione #EoF: the Stories – The story of Albertus Gian Dessayes Adriano, Indonesian engineer and founder of Beehive Drones, a start-up that aims to improve the efficiency of natural resources in agriculture through the technology of agricultural drones....

20.10.2020

New ways towards integral ecology: five years after Laudato Si’

From 23 to 25 October, Focolare’s Ecology initiative EcoOne is offering a meeting to examine the impact of “Laudato si’”, the Pope’s encyclical letter on the contemporary world and new ways towards integral ecology. From Castel Gandolfo near Rome, the...

16.10.2020

Building roads to build community

For this #DareToCare story we go to the Central American country of El Salvador, where huge socio-economic disparities are reflected in the abandonment of urban and rural villages. But even where everything seems to be disappearing, something is beginning to...

14.10.2020

Acts of fraternity – Part 2

We go to Australia, Brazil, Germany, the United States and Vietnam, to see and listen to some “small” actions of different people who take care of those close to them....

12.10.2020

Economy of Francesco, the event: where two or more are gathered, nobody alone

by Maria Gaglione -Staff EoF The Economy of Francesco is fast approaching. The gathering in November will be a momentous step within an ongoing process to announce and describe the experience, work, proposals and considerations developed in recent months in...

06.10.2020

Acts of fraternity – Part 1

We go to Australia, Brazil, Germany, the United States and Vietnam, to see and listen to some “small” actions of different people who take care of those close to them....

03.10.2020

Listening to native voices to save the planet

By Alberto Barlocci – Città nuova 370 million descendents of indigenous peoples dwell in around 90 different countries. They have much to say about how to save fire-threatened forests. And they are notably at risk from the coronavirus. If you’ve...

30.09.2020

¡Encontrá Manos!, or “Find the hands”

We interviewed Melina, Ismael and Gaspar, volunteers of the “Encontrá Manos” project that tries to generate spaces of help in Argentina to transform the realities of the communities they encounter. “We do not have the solutions to the world’s problems...

25.09.2020

Cameroon, not just masks

Our focus is on Cameroon, where the population is going through a dramatic economic and social situation, aggravated by the pandemic, but where there is no lack of strong “social friendship” initiatives. You can get the “Longing for Africa” sickness...

22.09.2020

Global citizenship education is the key to progress on Global Goals

By Conleth Burns The NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, Monday, September 14, organized a webinar: “The voice of NGOs: global citizenship to stimulate inclusion and diversity”. Among the speakers were Fidelia and Audrey, representatives of Teens4Unity, an affiliate member of New Humanity....

18.09.2020

#Pillsofhope that dare to put care at the centre

We resume the initiative of telling positive actions,“pills” of hope from different parts of the world, which show how, even in this difficult context, solidarity continues to be contagious. Since March 2020, we at United World Project wanted to tell...

15.09.2020

Michal & democracy

Today, September 15, is International Democracy Day. In his message, Guterres, United Nations General Secretary, proposes to seize this crucial moment when humanity faces the pandemic “to build a fairer, more inclusive and sustainable world with full respect for human...