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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:...

Living for a United World at UNESCO

Chantal Grevin, “ambassador” of the NGO New Humanity to UNESCO, shared with us something about her life, her work, and a new proposal for the United World Week. “From my window everything looks white,” Chantal Grevin tells me via Skype,...

The United World Project at UNESCO

Chantal Grevin, first representative of the NGO New Humanity, participated in the 39th Session of UNESCO Member States General Conference in Paris, where she presented some good practices proposed by the Youth for a United World in the fight against...

Rosario: a shared vegetable garden

In the city of Rosario, Argentina, a group of Youth for a United World made a shared vegetable garden in the backyard of a suburban school and taught the students how to cultivate and take care of it. For three...

Lebanon: the land’s lesson for a ‘good life’

“Lebanon? Well, Lebanon is a real case-study of the world of the twenty-first century. In today’s world, information, ideas and people move incredibly fast, and the consequence is that even in those countries where there used to be a clear...

The Noche Buena Project: The Longest Christmas

The Project of the Youth for a United World of the Philippines and the long Christmas tradition of the Archipelago. You must know that Christmas in the Philippines is a special and very, very long season! The countdown begins on...

Bringing back a humane approach into the Mediterranean Sea

Gennaro Giudetti’s commitment in international volunteering to bring back a humane approach where it is denied. Gennaro Giudetti is 27 years old, he is from Taranto and along with the crew of the Sea Watch 3 ship of the Sea...

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A “SCiC” economy

Today, at the Polo Lionello Bonfanti, in the Burchio neighbourhood, Municipality of Incisa Valdarno, Province of Florence, Italy, the official inauguration of a multimedia exhibition of social, civil, and communion economy - "SCiC" – will take place. There is also...

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The die is thrown in Cordoba. Another UWW activity in Argentina

Last Saturday, the United World Week was closed in Cordoba, Argentina, with the first event aimed at introducing the Dice of Peace, prior to the inauguration of the Monument of the Dice of Peace that will be erected in a...

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