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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.

Burundi: “It can be done!”

The story of Rose from Burundi who, thanks to a community microcredit project, has opened up her own restaurant. Rose lives in Burundi and has six children. A few years ago she opened her own restaurant where she prepares meals...

A peace convoy from Italy reaches Lviv, Ukraine

By Carlo Cefaloni The Italian delegation of Stop the War Now experienced three intense days, as they travelled to Lviv to bring aid, assist the most vulnerable refugees and build the foundations of a closer relationship with the Ukrainian civil...

How Jevev NGO turned Benin’s invasive water hyacinth into ‘green gold’

By Maria Gaglione Economy of Francesco in Africa: the invasive plant from which compost is produced has become a resource for local agriculture. The water hyacinth is an aquatic plant of extraordinary tropical beauty, with purple flowers and thick stems...

Guatemala: technology at the service of indigenous culture

“Educa” is a project that has offered 25 young people in Guatemala training in computer programming and web design. Some of the scholarship holders come from indigenous ethnic groups and want to put the technical skills they have acquired at...

“I produced weapons, today I build peace”

The story of Vito Alfieri Fontana: from landmines to commitment to fraternity. “I know for sure that peace is necessary because I have seen what a war is. I have experienced that empathy is sometimes not enough, it is necessary...

Evil will not have the last word

By Città Nuova Editorial Staff The story of a reader who lives near the Fernetti border with Slovenia. The embrace of an entire community for Ukrainian refugees. I live a few kilometres from the border where Ukrainian refugees are arriving....

Syria, the Saliba convenience store will soon lift its shutters

He thought he would be forced to leave his city, Homs, and his elderly parents to seek work in another country. Instead, 22-year-old Saliba is about to open a minimarket in the same place where his father worked as a...

Poland in solidarity

More than 2 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed the borders into neighbouring countries since the beginning of the war. More than 1,200,000 of them have been welcomed in Poland. They are mainly women and children from every part of...

#DARETOCARE: United World Week 2022

In the very delicate international context we are living, the theme of “care” is increasingly pertinent, once again the focus of the next United World Week, from 1 to 7 May 2022. Here we go! We are very close to...

Ukraine emergency – updates

The following updates come to us from Mira, a Slovenian focolarina who lives in Ukraine and has been working with Caritas-Spes Ukraine for a long time. Donate Now 04 March – Ukraine, the commitment of Caritas-Spes continues The first trucks...

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