Workshop

This year, in the fifth “Holidays with a difference” at El Espinal, Argentina, a group of “sustainable tourists” visited a new honey extraction and filter unit created in collaboration with an association of local women, working to boost artisan honey...

By Stefania Tanesini During the past 15 years, the Focolare Centre ”Nueva Vida” has carried out a very important social action, that supports young people and their families in an area on the outskirts of Montevideo,Uruguay. Luis Mayobre, director of...

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...

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...

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...

The after-school experience for the children of the nomad camp of Pistoia, Italy, reported through the voice of Cristina, mother, teacher, and volunteer in the small wooden school in the camp of Brusigliano. “One day, about five years ago, my...