We just finished a very beautiful youth camp together with 70 young people of Cebu City . It was a two-day gathering in the mountains filled with songs, games and workshops which allowed us to concretely experience true unity, openness and friendship.
During the youth camp, we highlighted the role of the young people in politics in the light of our upcoming national elections on the 10th of May. We shared to the youth Chiara’s talk on Brotherhood in Politics which made us understand that politics is the “love of all loves”. Through the workshops, the youth were able to create a profile of their ideal candidates. We realized that more than just electing the best candidate based on our moral conscience, we can really become proponents of change if we work together with them because as Chiara says, “in unity there is strength.”
Our commitment for “new politics” in our country does not end on election day, but must continue; thus, we have planned a series of activities to sustain this enthusiasm to build fragments of unity through social, environmental and cultural projects.
The next appointment we have with the youth will be a Night of Music and Prayer for a Clean and Orderly Election, which will be held on May 9, the eve of our first automated national election. On election day itself, the gen with some youth, will volunteer as poll watchers and we have been assigned to our city and provincial halls. We also ask for all your unity and prayers.
We tried to connect with you for the live link up on May 1 but unfortunately, our internet connection was too weak.
Ever ready to sow “seeds’ of love and unity,
The New Youth of Cebu
Hey,
RispondiEliminaWe in Mumbai kicked off the United World Week with a wall painting event. There were more than a 100 of us who painted a wall in a prime suburb with our solutions to the Challenge of Building a Better World.
Then at 16.00, a group of 66 of us began our journey for an overnight hike to our base village (Siddhaghad). We began our ascent at around 20.00 and reached our camp site well after midnight. We camped in the open and sang and strummed our way into the night. And we began our descent at around 9.00 the next morning. We all carried paper bags & collected garbage in it so as to keep our nature clean.
Most of the youth were those who met the y4uw for the 1st time.
And so the United World Week kicked off with a bang.
Our motto for the 3rd of May was 'Be a Sign of Hope'. For the 4th its "Be the change you want to see" and "Stand up for a cause" for the 5th. Many of us across the city will be trying to live it.
We also have many other activities lined up during this week. We have a Photography workshop, a dance workshop with 4 styles of dancing, a picnic with children of Udisha, which is a project of the Focolare movement for underprivileged children. Then we have an evening of tele-games and we conclude the united world week in India with a link-up during an event called U-nite, which is a night of live music, barbecue and much more.
We have also launched a website www.uww2010.in and a facebook group (united world week), which have become popular among the youth of the city.
Conrad & the Y4UW of Mumbai
P.S.: Here are some pictures of the wall painting:
http://picasaweb.google.com/109503416403105199458/WallPainting?authkey=Gv1sRgCMnZmK3VubvbtQE#