By
Mariagrazia and Francesco.
Hello
to everyone!
We
would like to present to you an on-going project: the United World Project. It
all started in Budapest
Today
we would like to talk more extensively about brotherhood, the guiding principle
of the United World Project. It begins from the understanding that fraternity
is the “driving force” of human history: it is our imperative duty to bring it
to light. For this reason we started to let lived brotherhood emerge around us,
observing its historical force. From this came forth the first of the three
initiatives generated by the Genfest: organize ourselves as a permanent
observatory of universal brotherhood.
Another
is the United World Week (UWW), an international and itinerant expo of our
campaign for fraternity. It is a unique and important moment. We hope to be
recognized soon by the United Nations.
Pay
attention, though: we are more than what we think! A global network of people
is being created; they are adhering to our project through a signature with
which they commit themselves to live fraternity putting it at the centre of
their way of life. So far we have reached about 40 thousand signatures and it
continues to increase every day!
It
is a complex, worldwide, challenging project in which we find recorded and
analysed “fragments of fraternity”, the UWW as an international workshop and
signatures as a Global Network. Underlying all this is the “Golden Rule”: “Do
unto others as you would have them do to you”, the heart of many civilizations
and traditions.
Some
famous personalities and witnesses of the world, some mayors, many
representatives of the social, political and religious world are helping us in
this undertaking. On this occasion, we want to remind you that there are many
people who are already connected to the website www.unitedworldproject.org and
have signed their personal commitment “to live the Golden Rule”. And you, have
you signed already? So far many ideas have been invented in order to promote
this initiative. Who knows how many more we will invent. For example, in the
coming days, 6000 young people are going to meet in Ecuador
Yes,
the road is long. In the meantime, during these months, important steps have
been taken regarding the relationship with institutions. Recently, some young
people were received by UNESCO in France ,
Portugal and Uruguay , at the Federal Senate in Brazil , in Zambia
during a Diocesan Day, in Italy
To
coordinate everything we organized ourselves by giving rise to a Permanent
Observatory of Brotherhood (the United World Watch). Our first goal is to build
the Atlas of Fraternity: just imagine the world map illuminated by all the
fragments of fraternity that are changing our history!
But
how can we detect these fraternal actions? The United World Watch has involved
collaboration with young people from more than 30 countries, and through a
survey form, we have so far received more than 700 sheets indicating fraternal
actions. We are still analysing the results, but we can disclose that the
result is an exciting outline clearly showing that brotherhood is underway with
original formulas, sometimes imaginative, but transforming human history.
We
cannot go into details now: in our upcoming events we will present the results
achieved. Meanwhile, we can tell you that we will bring all this material to
the member states of UNESCO and we will strive to promote this initiative
beginning with our friends up to reaching the international institutions,
thanks also to our New Humanity NGO.
As you can see, and as we realize every day, we
have major goals ahead of us. Woe if we slow down now! Do we want to be the
protagonists of our history or not? Yes, because, as Chiara taught us,
universal brotherhood is God’s design on the human family. We too, with the
United World Project, want to help to fulfil it.
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