ONE CITY IS NOT ENOUGH

Hello to everyone!

On Friday 28 March, the Youth for a United World (Y4UW) Animator's meeting will set rolling at the Mariapolis Centre in Castel Gandolfo. It’s a great chance to go through and enrich ourselves from the on-going activities carried out by the Y4UW, both on a local as well as a global level. The meeting is entitled: “ONE CITY IS NOT ENOUGH”.

Y4UW Animators from about 20 different countries are coming together to equip themselves with the necessary tools to engage other young people and work on various types of projects aiming at:

-  Lifting up the needy, the lonely, the desperate;

-  Caring for the environment, at building bridges between cultures, generations, religions;

- Playing an active role in politics, economics,...

in other words, make the world a better home, where harmony, peace and unity reign.

Interactive workshops based on sharing will help us learn from one another and improve from each other's experience.

We will review our journey towards universal fraternity - unifying all our efforts in the United World Project. This year's special focus will be the “building of bridges” with the African Continent through an exchange of values and underling the meaning of Ubuntu – “I am because we are”. We will link up with Nairobi so as to get updated on the activities going on in preparing for “Sharing with Africa”. This important moment will also coincide with the opening of United World Week 2014.

Gen Rosso will update us on the recent performances in Brazil, northern Europe and the Philippines.

The object of this get together is really challenging and ambitious, however, we want to commit ourselves to “be the change” we wish to see in our area, our university, our city... but then “one city is really not enough” - we aim at the whole world.