Mumbai: Getting ready for United World Week

Events include

Wall Painting Weekend: We will be dedicating a weekend to paint the yard wall of an orphanage. We will carry it out together with the “Teens for Unity” and the children of the orphanage. We received a gift with which we were able to get the wall waterproofed (monsoons in India can be quite heavy!) and whitewashed and we await the weekend where together with the children, we get our brushes and colours a piece of our city.

1^st May early morning: we will go outside Mumbai to a nursery to prepare saplings which we can then plant sometime in June when the rains begin. We are doing this in collaboration with a local NGO that works for ecology. Last year, we planted 200 saplings and this year we hope to do more.

1^st May afternoon – “Sharing with Africa”: we will spend the whole afternoon together in order to discover the African continent. Each one of us will come prepared with a song, a dance, a presentation of some interesting facts about one or more countries of Africa which we could all share together. One of the Youth for a United World had spent 6 months at Fontem in the Cameroons, so she will of course share her experience and then...we link up with the central event taking place in Mariapolis Piero, Nairobi, Kenya!!!!!

Home Visit: We cannot miss the chance of spending an evening with the elderly and handicapped at a home here in Mumbai... a chance for us to share joy and we are looking forward to it.

Many greetings from all of us as we go ahead together to build a united world!

Y4UW from Mumbai - India