SHARING WITH AFRICA - WE'RE HERE!!!

GREETINGS FROM MARIAPOLIS PIERO, NAIROBI - KENYA!!

A group of us have arrived yesterday evening in this wonderful place. Slowly slowly we are gathering together from around 30 different countries for an intercultural experience.

Africa (12): Kenya, Burundi, Ruanda, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar, Cameroun, Zambia, Angola, Congo, Costa d’Avorio

Europe (6): Italy, Austria, Ireland, Romania, Lituania, Malta

Americas (6): Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia

Middle East (2): Jordan, Holy Land

Asia (2): India, Philippines

This year's UNITED WORLD WEEK has brought us to focus on this incredible experience in the hearth of the AFRICAN CONTINENT. It is an intercultural experience is based on “The UBUNTU vision of the human person”: “I am what I am because we all are” and this is all an integral part of the UNITED WORLD PROJECT.

Ubuntu philosophy presents a unifying vision of the world which is expressed in the Zulu proverb: “Ununtu Ngumuntu Ngabantu” (A person is a person because of other people). This life concept is found at the basis of all African society, and it implies respect, sharing, trust, altruism and cooperation. It is a “communional” idea of the human person that identifies a person as someone in relation to his or her relations with others. A person with an Ubuntu ethic is open, available to others, supportive, aware of belonging to a greater whole. Speaking in Ubuntu terms involves a stronger sense of unity in social relations, in order to be available and willing to meet differences in the humanity of the other, as one’s own humanity is enriched: “I am what I am because we all are.”
Y4UW Centre