Focolare Movement

The Learning Fraternity Project

Aug 21, 2014

Focolare’s 2014-2015 education project for Italy focuses on the challenges of active citizenship, multi-culturalism and sustainable lifestyles.

LearningFraternityLearning Fraternity is the title of a 2014-2015 project of the United World Project (AMU) which has been accredited by the Italian Ministry of Instruction in collaboration with the Focolare’s New Humanity Movement. The main objective of its extended series of events is “to raise awareness and sense of responsibility with respect to the challenges that invest the modern world, and to become personally involved through training in active citizenship and respect for the environment. AMU and New Humanity offer training events on these topics, for teachers and educators at the world citizenship campus in Loppiano, Italy, along with thematic workshops for students. There is also a global network of projects. Some are in Italy, including the “Let’s Build A World of Brotherhood and Peace Project” which has been underway for several years in many schools in Sicily and Calabria. Its main objective is training in listening, encountering, dialoguing and living together with people of different cultures and ethnic backgrounds, such as Rom, Indian and North African who are found in many parts of Italy. There are twinning and partnership projects with foreign schools such as the School on the Andes Project, and the international Schoolmates Project (www.school-mates.org) in collaboration with Teens for Unity. Schoolmates is a worldwide network among classrooms for sharing experiences, cultures, languages, traditions and current projects. This project provides for the support of more than 600 scholarships for students in developing countries and other micro solidarity projects in several parts of the world thanks to the projects and fundraising of the teenagers themselves.

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