{"id":292110,"date":"2011-02-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/a-very-successful-school-project\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:41:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:41:37","slug":"a-very-successful-school-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/a-very-successful-school-project\/","title":{"rendered":"A very successful school project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong> Teresa, a \u201cGen 4\u201d from Porto Alegre <\/strong>(Focolare\u2019s \u201cGen 4\u201d are children aged from 4 to 8) was invited to show her work at a school science exhibition. She was asked to choose from subjects like pollution, alcoholism, ecology, but she was not happy with any of them. So together with her classmate Valentina (also a Gen 4) they asked the teacher if they could choose a subject that portrayed positive values: the art of loving as a response to those problems. The art of loving is a life choice based on the gospel and launched by Chiara Lubich. Its principles are: \u201clove everyone\u201d, \u201clove others as yourself\u201d, \u201cbe the first to love\u201d. \u201cThat is the only word that can make humanity into a family\u201d, said Chiara Lubich. The teacher accepted their idea <\/strong>and they prepared for the big day. More than 300 children presented their work, but Teresa and Valentina\u2019s stand attracted the most visitors! To those who asked her what the art of loving had to do with science, Teresa replied forcefully that if people were to live it, there would be no more alcoholism, pollution and so on. Using a Powerpoint presentation, she showed through some experiences of life what the art of loving could do if it is lived. A reporter who was there was very impressed and wrote an article for the local paper which highlighted Teresa\u2019s \u201calternative\u201d proposal. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in God, but in front of these children I cannot not believe in love\u201d, <\/strong>commented one of the fathers, and one of the mothers, with tears in her eyes, said, \u201cI am beginning to hope again for a better world!\u201d When the exhibition was over<\/strong>, the teacher asked Teresa to present their work at a book fair one month later. And so for a whole day Teresa and Valentina, in a room prepared just for them, presented their Powerpoint to all the children in the school aged from 4 to 8, and threw the cube \u2013 the \u201ccube of love\u201d \u2013 on whose sides the art of loving is described. They explained the cube using the book \u201cDiscovering the cube of love\u201d, a collection of experiences of Gen 4 from all over the world. print\u00a0\"print\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The experience of two children from Porto Alegre, Brazil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}