{"id":292462,"date":"2011-05-09T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/united-world-week-2011-weighing-up-visible-change\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:42:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:42:48","slug":"united-world-week-2011-weighing-up-visible-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/united-world-week-2011-weighing-up-visible-change\/","title":{"rendered":"United World Week 2011: weighing up visible change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>And yet it was much more than a simple series of events around the globe: the thousands of young people from the most varied of cultures and traditions who took part in the week\u2019s activities and projects were a visible demonstration of that united world that YPUW World (Young People for a United) live for. Even though taking an overview of each of the week\u2019s events would be like going on a fascinating trip around the world, it would be too long to fit into one article! For now we\u2019ll just take a quick glace at some of the activities. We\u2019ll start from the Middle-East<\/strong>, a zone that\u2019s experiencing a historical moment of change initiated by young people. The video that the YPUW from Egypt<\/strong> prepared (using the same title as the Meeting in Rome that kick started United World Week) was full of meaning: \u201cMake visible change\u201d. (link <\/em>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uYr664g4b6g&feature=player_embedded#at=63<\/a>) \"\"<\/a>The YPUW from Lebanon<\/strong> held an \u2018interreligious movie night\u2019, a sports day, an ecological project and a social development day. The social arena was also a focus point in Latin America. <\/strong>In Cuba,<\/strong> for example, the YPUW visited children who live in a shantytown in Havana that sprouted up under one of the city\u2019s bridges. \"\"<\/a>In Guatemala<\/strong>, a series of events coloured each day of World Unity Week in a different shade: Giving, Being the first to love, Dying for your People, Forgiveness, Ecology, Weaving Relationships were the various titles of the 6 days of events. Our last stop in Latin America brings us to Rosario<\/strong>, Argentina where two groups of 25 young people did a variety of mimes- on the footpaths at traffic lights- about building a united world! In various countries events were held for Japan <\/strong>in the light of the country\u2019s natural disaster last month. In Los Angels a \u201cHike a thon<\/em>\u201d was held to raise funds for the population of Fukushima. In Florence there was a dance marathon and the main square of Frascati (Rome) was livened up by an open workshop on Japanese culture. \"\"<\/a>In Goa, India<\/strong>, a day was dedicated to Chiara Luce Badano<\/strong>. The local YPUW presented the life of this young member of the Focolare- who was beatified on 25th<\/sup> September last- through songs, choreographies, traditional Indian dance, experiences and videos. In Chiara Luce\u2019s home town of Sassello,<\/strong> with 1200 young people present and others following via internet, United World Week had its official closure. A musical called \u2018Living the dream\u2019 <\/strong>was <\/strong>preformed <\/strong>by a group of young people from Genoa: fruit of an exciting workshop with Gen Rosso. The musical was inspired by the life of two boys from Genoa who are also on the road to beatification: Alberto Michelotti and Carlo Grisolia. Then there was a special tour of the Badano house with Chiara Luce\u2019s parents Ruggero and Maria Teresa. The replay of the event is available on: http:\/\/media.focolare.org\/ClSMU2011.wmv<\/a>. To top the day off there was an exciting announcement: Genfest 2012 will take place on 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup> of September in Budapest. Watch this space for further news on this! Detailed articles on World Unity Week can be found in Italian and Spanish on the blog: www.mondounito.net<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Oceania to Northern Europe, from Tierra del Fuego to the Far East: United World Week 2011, which had its official closure on 8th May, couldn\u2019t have been anything less than a worldwide experience.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292462","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=292462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}