{"id":329360,"date":"2017-07-24T00:10:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T22:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/that-every-child-may-grow-and-never-be-discarded\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:07:55","slug":"that-every-child-may-grow-and-never-be-discarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/that-every-child-may-grow-and-never-be-discarded\/","title":{"rendered":"That every child may grow and never be discarded"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PapaGiving all children and teenagers the education they need, to restore their dignity and allow them to build their own futures. <\/strong>This is the commitment of the many activities carried out by Scholas Occurentes<\/a> (schools of dialogue) and the Focolare<\/a> non-profit New Families Association<\/a> (AFN) with programmes that focus on children and teenagers from around the world, with a teaching method based on values. The roots of Scholas, an international organisation that last June began operations in Italy with an official inauguration ceremony<\/a> at their new base in Palazzo San Calisto in Rome, go back twenty years. George Mario Bergoglio <\/strong>was archbishop of Buenos Aires, and he perceived the importance of the so-called escuelas de vecinos.<\/em> In 2013 Pope Francis <\/strong>transformed those schools of the quarter into a Pontifical Foundation so that they could promote their educational model on a global level. Currently the network has more than 400 million schools that are connected with each other from the five continents, from every religious and secular background and also public and private institutions in 900 countries. \u00a0<\/em> The pope attended the ceremony which was conducted by Lorena Bianchetti from Rai1. Our reporters were on hand <\/strong>as the Pope spoke off the cuff in Spanish with the young people from around the world who were linked up via internet. \u201cIn this society, \u2018teaching\u2019 often becomes \u2018selecting,\u2019\u201d he stressed. \u201cInstead, we need to \u2018join hands, embrace, never attack or say that any human being is a \u2018no\u2019. Everyone is a \u2018yes\u2019 and has significant role.\u201d Sometimes in education <\/strong>\u201cwe select badly, we create closed groups.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re incapable of thinking with the other, incapable of working with the other,\u201d the pope said<\/strong>. Instead, education is the capacity to speak \u201cthe language of the mind, heart and hands.\u201d Therefore, \u201cunity is needed within each one of us\u201d said Francis: \u201cIf I believe what I feel, what I think, what I love \u2013 then I\u2019m beginning.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re living in a world where globalisation dominates, and globalization is good,\u201d the pope explained<\/strong>, \u201cbut the danger is that of understanding, perceiving globalisation as a billiard ball \u2013 all of them are the same \u2013 a sphere in which everything is equidistant from the centre, but a sphere in which the personal characteristics of a boy or girl are obliterated.\u201d Instead, \u201cauthentic globalization is more like a polyhedron where we seek unity, but each of us maintains his and her own peculiarity their own richness.\u201d \"AfnThe president of Scholas, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Del Corral<\/strong>,<\/em><\/strong> explained how fundamental that step was for the international growth of the foundation.\u201d Moreover the closeness of the Holy Father is a stimulus to \u201cintensify efforts on the educational front where young people are involved.\u201d Also in Italy, he added, \u201cScholas appeals to all the sane forces of society to unite their efforts and to offer constructive collaboration.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong> This is the challenge for Scholas and for the Focolare AFNonlus <\/strong>who are project partners of some hundred activities in fifty countries around the world, as well as educational programmes for disadvantaged youth. \u201cIt\u2019s a demanding project,\u201d said president of the AFNonlus, Andrea Turatti. \u201cThe global classroom being created by the web will help to develop educational strategies, human and social development projects in a spirit of solidarity and in view of universal brotherhood.\u201d Giovanna Pieroni<\/em> Source:<\/strong> AFNonlus online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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