{"id":341818,"date":"2013-04-11T06:13:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T04:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/a-year-at-sophia\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:08:57","slug":"a-year-at-sophia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/a-year-at-sophia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year At Sophia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-83234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130411-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"166\" \/>\u201c<strong>The months spent at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iu-sophia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophia<\/a> have helped me to bring together what I believe in and what I live<\/strong>: a more just world that with equality in diversity. Everything \u2013 the economy and political science classes and the opportunism to meet students and professors at Sophia from around the world \u2013 all of it has made me a different person inside. Then there was the work that made me more tolerant and aware of other\u2019s needs, sufferings and joys. Now it is a treasure that has become part of me.\u201d These words were shared by Valeria as she was being interviewed by the Brazilian journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/escrevologoexisto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valter Hugo Muniz<\/a> concerning her year-long experience at Sophia University Institute of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loppiano.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loppiano<\/a> (Italy).\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>  <img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83237 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130411-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"174\" \/>\u201c<strong>For me, working in the social field<\/strong> has always meant integrating my profession with my desire for a more fraternal world in which everyone\u2019s rights are fully respected,\u201d Valeria continues. \u201cBefore going to Sophia I had been working for three years as a social worker in the <em>Borro Quarter<\/em>, which is one of the poorest quarters of Montevideo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/focolare-worldwide\/america-sud\/uruguay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Uruguay)<\/a> where families, teenagers and children live under\u00a0 extremely vulnerable conditions. I tried never to lose sight of my main objective of affirming the dignity of the people, involving them and creating social spaces where isolation could be overcome, and facing problems together through dialogue and collective action.\u201d  <img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-83218 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130410-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"185\" \/><strong>Last December Valeria returned to Montevideo<\/strong> and has been involved in a project that focuses on children between the ages of 5 and 12, and their families. \u201cThe year spent at Sophia,\u201d she concludes, \u201cwas quite intense in many ways. It was a turning point for me that required me to change. . . and the learning hasn\u2019t ended. I\u2019m still assimilating the new categories that I learnt there. I now see my activity as an on-going \u201cwalking together\u201d in which it is necessary to see each other with eyes of genuine fraternity. What needs to improve are not only the material standards or the quality of life, but also the awareness of our common citizenship.\u201d  <em>In collaboration with: Valter Hugo Muniz<\/em>  Source<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iu-sophia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">: <em>Sophia University Institute<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguayan Social worker Valeria Cardosa shares about her year at the Sophia Univeristy Institute of Loppiano (Italy). Excerpts from an interview by Valter Muniz<\/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-341818","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\/341818","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=341818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}