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Today for the closing of the United World Week we had a competion of Music, Dance, Theatre where to winner received a price to donate to an orphanage.
Besides the performance the competition was followed by group discussions with some questions related to the United World and how to live this way of life.
The presentation of Chiara Luce had had a strong impact in all the youth, who expressed the desire to follow her example.

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Let's face the Challenge - as the title for this year suggests, was the aim that we set when we started preparing for the events of the United World Week.

It was weeks of preparation in order to put together a 2 hour programme consisting of songs, experiences and a special moment dedicated to Chiara Luce to introduce the young people to our goal of building a more united world.

We were around 40 youth present on the 1st of May, many of whom made their first contact with the Youth for a United World. Our experiences and the witness of Chiara Luce's life immediately struck a deep chord in the hearts of all.

To follow up immediately with concrete actions, we invited those present, to join us in supporting the 'Arms Down' Project with their signatures.

With this, we then launched further commitments, both personal and collective to be carried out during the week.

On Monday, 3rd May a group of 7 of us Youth for a United World made a visit to the Home for the Aged at Bogmalo, in the South of Goa, where we sang songs & spent time with the elderly people. Our enthusiasm & joy finally conquered a lady in the Home who was depressed and angry and wouldn't smile from the time we got there. Towards the end of our visit though, she was singing aloud along with us.

Another trip was paid to Shanti Avedhna, a home for terminally ill persons, on the 6th of May. We felt that it was a special experience being there to give courage to these people. In a few words we narrated the story of Chiara Luce throwing light on the fact that, inspite of her sufferings, she always loved. The patients were extremely happy on seeing us, as we shared in their lives, talking and cheering them up. It was an occasion to give hope!

Besides these visits, we are also going ahead with our personal commitment to live the motto that we have proposed for each day of this week: pray for peace, make a new friend, keep the environment clean, do an act of love for a stranger, smile, give something you treasure for a good cause and keep your room clean!

Our follow up appointment will be on the 9th of May in the focolare to share our experiences and participate in the world wide link up call.

The Youth for a United World of Goa

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Hey,

We in Mumbai kicked off the United World Week with a wall painting event. There were more than a 100 of us who painted a wall in a prime suburb with our solutions to the Challenge of Building a Better World.

Then at 16.00, a group of 66 of us began our journey for an overnight hike to our base village (Siddhaghad). We began our ascent at around 20.00 and reached our camp site well after midnight. We camped in the open and sang and strummed our way into the night. And we began our descent at around 9.00 the next morning. We all carried paper bags & collected garbage in it so as to keep our nature clean.

Most of the youth were those who met the y4uw for the 1st time.

And so the United World Week kicked off with a bang.

Our motto for the 3rd of May was 'Be a Sign of Hope'. For the 4th its "Be the change you want to see" and "Stand up for a cause" for the 5th. Many of us across the city will be trying to live it.

We also have many other activities lined up during this week. We have a Photography workshop, a dance workshop with 4 styles of dancing, a picnic with children of Udisha, which is a project of the Focolare movement for underprivileged children. Then we have an evening of tele-games and we conclude the united world week in India with a link-up during an event called U-nite, which is a night of live music, barbecue and much more.

We have also launched a website www.uww2010.in and a facebook group (united world week), which have become popular among the youth of the city.


Conrad & the Y4UW of Mumbai


P.S.: Here are some pictures of the wall painting:
http://picasaweb.google.com/109503416403105199458/WallPainting?authkey=Gv1sRgCMnZmK3VubvbtQE

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We just finished a very beautiful youth camp together with 70 young people of Cebu City . It was a two-day gathering in the mountains filled with songs, games and workshops which allowed us to concretely experience true unity, openness and friendship.
During the youth camp, we highlighted the role of the young people in politics in the light of our upcoming national elections on the 10th of May.  We shared to the youth Chiara’s talk on Brotherhood in Politics which made us understand that politics is the “love of all loves”.  Through the workshops, the youth were able to create a profile of their ideal candidates. We realized that more than just electing the best candidate based on our moral conscience, we can really become proponents of change if we work together with them because as Chiara says, “in unity there is strength.”
Our commitment  for “new politics” in our country does not end on election day, but must continue; thus, we have planned a series of activities to sustain this enthusiasm to build fragments of unity through social, environmental and cultural projects. 
            The next appointment we have with the youth will be a Night of Music and Prayer for a Clean and Orderly Election, which will be held on May 9, the eve of our first automated national election. On election day itself, the gen with some youth, will volunteer as poll watchers and we have been assigned to our city and provincial halls. We also ask for all your unity and prayers.
            We tried to connect with you for the live link up on May 1 but unfortunately, our internet connection was too weak.
Ever ready to sow “seeds’ of love and unity,
The New Youth of Cebu
 

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