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Weekend of service, training and sharing at the visible and invisible borders in Europe

After the strong experience of the summer camps in the 2021 summer period, we are launching a new proposal to the youth: to return to the borders also during the year, for a few days experience, but of great intensity in service, formation and sharing. In these places that are significant for the Italian migratory reality, we want to contribute to rediscovering the Good even in the midst of pain and violated human rights, touching Life with our own hands, to nurture what drives us to put ourselves at service with the other.

The goal is to build a community of people who welcome each other, caring for each other and the Planet, inhabiting spaces of co-responsibility capable of generating new processes of transformation and promoting encounter in order to build a society in which differences coexist by integrating and enriching each other.

Through the individual proposals we will touch upon the realities of Europe’s visible and invisible borders-Ventimiglia, Trieste, Oulx, Genoa, Sarajevo, Latina and Foggia. Through service and sharing, we will support people on the move, meet witnesses, and experience moments of reflection and exchange.

Designing and implementing these proposals isASCS – Scalabrinian Agency for Development Cooperation, together with various local partners.

The proposals are aimed at young people aged 18 to 29. A Green Pass is required to participate.

Participation fees help us to support participants’ room and board expenses, but should not be a barrier to participation for anyone!

  • WHERE. Oulx, a small mountain town in the upper Susa Valley behind Turin, has found itself to be a key transit hub for hundreds of men, women and children from Africa and the Near East heading for France: they all stop here before attempting to cross the border without being intercepted by border police.
  • WHAT? We will experience three intense days of knowledge, service and sharing about the migration reality of Oulx. We will meet and be supportive of those who work alongside people in transit every day: Fraternità Massi Refuge, Pastorale Migranti of the Diocese of Susa, Diaconia Valdese, Rainbow for Africa.
  • WHO? Young people from 18 to 29 years old
  • PARTICIPATION FEE: 35 €

  • WHEN? From 18/02 evening to 20/02 late afternoon
  • WHERE. A border runs invisibly between the sea and the mountains: on this side Ventimiglia, on the other side Menton. Italy and France. Every day there are those who try to cross this border, to reach friends and relatives elsewhere, but they do not have the right papers in their pockets and the French border guard is always ready to turn them back. So every night in Ventimiglia more than a hundred are sleeping camped under the viaducts of the highway.
  • WHAT? We will touch the border in all its forms: faces, stories, old rusty barriers, broken shoes and signs of hope. We will meet those in Ventimiglia who continue to engage alongside people on the move in the face of institutional silence, and we will do our best to be supportive: we will meet Caritas Intemelia, Diaconia Valdese, Bar Hobbit, Red Cross.
  • PARTICIPATION FEE: 35€

  • WHEN? 4/03 evening to 6/03
  • WHERE. Trieste, gateway to Europe, terminus of the Balkan Route: every day through this city dozens of people enter Italy after walking for weeks through the woods of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, after months of travel that brought them here from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and many other Near Eastern countries.
  • WHAT? We will experience an intense weekend on the border: knowledge, service and sharing in contact with the migratory reality of the arrival of the Balkan Route. In Trieste we will meet faces and feet, listen to testimonies and be supportive of those who engage there every day: Shadowline, Italian Solidarity Consortium, Strada SiCura and Caritas.
  • PARTICIPATION FEE: 35€

  • WHEN? 8/03 afternoon to 11/03 morning
  • WHERE. A border runs invisibly between the sea and the mountains: on this side Ventimiglia, on the other side Menton. Italy and France. Every day there are those who try to cross this border, to reach friends and relatives elsewhere, but they do not have the right papers in their pockets and the French border guard is always ready to turn them back. So every night in Ventimiglia more than a hundred are sleeping camped under the viaducts of the highway.
  • WHAT? A slightly different proposal to experience the “feriality” of the border: we will be in Ventimiglia in the everyday life of an ordinary week, with our eyes open to the border, though. Every morning we will have a few hours of service with Caritas. We will meet those in Ventimiglia who continue to engage alongside people on the move in the face of institutional silence, and we will do our best to be supportive: we will meet Caritas Intemelia, Diaconia Valdese, Bar Hobbit, Red Cross. During the days we will have time for sharing and reflection together, but also a few hours to study or work remotely.
  • PARTICIPATION FEE: 40€

  • WHEN? From 11/03 evening to 13/03 late afternoon
  • WHERE? A border runs invisibly between the sea and the mountains: on this side Ventimiglia, on the other side Menton. Italy and France. Every day there are those who try to cross this border, to reach friends and relatives elsewhere, but they do not have the right papers in their pockets and the French border guard is always ready to turn them back. So every night in Ventimiglia more than a hundred are sleeping camped under the viaducts of the highway.
  • WHAT? We will touch the border in all its forms: faces, stories, old rusty barriers, broken shoes and signs of hope. We will meet those in Ventimiglia who continue to engage alongside people on the move in the face of institutional silence, and we will do our best to be supportive: we will meet Caritas Intemelia, Diaconia Valdese, Bar Hobbit, Red Cross.
  • PARTICIPATION FEE: 35€

  • WHEN? From 8/04 evening to 10/04 afternoon
  • WHERE. Latina, a fertile plain covered with greenhouses: this is where most of the vegetables that reach our tables are grown. “Origin: Italy.” The arms that grow radishes and salad greens, however, often come from afar: the workers are mostly Indians of the Sikh religion, a large but quiet community, ideal for widespread exploitation. It is one of the faces of 21st century slavery.
  • WHAT? We will experience an intense weekend on what is an unknown invisible border of our country. The heart of the proposal is knowledge, service and sharing in contact with the Sikh community in the Latina area. We will hear stories and testimonies, starting with those who are in the field every day to counter labor exploitation, such as Caritas Latina.
  • PARTICIPATION FEE: 35€

  • WHEN? 22/04 evening to 25/04
  • WHERE. Trieste, gateway to Europe, terminus of the Balkan Route: every day through this city dozens of people enter Italy after walking for weeks through the woods of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, after months of travel that brought them here from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and many other Near Eastern countries.
  • WHAT? We will experience an intense weekend on the border: knowledge, service and sharing in contact with the migratory reality of the arrival of the Balkan Route. In Trieste we will meet faces and feet, listen to testimonies and be supportive of those who engage there every day: Shadowline, Italian Solidarity Consortium, Strada SiCura and Caritas.
  • PARTICIPATION FEE: 35€

And it didn’t end there! More proposals coming soon! Stay in touch on social channels @piupontimenomuri!

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