ConFine24
Weekend of service, training and sharing at the borders of Europe
After the powerful experience of ConFine23, we want to return to these significant places for the migratory reality of Italy to help rediscover 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. In addition, this year we want to add the experience on an additional Italian border that we hear little about but is much affected by the crossings of people heading to northern Europe.
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-Oulx, Trieste, Como-Chiasso and Ventimiglia. Through service and sharing, we will support people on the move, meet testimonies, and experience moments of reflection and exchange.
To participate in the camps, we ask you to contribute a donation of €50 (this does not have to be an obstacle to participation; write to us if you would like to participate but do not think you can afford the full fee): it includes food, lodging, insurance and internal travel on camp days.
Instead, each volunteer will have to make his or her own arrangements for travel to the camp site and for departure. We ask each volunteer(s) to arrive the night before the start date or the next morning by 10 a.m. and leave no earlier than lunch (approximately 3 p.m.)
In addition, an online meeting is planned before departure and one upon return from the experience. More email info on where and how to donate and logistical issues will follow shortly. We ask that you add to your address book the email of [email protected].
The proposals are aimed at young people aged 18 to 29. Are you over 29 years old? Don’t worry, we have an ad hoc proposal in the pipeline for you! Write to us at [email protected]
Designing and implementing Through is theASCS – Agenzia Scalabriniana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, along with various local, national and European partners including Migrantes Foundation, Caritas Intemelia, Red Cross, the Parish of Rebbio, Massi Fraternity Shelter, Pastorale Migranti of the Diocese of Susa, Diaconia Valdese, Rainbow for Africa, ICS Trieste and Linea D’Ombra odv.
ConFine24 is produced with the support of the Migrantes Foundation and the Carmine Church of Milan.
Are you a large group or a smaller group of friends and would like to do activities along the ConFines?
Unfortunately, places for our weekends are limited, but don’t despair: email us and we will help you make your own arrangements to build Bridges in these frontier territories!
+info: [email protected]
