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The third phase of Genfest 2024, held in Aparecida, Brazil, included workshops organized by so-called\u00a0United World Communities<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 meeting places where young people can share their talents and passions. These\u00a0communities\u00a0<\/em>offer the opportunity to discover talented people, concrete forms of commitment and initiate actions and projects aimed at building a more united world, which seek to respond to the local and global challenges of today\u2019s world; to activate processes of personal and collective change; and to grow fraternity and reciprocity in all dimensions of human life. An important feature of these\u00a0communitites\u00a0<\/em>is that they are the fruits of work between people of different generations.<\/p>\n Continuing the experiences of the previous phases of Genfest, in this third phase the youth were able to participate in workshops in different areas, whose methodology was based on fraternity and dialogue, as a proof for projects and actions that can now be developed in the \u201cglocal\u201d sphere (local projects with a global perspective). Activities were held in the areas of economics and work, cross-culture and dialogue, spirituality and human rights, health and ecology, art and social engagement, education and research, communication and media, and active citizenship and politics. The teams responsible for running the workshops were composed of young people and professionals who worked intensively for months to organize these activities.<\/p>\n From now on, Communities will have a working method that consists of three steps: Learning, Acting, and Sharing. The first (to Learn) is an in-depth exploration and analysis of the most current themes and issues in each\u00a0community<\/em>, with the goal of identifying problems and presenting solutions. The next phase (Take Action) is the implementation of actions with primarily local impact, but with a global perspective. Finally, in the third phase (Sharing), it is proposed that the community promote spaces for ongoing exchange and dialogue between initiatives, with the aim of strengthening the global collaboration network. An application-the\u00a0United World Communities<\/em>\u00a0WebApp, -has been created as a tool for sharing ideas, experiences and news, as well as promoting collaborative projects.<\/p>\n At the end of the third phase of Genfest, the Communities creatively presented their impressions and some of the results of the activities carried out in the previous days. Out of this work came the document \u2018The United World Community: One Family, One Common Home\u2019, which will be the contribution of the Genfest 2024 participants to the United Nations \u2018Summit of the Future\u2019 next September. According to the young people who presented the text, it is not a conclusive document, but is intended to be a \u2018programme of life and work\u2019 for the various United World Communities, as well as a testimony to be presented at the \u2018Summit of the Future\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cWith our\u00a0communities\u00a0<\/em>we don\u2019t want to make demands, formulate slogans or complain about political leaders,\u201d the young people said. \u201cInstead, we seek to name our common dreams, dreams of a united world. Personal and communal dreams, which will guide us in our activities in the coming years.\u201d They concluded, \u201cWe hope that by living them, \u2018together\u2019 and step by step, they will become signs of hope for others.\u201d<\/p>\n Margaret Karram and Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n, President and Co-President of the Focolare Movement, also spoke at the conclusion of Genfest 2024. Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n said that although the experience of care has been the most lived experience in human history, it is not the one that has been reflected on the most.<\/p>\n This has begun to change, as was demonstrated at the Genfest, in which care emerged as a response to the need for human dignity. In this sense, he concluded, it is important that young people remain connected to this global network of generative communities. Lu\u00eds Henrique Marques for www.focolare.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The third phase of Genfest 2024, held in Aparecida, Brazil, included workshops organized by so-called\u00a0United World Communities\u00a0\u2013 meeting places where young people can share their talents and passions. 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\nMargaret Karram, for her part, said she has seen throughout the Genfest experience that young people have given tangible witness to their faith and are already in action to build a united world. Regarding Phase 3 in particular, she emphasized the richness of this experience because of its creativity, intergenerational and intercultural imprint, and the fact that, through the\u00a0communities<\/em>, there is a concrete possibility of living the same Genfest experience in one\u2019s daily life. She concluded by calling on the young people to be the protagonists of these communities, the foundation of which is unity. \u201cPlease do not miss this unique opportunity that we are experiencing here: God has visited the heart of each of us and is now calling everyone to be protagonists and bearers of unity in the various areas in which they are involved\u201d.<\/p>\n