00:02They arrived in Bologna just in time for the summer, after weeks of delay caused by military checkpoints and a
00:10Once they arrived, they were sold out.
00:12These are sandals produced in Hebron and the occupied West Bank by eight Palestinian artisans and sold in Italy thanks to the
00:19Peace Steps project.
00:21Chiara Castellana, Cooperative Ex Equo.
00:23The workshop has grown over the years, combining artisan tradition with quality materials and contemporary design.
00:31From 2023, however, restrictions on movement, the increase in violence in the West Bank and the collapse of the local market and
00:38tourism has made orders from Italy practically the only way to continue working.
00:44The sandals are on sale in the Ex Equo shop in Via Altabella thanks to the collaboration with the NGO Ventoditerra and
00:51with the importers of the Nasca Mondo Alegre cooperative.
00:55For the Palestinian laboratory they now represent an essential source of income.
01:07What's my dream? I'd like to earn a good living and spend most of it on social projects.
01:17This is a little girl who escaped from the war, she came with her little brother, she is telling how she managed to get there
01:29so far.
01:30The escape is now reconstructed by the voice of Sister Natalina Isella, the missionary Brian Sola who founded Casa
01:37and Cabana, in his language ili, the children's house.
01:40We are in the hills of Bukavu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
01:45Although fighting continues in the area between armed groups and the army, the little girl's story has a happy ending.
01:52end.
01:53She had fled with her little brother on her shoulders when shooting began near her home and was welcomed home
02:00and cabana.
02:01Here she was treated, she learned that her parents were alive and she started studying again, learning to cook and
02:07to do small jobs.
02:08With her now there are 35 girls. Supporting them, along with Sister Isella, is also the NGO Movimento Lotta alla
02:17World Hunger, part of the Foxiv federation.
02:22For three days in Rome, dozens of volunteers alternated training and service to the most vulnerable people.
02:28This is the formula of the Open Act camp, an opportunity to dialogue on migration, work, and the dignity of peoples.
02:35The reflections were followed by concrete actions, from the preparation of the steps to their distribution to people living on the margins,
02:44in the areas of the Tuscolana and San Pietro railway stations.
02:49Volunteers of all ages participated in the three-day event, together with the associations Comi, Avaz, Roma Moor and Sal.
02:57Lucia Grasso Volunteer.
02:59What brings me home the most is meeting so many people that in everyday life
03:07they make their energy and time available because they believe in the projects they are part of.
03:13Gianluca Giovanelli, also a volunteer, continues.
03:16We've gotten to know many volunteer organizations in Rome. I think an experience like this is very helpful in understanding how difficult it is.
03:26there is around our city.
03:29The camp was promoted by the Scalabrinian Foundation thanks to the 8x1000 funds to the Catholic Church, a signature that does not
03:36It replaces the 5x1000 and is both hope and action.
03:42From Colombia, Lake Bracciano.
03:45Juvelis Morales Blanco, winner of this year's Goldman Prize, the award considered the Nobel Prize for the environment, will be among the
03:54protagonists of inseparable relationships, three days of school on integral ecology.
03:59The meeting is scheduled in Trevignano Romano, with base in a campsite on the shores of Lake Bracciano, from
04:06From September 13th to 15th, it was organized by GEA, School of Ecological and Environmental Justice, with experts and representatives of civil society.
04:14Morales Blanco has distinguished herself as a community organizer in the fight against facking and pollution caused by the oil company
04:24Ecopetrol in the Magdalena River basin, a region rich in biodiversity.
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