The Diocese of Milan has launched
an appeal to families in Milan asking them to host young farmers
that will arrive in the capital of Lombardy from around the
world in the first week of October, on the occasion of "Terra
Madre Giovani" (Mother Earth Youth), to take place from October
3-6.
"The willingness to welcome and to host are signs of our
strong desire to listen, to have mutual exchange, to learn how
to build the future of the planet that Expo Milan 2015 places
before our eyes as the focus of our responsibility and our
decisions," said Monsignor Luca Bressan, episcopal vicar for
culture and social action.
A sofa-bed for young farmers in exchange for local products
from distant lands: this is the message from the Diocese and
Slow Food to the city, one to which some well-known figures from
the entertainment world, such as Roberto Vecchioni and Adriano
Celentano, have already signed on.
The Diocese's message of welcoming joins with the one
already launched in recent months by the founder of Slow Food,
Carlo Petrini, who has repeatedly asked the Milanese to open
their homes to farmers under age 40 from all over the world.
At the same time that "Terra Madre Giovani" will take
place, Caritas at Expo will hold a conclusive conference on
October 4 "around a path that in recent months has seen many
families in the Milan area engaged in reflection and in an act
of conversion of their own life styles, towards forms that are
more in solidarity (with the environment) and environmentally
friendly," Bressan said.
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