PIME launches “family friendly” trade fair
Milan (AsiaNews)
- The Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions yesterday launched "Tuttaunaltrafesta
Family 2012" [A different celebration, Family 2012], dedicated to fair trade at its headquarters in Milan. The event will conclude
Sunday, May 20. It
includes 70 individual stands (associations, organizations and cooperatives)
which showcase fair trade products from around the world, from food to
clothing, from crafts to furniture.
This
year's event was opened by Paul De Nero, commissioner for the Province of
Milan, who spoke to the students present, who are involved in the ExpoGiovani project
led by the PIME office for Education in Global awareness together with the
Province of Milan.
"Tuttaunaltrafesta
2012" comes at the end of the PIME campaign "Fight hunger by changing your life," designed to accompany the
celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Centre for
Missionary Animation and Culture named after Msgr. Angelo
Ramazzotti, patriarch of Venice and founder of the PIME.
In
view of the VII World Meeting of Families with the Pope, to be held in Milan
from May 30 to June 3, the organizers thought the fair would be an opportunity
to prepare for the meeting with the Pope. Among the events dedicated to the
family: a Roundtable
on "Families facing the crisis" (featuring Don Walter Magnoni, head
of the Pastoral Social and Labour), Mass on Sunday morning (11), celebrated by
Don Luca Violoni, Secretary General of the Milan Family Foundation 2012; A preview
- on a smaller scale - of the exhibition "The world at home," of the
foreign families of Baranzate (Milan), the Italy's most multi-ethnic municipality.
The
exhibition was organized by Media PIME with support from Alcatelonetouch.
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