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Community Drive
Community Food Drive 1280 720 Matteo Pota
Community Food Drive

Follow Clarisa and her family during their community food drive in Detroit.

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Rebuilding lives after prison

If you want peace, work for justice. The story of Project Lia, a project in Indianapolis that seeks to help women build a new life after their time in prison.

A community that dares to care 1280 720 Matteo Pota
A community that dares to care

A whole community in Toronto came together to sew masks and gowns with a lot of love and creativity.

Hope among the rubble 806 510 Matteo Pota
Hope among the rubble

Six months after Hurricane Maria, two young adults of the Focolare went to Puerto Rico to learn more about the experiences of resilience of its people after such a devastating event.

The healing power of spiritual friendship 640 360 Matteo Pota
The healing power of spiritual friendship

Can a Muslim and a Christian be truly friends? For more than 20 years a group of Christians and Muslims has been meeting every week in a Jewish deli in Indianapolis.

An experience at the border 900 508 carlosiazzetti
An experience at the border

Our youth from Southern California and Northern Mexico visited immigrants at the border between these two countries and made this video to share their thoughts on what they lived during those days.

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Victory over violence

Suppose that just for once the media stopped being part of the problem and became part of the solution. This is a story by Austin Kellerman, news director at the local NBC TV station in Little Rock, Arkansas, and his team. They worked to decrease violence in their city.

Bridging the political divide 580 426 Matteo Pota
Bridging the political divide

Now more than ever politics has become a hot button issue even among family and friends. The Focolare communities in the USA grapple with this difficulty and set out to discover if dialogue is really possible.

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An encounter beyond all borders

Some youth from California and Baja California decided to meet and learn from each other’s cultures. This became a great opportunity to go beyond their own borders and realize that there is more in common that what they thought.

Let’s color our city 960 540 Matteo Pota
Let’s color our city

The town of Gary, Indiana is one of the poorest in the USA. A hundred teenagers from six states went there to help organize activities with the homeless, to serve at a soup kitchen/canteen and work on urban renewal.

A happy bipartisan marriage 960 540 Matteo Pota
A happy bipartisan marriage

She’s a Democrat, he’s a Republican. Sixty years of marriage have taught them a lot about acceptance and respect.

A new small business revolution 960 540 Matteo Pota
A new small business revolution

An entrepreneur comes up with the idea of “The Company Cube”—a fun and practical way of remembering the values that create a positive work environment.