As the gen 2 in Kenya, we had friends and family who wanted to know more about the movement for a while now. We then decided amongst ourselves, with the help of Ivan and Bea our gen assistants, to start planning for a weekend whereby we would invite other youths to gain insight into the Focolare movement.
We took the opportunity to announce our meeting during the Centenary of Chiara event to reach out to more youths?
We also sent out physical invitations through different gens from different communities to the parishes and other places.
After much preparation, the dates arrived, and by the first night, there were already more than 30 new young people that had joined us in the youth centre
It was a beautiful experience and a great turn up, and we officially started our program on Saturday.
It was honestly a wonderful experience, and we look forward to continuing our interaction with those youths that came and even continue spreading the Ideal to more????. In total, the number of people present were 75 (The gen, the new youths, those in preschool, those in Mariapolis Piero for the gen experience and our assistants)
We managed to receive providence and contributions from different people, also amongst ourselves we contributed together with the youths who came and could manage in giving contributions of whatever kind, either money or food or just their presence.
Before leaving, we asked the young people to write their experiences of how the weekend was and these are some of the experiences:
The following are some of the moments that were captured to summarize the days we spent together????