17 – 24 June 2018
Show your support for migrants and share their journey through a
global series of shared meals and community activities. Get involved today!
Sharing a meal is much more than just spending some time with other people to eat together. Food is one of the fundamental basic human needs and is of critical importance to all of us. It’s also a powerful vehicle to bring people together in a moment of joy, relax and of true communion.
Bring your community together with migrants and refugees for a meal and share your stories about your lives, your hopes and your dreams. Find out that despite our differences, we are here on this earth as one human family.
Our global week of action provides the springboard to deeper relationships as a
community and with migrants and refugees.
How to get started
Recognise the migrants in your community. Some may have been there for years and run businesses, be parents at your school, and others may have just arrived.
Practical tips:
Your community spaces and church buildings should be welcoming, with clear signs, preferably in migrants’ languages. Provide as much welcoming encouragement as possible by inviting migrants and members of minority ethnic groups to attend special services. Think about if you could host a drop-in centre or toddler group.
Benefits:
If your community has no group working with newcomers, this could be a very successful action for you. Offering adult literacy, language sessions, or teaching computer skills will demonstrate your welcome.
Assets to help you put on and promote your event.
Use these posters to spread the word about the Global Week of Action.
All the assets you’ll need to post content about the Global Week of Action on social media.
Migrants and refugees may have gone through periods of hunger and difficulty or they may have faced solitude and rejection rather than welcome. Through your Caritas organisation you can either attend a meal or identify new and long-standing migrants in your community whom you can invite to a meal you organise.
Learn why people migrate
Mythbust
Meet a migrant
Help migrants raise
their voices
Caritas Syria will invite people displaced by the country’s war to eat with community members, Caritas staff and bishops in an Orthadox church hall. The meal brings together mixture of Syrian society including Muslims, Christians, Alawite and Druze in Damascus.
Shared meal event with 14 refugees in partnership with students from the Centre of Ministry of labour and migration.
Caritas Tajikistan also worked with national Radio Co Vatan (www.vatan.tj) on 12 programmes concerning migrants and refugees throughout June 2018.
One programme is broadcast weekly where migrants, refugees and other people can call in and ask questions live, tell their stories and share useful information for other migrants and refugees.
The radio programme was available online (www.vatan.tj) so that migrants out of the country too could benefit from that. Other programmes were broadcast twice a week, prerecorded and shared information about migrants and refugees.
Mass and Cultural celebration with the theme: “Welcoming, Protecting, Promoting and Integrating Migrants and Refugees and Share the journey”.
Shared event with migrants.
Shared meal with about 10-20 migrants about 60 pastoral center staff (some migrants will be staff members) at the Diocesan Pastoral Center
Interfaith prayer/walk for migrant families
Training for workers of the Vicariate on socio-pastoral interventions with migrant brothers and sisters. Wednesday 20, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. with the collaboration of the Department of Human Mobility of the Archdiocese.
Visit and sharing of the Management Committee of the Vicariate (Executive Secretary and Area Heads) in Hospedaría de hombres de Incami. Thursday 21 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. –
Sharing with migrant women from the Santa Ana Shelter. Wednesday 16:00 hrs.
Sharing with migrant women from the Rebeca Ergas shelter. Friday 10:00 hrs.
Today (June 20)- Yoga and mindfulness 4PM Women’s Shelter Nicosia
21/6/2018 – Sports Day for All! 3:30PM Migrant Centre Nicosia
22/6/2018 – French Cultural Food Exchange (Crepe making) 10AM with Women’s Empowerment Group
https://www.facebook.com/events/1933998833301471/
Eritrean families hosted by the Diocesan Caritas, as part of the project “Protected, Refugee in my house – Humanitarian Corridors”, will prepare a social dinner (June 20) .
Event offering the public testimonies, reflections and artistic performances in Catania to remind people about the anniversary of the 1951 UN Convention on the Status of Refugees. This event offers a moment of awareness and an opportunity to get to know the culture, history and integration processes of many refugees and foreign communities that are now part of the life of the city. Ruggero Sardo will be leading the evening (June 22).
Shared meal event
All across the UK people will be organising “Share the Journey” walks with their parishes and schools.
https://cafod.org.uk/Campaign/Share-the-Journey
Meal with migrants that are in prison
Meal with migrants and refugees from the parishes of Dakar, members of the parish and individuals from Caritas Senegal.
Day/Date | Activity |
17 June (Sunday) 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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[Opening Activity- Global Week of Action 2018 (GWA18)] Eucharistic Celebration – His Eminence Luis Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle, DD – Minor Basilica of San Lorenzo Ruiz, Binondo, Manila |
18 June (Monday) | GWA18 Health Care Activity – Access to Caritas Vicariate Clinics by Non-members (Migrants) |
19 June (Tuesday) |
Clergy recollection Program to include GWA18 sharing, 9am at San Carlos Seminary |
20 June (Wednesday) | GWA18 / Sharing of local and foreign migrant students on their encounter with the school community |
21 June (Thursday) St. Aloysius Gonzaga,Religious |
61st Birthday of His Eminence ‘share-a-meal’ and encounter with migrants at the Residencia
GWA18 / Sharing of local and foreign street dwellers on their encounter with the parish community of Ermita Church |
22 June (Friday) | GWA18 / Sharing of local and foreign youth migrants on their encounter with the youth community |
23 June (Saturday) | GWA18 Health Care Acticity – Access to Caritas Vicariate Clinics |
24 June (Sunday) Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist |
Homilies to include the message of GWA18 |
Friday, June 15, at 21, in the parish of Carrara San Giorgio (province of Padua), a moment of animation and sharing with African food and music.
Event 1: Inter-class Volleyball tournament on 19 June
Date: 19 June 2018
Location: Jhapa, East Nepal
Number of participants: approximately 250
Event 2: Football match / Sports materials support
Date: 20th June 2018
Location: Jhapa, East Nepal
Event 3: Expo on education, art, and craft prepared by refugee students
Date: 20 June 2018
Location: Jhapa, East Nepal
Event 4: International World Refugee Day Celebration
Date: 20 June 2018
Location: Caritas Nepal, Head office
“We All Have Red Blood” Theater Presentation
Autobiographical dramatization created by 14 asylum seekers
Caritas Somalia will join the Caritas family on the Global Week of Action by organizing a meal for 100 people, where the local community, IDPs, and refugees will be able to integrate, celebrate and share a happy gathering for one day.
Shared meal with migrants.
Recreational activity with migrants.
Presentation, activity, and a shared meal.
Shared meal with migrants. It’s promoted by Milan City Council and will kick off with a greeting by the Archbishop of Milan.
“Come Down From The Tree”, photo contest
Shared Meals in the following locations:
Machiques, Estado Zulia (June 23)
Caracas, Dtto. Capital (June 20/22)
Guasdalito, Estado Apure
Shared meal event
Shared meal event
The Organizing Institutions:
Executive Secretary Pastoral Human Mobility
National Social National Pastoral Caritas
Migrants and Refugees Network in Paraguay
Network of Migrants Protagonists in Paraguay.
Seeds of democracy / Refugees
CONARE National Commission for Refugees
UNHCR in Paraguay
Volunteers from San Ignacio
Shared meal activity
Shared meal with migrants
Training will be conducted for migrants on topics such as: 1. Exemption from requirements 2. Cross-border workers 3. Application of fines 4. The social migration fund
The National Migration Meeting aims to identify the strengths and hopes of the ecclesial response with the migrant, refugee and asylum seeker population, as well as how to dialogue and agree on points of work around the challenges of migration in Colombia.
Shared meal and cultural activities with migrants.
Mass and shared meal with migrants
Shared meal with migrants
Shared meal with migrants in the parish
Mass with the Bishop and dinner.
Shared meal event
Date and location pending, please check back soon!
Shared meal with refugees and migrants.
Date and location to be announced. Please check back soon!
Shared event with refugees and migrants.
Shared event with refugees and migrants.
Shared event with migrants and refugees.
Shared event with refugees and migrants.
Shared event with refugees and migrants.
Shared event with refugees and migrants
Shared event with refugees and migrants
Shared event with refugees and migrants
Shared event with refugees and migrants.
Shared event with refugees and migrants
Shared event with refugees and migrants.
Shared event with refugees and migrants
Shared event with refugees and migrants
Shared event with refugees and migrants.
Shared event with refugees and migrants
Shared event with refugees and migrants
Shared event with refugees and migrants.
Shared event with refugees and migrants
Dinner event and discussion
“Working together to end child immigration detention”.
2018 CARITAS ASIA REGIONAL CONFERENCE & PARTNERS’ FORUM: Theme: “Share the Journey”
(Includes a shared meal with migrants)
The activity will consist of the organization of a half-day “open door” addressed to Tunisians and migrants, to inform and raise awareness about the subject of violence against women in general and migrant women in particular.
Includes: Screening of a film on violence against women in Tunisia plus two testimonies of two women victims of violence
– Coordinated discussion by experts on violence against women in Tunisia, with a focus on the difficulties faced by migrant women and the types of violence they suffer.
Texte en français
Dans le cadre de la campagne de Caritas Internationalis “Partager le Chemin”, Caritas Tunisie a organisé une rencontre de partage. Les invités ont répondu nombreux au rendez-vous.
Un véritable moment de fraternité et de connaissance entre les migrants, les employés et bénévoles de Caritas Tunisie et Caritas Agrigento, les tunisiens et quelques partenaires.
La rencontre a débuté par un petit moment de silence en hommage aux victimes de la mer à Kerkennah .
Après a eu lieu un débat suite au témoignage d’une femme camerounaise, coordonné par Caritas, son témoignage portait sur son expérience personnelle quant à la migration clandestine.
Ils ont eu aussi un focus sur les difficultés rencontrées par les migrant(e)s en Italie et les types des violences (morale et physique) dont ils sont victimes au quotidien.
Bringing Mongolians and foreigners together to share about cultural encounter: positive aspects and challenges
A visit by Caritas Burundi and partners in the Congolese refugee camp and launch of a food assistance project.
Date and location pending. Please check back soon!
A full day – event “social” with refugees.
Date and location pending. Please check back soon!
Workshop for volunteers on refugees including testimonies of refugees.
Date and location pending. Please check back soon!
Organized in solidarity a shared meal with Nouakchott Parish for 500 refugees and migrants. During the day games were organized for the children, and raffles for adults. The day ended with a cultural evening during which the communities presented the culture of their country of origin.
– June 17: Walks, concert and meal at the Logis de Louvranges, our center for asylum seekers
– June 20 : concert, meal and animations in Brussels and Antwerp
– June 22: Concert, meal and animations in Scherpenheuvel, our second center for asylum seekers
Shared meal with refugees and migrants.
Date and location pending. Please check back soon!
Shared meal with refugees and migrants.
Date and location pending. Please check back soon!
Shared meal with refugees and migrants.
“Come and Share your Bread”
Shared meal with refugees and migrants.
Shared meal with refugees and migrants.
Date and location are pending. Please check back soon!
Caritas Tonga will be participating in the Global week of action in partnership with our Student Migration Ambassadors from Lapaha Village.
Mass will be held and will be followed with sharing of a meal with the Students and sharing of student migration journeys.
Community walk with refugees and migrants
Date and location pending. Please check back soon!
Shared meal with migrants and refugees
Shared meal with refugees and migrants.
Time and location are pending. Please check back soon!
A special Mass for migrants and refugees with prayerful intentions for the occasion (June 17th).
Shared meal with refugees and migrants (June 19th at 19:00)
Shared meal with refugees and migrants.
A picnic at Veikou Park where refugees and locals will participate in conversation. Refugees will share their experiences through their long journey to Greece, their dreams for a better life and their day-to-day life in the country.
Osaka District Action Day/ District Seminar
Photography exhibitionon on Rohingya refugees branded with SCIAF, J&P and STJ logos and summaries.
Shared meal with refugees and migrants
Shared meal with refugees and migrants
Press briefing on June 19th at 10am at the Reception Point for Refugees and Immigrants (IRAP), at Caritas Dakar Headquarters
Friday, June 22, at 10:00, a Panel on Migration, at the Pouponnière of the Franciscan Sisters of the Medina (Near the Verbo-tonal Center), with the participation of organizations and institutions engaged in the management of the migration issue;
Saturday, June 23 (lunch), a “shared meal” with migrants in prison at the Prison Camp Criminal of Dakar
Sunday, June 24, at 9:30 am: a Mass in the Saint Joseph Church of Medina, followed by moments of sharing, “Shared Meals” and cultural animation.
Congressional Briefing
World Refugee Day Symposium
Shared meal with refugees and migrants
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Communities around the world have been bursting with ideas of how to Share the Journey with migrants and refugees. Here are just some of the ways that communities are inspiring us to sit up, listen and take up the journey with our brothers and sisters on the move.
Our awareness campaign is a chance to strengthen the bonds of our global human family. We want to create more spaces and opportunities for migrants and communities to come together. By doing this, and promoting the “culture of encounter” so often talked about by Pope Francis, we aim to combat prejudice and build more inclusive societies. Pope Francis supports the campaign and he launched on 27th September 2017.
The Global Week of Action is one of the high points of our two-year Share the Journey campaign. Caritas organisations and local communities will promote a variety of activities to encourage learning and action around the migration experience and to understand how we are all part of each other’s journey. Read our action guide.
The action week runs from 17th to 24th June. It’s the week around World Refugee Day which is on 20th June.
Caritas organisations across the world will be promoting action that week. Our organisations work in communities in over 160 countries.
Migrants and refugees will be at the heart of our week of action. We invite communities that they leave, where they pass through and where they go to make new lives to organise a shared meal or undertake an activity together.
Contact your diocesan or national Caritas for more information. Here are lists of national Caritas organisations in Middle East and North Africa, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, North America and Europe.
You can download our action guide here. More resources will be available on this page soon.
There are lots of other activities you can do together such as organising a prayer service or, quite simply, by learning more about why people migrate and about the myths surrounding migration. Even if there is not migration in your area, you can learn more and participate online through our website and through the #sharejourney hashtag.
“We at Caritas would like to invite you to join us on a journey of faith, hope and love with migrants.
Hope is the force that drives the hearts of those who depart… and it is also the impulse in the heart of those who welcome: the desire to encounter, to get to know each other, to dialogue…. Hope is the force that drives us “to share the journey.”
– Pope Francis
Not long after his death, Jesus appeared to two disciples on the road to Emmaus. They were full of fear following Jesus’s death. They didn’t recognise Jesus until they sat down for a meal together and he broke bread.
How many times in a day do we not recognise Jesus in the people who cross our paths? We may be busy or distracted, or we may be closed in the tomb of our own fears and misconceptions.
Share the Journey is an invitation to roll away the stones that are blocking our hearts and imagination and to share the journey with each other – in particular with the most vulnerable people, such as migrants.
– Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Caritas president, invites you to Share the Journey
apicella@caritas.va
+39 066 987 9718
Michelle Hough, hough@caritas.va, 0039 334 234 4136
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Text: Jane Standley
Translation: Clotilde Not, Mariangeles Carvajal
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