nature Tag

Huerta Casa del Niño
ARGENTINA, Juan Diego Stellatelli • The vegetable garden at Casa del Niño is beginning to bear fruit. The first squashes have already been prepared in our kitchen. — What are the benefits of a vegetable garden for the children? It promotes teamwork, cooperation and camaraderie, patience, perseverance and a sense of responsibility. It promotes an awareness of life. Children realize that a plant needs care, attention, waiting, development, and a process to finally produce a final result (flower, vegetable, fruit). It stimulates the senses as they learn through touch, smell,Read More
Ulli Grauert
WORLD CLIMATE SUMMIT, Ulrich Grauert / Maria Fischer • Tuesday 9, 2021, Swiss Interholco AG has organized a side-event in Glasgow at the World Climate Summit with the intention to demonstrate the synergy between the Congolese state and private sector (FSC-certified timber industry) aimed at effectively maintaining a forest area whose inhabitants and biodiversity are sensitive to climate change. Interholco CEO Ulrich Grauert, Schoenstatt member and Founder of IKAF (International Kentenich Academy for entrepreneurs and leaders), shares his presentation with the users of schoenstatt.org. — In the context of WorldRead More
BELMONTE/PHILIPPINES from Fr Klaus Alender and Maria Fischer • As the Rector, Fr Daniel Lozano, reported in his last letter, the building of the DOMUS PATER KENTENICH in Belmonte, Rome, continues “slowly, but the work has started again; we are already close to completion, even though some things are still missing.” Among the things that are still missing are what each country can contribute for “their” room from their Schoenstatt and national culture. The house has 31 guest rooms. These rooms are named after the countries where there was aRead More
POPE FRANCIS IN AFRICA, by Sarah-Leah Pimentel • Pope Francis landed in Nairobi, Kenya, on 25 November on the first leg of his trip to Africa, a pastoral visit that will also include Uganda and the Central African Republic. Shortly after arriving in Nairobi, Pope Francis met with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and other political leaders. Kenyatta: “I ask for your prayers” The Kenyan president, who is himself a Catholic, began by asking the pontiff to pray for him in his aim to fight corruption within his own government. KenyanRead More