Chers amis,
je vous transmets une importante initiative prise par OIEC, OMAEC, USG, UISG et je vous invite à en donner la plus large diffusion.
Sincéres salutations.

Giuseppe Mariano
Presidente UNAEC-Europe

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210.000 catholics Schools and 46 millions of Students
engaged with the World
to safeguard the common Home.

Rome, the 15th of March

Dear Friends,

We would like to invite you to participate in the Project “I CAN”.

This project has been created in cooperation with the Congregation for catholic education, and some organizations which are deeply involved in favor of catholic education in the world.

This project has been designed for the children and youth to help them to better reply to the challenges of the Encyclical ‘LAUDATO SI’.

The hope for a new humanity is in fact relying on them.

Pope Francis is expecting with a lot of hope the answers and actions of all the children and young people, catholic or not, to his message.

Since quite a long time, and in different ways we are invited to promote a good education, giving more importance to learning and putting the children and youth at the center of the whole educative process.

The project “I can” contributes to all this work. It must permit young people to see the world through their own eyes to enable them to better identify, know and combat what happens to them and in their realities.

This way, according to a critical, creative and collaborative method they will be brought to suggest necessary changes to improve their lives, the ones of their society and their ecosystem, by creating together projects of changes and especially putting them into practice.


WE ATTACH THE EDUCATIONAL GUIDE.
LET’S WORK TOGETHER WITH A SINGLE METHODOLOGY

We offer you this EDUCATIONAL GUIDE, entitled “I CAN!”

Children and young people face the challenge of ‘LAUDATO SI’: the care of the common house”.

In a brief and simple way, this guide describes and shows the steps to follow to create thousands of projects of change initiated by the children and young people, in schools, in the groups of catechism, in movements or in formal or informal meetings.

This invitation not only addresses to believers or the catholic schools of the world.
On the contrary, it is open to everyone, regardless of the religion, race, age, country or gender…We can, and we must work together, hand in hand, to comply with the challenges of LAUDATO SI’ and those of the Sustainable Development Goals, approved by the UN in 2015.

One of the project’s objectives is precisely to WORK TOGETHER, thanks to a tool that guarantees young people and children to be the protagonists so that they can in an autonomous and critical way feel and become conscious that they can change themselves their realities, think of a possible solution and actualize it, act with determination and commitment and share it with the others.

To this, the methodology Design For Change facilitates theprocess and allows a better division of projects.
Therefore, such a method has been chosen by the Congregation for Catholic Education.

The sharing allows to inspire reciprocally, generating a real worldwide network of small changes which will transform the world and the society making them more human and sustainable.

In a critical and autonomous way,
they must feel, take care and become conscious of the fact that they can change their own realities;
they mustimagine a possible solution and accomplish it;
they must act with decision and compromise and share it with others.

The methodology of Design for Change helps us in this process and allows us to share the projects, inspiring each other and generating a network of little changes that will transform the world and the society, making it more human, solidary and sustainable.

The children and youth will, thanks to their skills, their originality and creativity, free of any egoistic or material interests, mark the path heading towards a more human and fair world, which will be more respectful towards diversity, social integration and the environment.

They will do so with a much higher respect of the common house, with a real commitment to eliminate poverty and in the prospective of establishing a culture of encounter, of justice and peace.


LET’S ADD PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS TO THE PROJECT. WE COUNT ON YOU!

No one should feel excluded!

This project which we present you in the simplest way should remain open and collaborative, to make everyone feel involved.

-The Catholic International Education Office(OIEC);
-the Educational Commission of the Union of Superiors General (USG) and the International Union of Superiors General (UISG);
-the Scholas Occurrentes;
-the World Organization of Former Students of Catholic Education (OMAEC) and
-the International methodological Movement Design for Change
have, upon invitation of the Congregation for catholic education, expressed the wish to join their forces for a great success of this initiative.

Undoubtedly, many organizations and institutions will get themselves involved along the path.

You are most welcome because everyone among us has something to contribute to this project.

The challenges are that important that we need everyone to participate.


LET’S COMMUNICATE AND SPREAD THE PEDAGOGICAL GUIDE WITH THE AVAILABLE MEANS. LET’S ACHIEVE TOGETHER A GREAT PARTICIPATION IN THIS PROJECT.

We invite you to expand this initiative by sending this PEDAGOGICAL GUIDE to all the organizations and educative forums, teachers, animators and principals of the different educative institutions which are under your responsibility or which you have access to Encourage them to participate and to use all the available means of communication.

Display this guide on your websites and distribute it via email, with proper social networks or cooperatives.
It is very important to promote the participation and involvement of the highest number of people to allow our project to gather as many children and youth worldwide as possible.

This project should have a prophetic vision.

It should have a universal character.


A NEWSLETTER OF THE PROJECT “I CAN!” WILL ACCOMPANY US DURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROJECT.


Philippe Richard
Secretary General of International Office for Catholic Education (OIEC).

Educational Guide "I can"
click here


INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ORGANISMS, INSTITUTIONS OR ENTITIES THAT PARTICIPATE OR JOIN THE PROJECT I CAN!”

Personalise the LETTER:

It is important to personalize the attached letter and adapt it to your context and addressees, in case it is needed. Feel free to remove the logo OIEC and use yours; you can also include your own paragraphs…and finish the letter with your signature.

Personalise the TEACHING GUIDE:

You can also include your logo on the cover of the teaching guide. You can place it next to the OIEC one or even use yours instead of that.
In that case, send your logo in high definition to: [email protected]
This way, the editor will modify the cover and send you a personalized teaching guide so that you can share it with your own logo.

Sharing the teaching guide “¡I CAN!”

Use every available cannel: web, social networks, email, etc.

Print:

You are allowed to print and share it on paper.