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SOS SPESE

11/12/2023

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​SOS Spese is doing something very important for Mother Earth and some of its less fortunate citizens. It all started during the pandemics, when people were not able to go out to buy their groceries. The initial idea was to buy it for those in need, but then they realized that the problem was worse, because most people couldn’t afford to buy their own food anymore. 
Europe is known as a place where 153 millions tons of food are thrown away every year. It’s more than what Europe imports. Actually it seems that they import to throw it away. And good food it is!
SOS Spese once a week, goes to the fruit and vegetable market of Verona to pick up what is being thrown out and distributes it among around 70 families in need.
So SOS Spese once a week, goes to the fruit and vegetable market of Verona to pick up what is being thrown out and distributes it among around 70 families in need. Every Friday a van with volunteers goes to the market and returns with what they got. It starts early in the morning and around 10:30 am it arrives at the Paratodos shed where there is always a line of people waiting to receive their weekly share of food, good food. The volunteers arrange the fruits and vegetables and help to distribute them. People from all nationalities, gender and age come and even the volunteers pick up their food.
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Imagine if we could make an SOS Spese in every city in Europe and in the world? Wouldn’t it be a wonderful way to help ourselves and to help Mother Earth?
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War is not a women’s game

11/4/2023

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Thursday is a great day! We got together at Casa di Ramia for the Flying Carpet Lab. There we weave a carpet while hearing stories from the “ 1001 Nights Tales”. We discuss the diverse aspects of the day's tale while learning to weave and at the end each writes down on a piece of paper a word or two of what has impacted most on this day. These papers - stickers, are then glued in the carpet weaver machine.
This week we are back after a long and hot summer. And we are starting a new carpet -  will weave it together! To start we have to prepare the yard in the loom.But there is a problem: everything done has to be blessed and when blessed it has a soul. We aren’t sure if our loom preparation will be right, should we bless something that could end up wrong? We discussed it for almost an hour, each putting forward their own point of view. The women of Arabic culture said that it’s a bad omen to bless something that may not come out good, the others, including some Africans thought that even when we have the possibility of doing wrong, it should be blessed, because everything in its bottom has a soul, a good soul. And we voted, and the blessing was the winner. With  that decided we started dancing, playing drums, chanting all together, while some women prepared the loom. The loom now is ready, blessed and has a soul. We congregate to lunch together, food offered by another NGO that feeds those in need. So we congregated in the garden and ate together. We were from Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, Palestina, Italia and Brazil. There was peace and harmony among us.
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    • About >
      • How it all began >
        • The FIRST Green Tent in Verona
    • Leadership Circle
  • EVENTS
    • Upcoming Events >
      • International Women's Day Event
      • CSW 2026
    • Ongoing Events >
      • GTC Solidarity Economy
      • Monthly Illuminator Series
      • Everyone Can Do Something for Mother Earth!
    • Past Events >
      • Honoring Mother Earth
      • CSW Workshops 2025
      • Caring for Creation
      • Virtual Women's March
      • Summer Solstice Celebration
      • Power of Beauty Project
      • CSW Workshop - March 2024
      • Parliament of the Worlds Religions Workshop - August 2023
      • CSW Event - Past - March 2022
      • Abitare Leggere La Terra - October 2022
  • Illuminators
    • White Roses Circle Series
    • Illuminators 2025 >
      • Illuminator Series 20 Dora Sugimoto
    • Illuminators 2024 >
      • Illuminator Series 19 Angaangaq
      • Illuminator Series 18 Dr. Karambu Ringera
      • Illuminator Series 17 Dolly Dastoor PhD
      • Illuminator Series 16 CSW Workshop & Storytelling, Water Ceremony Events
      • Illuminator Series 15 Osprey Orielle Lake
      • Illuminator Series 14 Great Grandmother Mary Lyons
    • Illuminators 2023 >
      • Illuminator Series 12 Elena Migliavacca
      • Illuminator Series 11 Jacqueline Patterson
      • Illuminator Series 10 - Kehkashan Basu M.S.M
      • Illuminator Series 9 - Parliament of the Worlds Religions
      • Illuminator Series 8 - Pintadas Group
      • Illuminator Series 7 - Leah Myers
      • Illuminator Series 6 Lourivania Soares Santos
      • Illuminator Series 5 Dale Allen
      • Illuminator Series 4 Winter Solstice
      • Illuminator Series 3 - Patricia Fero
      • Illuminator Series 2 - Jean Shinoda Bolen
      • Illuminator Series 1 - Marty Casey
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    • Love Letters Blog by Leah Myers
    • Messages from Mother Blog by Patricia Fero
    • Affidamento - A matter of Relationship and Trust by Anja Mays
    • Whispering Feathers by Sabine Rieser
    • Aanakasaap Illua - Hope by Angaangaq
    • Forest Whispers by Julia Marie Hofer
    • Ancestral Wisdom by Grandmother Gayle Crosmaz
    • Higher & Deeper by Jeanne DeRousseau
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