A day between assessment and wanting to build the future

46 disasters, 22,773 dead, 98 million people affected, and over 66 billion American dollars in 2015 alone: these are some of the figures that Father Aris mentioned in describing an international situation that calls on the great Camillian family to work together at the service of people afflicted by disasters through the Camillian Disaster Service (CADIS). The declared aim was to be aware of what has been happening in the world because of disasters which in their effects appear to be increasingly less ‘natural’. The defence of the rights of the most vulnerable is at the centre of the message which emerged from the deliberations of the assembly. This is a defence that can start from either intervention or prevention, but which certainly has in its heart the weakest. Father Sam during the second session of work read anew the activity of CADIS from the point of view of project-making linked to vulnerability. This re-reading of the strategic plan and the pathway of implementation has witnessed moments of exchange, the analysis of results, and intense and constructive debate. The day ended with ‘world café’ – a technique whose aim was to work on certain questions which involved all of those taking part: 57 people from over 15 countries.

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