The boys and girls who arrived in Como thanks to “Frontiere di Pace”, a group of volunteers from the parish of Santa Maria Assunta di Maccio di Villa Guardia, which has been involved in humanitarian missions in Ukraine for over two years, will leave again today for Ukraine. They have been in Italy for two weeks, during which they have met and made new friends, guests in Como of the Casa scout Don Titino inside Spina Verde. The group is made up of 20 girls and 10 boys who arrived last June 14 from Kharkiv, after a journey of 2800 kilometers. The youngest is 11 years old, the oldest is 16. Accompanying them were Sister Sestra Olexia and Father Andriy Nasinnyk, director of Caritas. The trip was possible thanks to the collaboration of the scout groups of Como and the diocesan Caritas. Yesterday morning Sister Olexia and Father Nasinnyk met the operators of the diocesan Caritas of Como at Casa Nazareth, with the bishop of Como, Cardinal Oscar Cantoni. In these days, another group is hosted in Val d’Intelvi in Ponna, in the premises of the parish house, thanks to two volunteers, Giovanni Ambrosi and Luca Chiesa, with the collaboration of the parish of San Fedele Intelvi. Two groups were hosted in June, the first from Kiev and the second from Zaporizhzhya. In total, in the last three years 170 children and young people have been hosted in Ponna. Instead, the Colonia Comerio in Aprica, in the province of Sondrio, will host for the third consecutive year a group of Ukrainian children and young people with their companions, from 11 to 24 August. Also this year, the Diocesan Caritas of Como has chosen to join the Caritas Italiana project “It’s more beautiful together”, a program of solidarity holidays for minors and companions from war contexts. In total 700, of which 100 hosted in Valtellina.
