the mayor of cannelloni, Yamandu Orsiexposed before the Pope Francisco this Thursday on behalf of dozens of Ibero-American mayors and governors in the framework of a meeting of ecological schools.
of the meeting called Eco Educational CitiesThe mayoress of the CH municipality of Montevideo, Matilde Antia.
Orsi and Antía graduated from school “Laudate yes“, an initiative promoted by the Vatican organization Scholas and for him Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) collects the principles of the encyclical of Pope Francis on the care of the environment.
The mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, was in charge of presenting the conclusions of the meeting in front of Francisco. “We all adhere to generating a support and learning network,” said the presidential candidate of the Broad Front (FA) and favorite for the 2024 presidential elections according to several recently published polls.
“The fear was ‘now how do we continue?’ because we are many. One of the ideas is to work training our people and through CAF to be able to generate concrete answers for these simple things, which are not very complicated, but which allow us to at least work in that closeness with the people who are suffering,” he continued. .
Orsi had special words of gratitude for Pope Francis: “gratitude is enormous because we receive here that blessing that arises from humility and understanding that the great transformations begin in the simplest things and the closeness that we all have. Thank you very much, Your Holiness, we are grateful and we are transformed.”
“For three days they participated in group dynamics, workshops, spaces for exchanging ideas and discussions with international experts to strengthen their management and leadership capacities and to find solutions to the great development challenges that cities will face in the coming decades”, CAF explained, Telemundo reported.
Source: Ambito
