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Footprints leave Easter Again, 7000 young people gather to create living spaces in low income communities in the country and to grow as people Tags: huellassemana santaretiroredResources
Sources Patty Gimon
Agency for Social Action Network - As part of its efforts to the formation of values, the deepening of faith and the promotion of leadership, the Youth Movement Traces, founded in 1989 and consists of more than 7000 young people, plans to conduct two events to celebrate Holy Week through various sectors of Venezuela.First, it will be five Blue Footprints Mission Camps I, involving young people 16 to 18 years of first diversified in various rural areas of the country: San Joaquin - Carabobo, Sierrita Mara - Zulia, Temblador - Monagas, James - Trujillo, and The Void - Apure.
As Jonny said Paez, one of the organizers of the movement, "the idea is that young people accompanying the inhabitants of these communities on religious holidays of Easter and do the Stations of the Cross and bless homes, among other activities."
Second, adolescents held diversified second Spiritual Exercises for Tracks Blue II in San Xavier del Valle and Chama; The Junquito, Vargas state, and in Maturin, Monagas state. In this activity, the volunteers will have the opportunity to spend several days on retreat. It will take place in various way houses located in the above areas, there exercises managers will guide young people to pray, think, think and live the religious experience of renewal at Easter.
Carlos Campos, 18, says that each time you participate in any of these events feels that "help to grow mentally and spiritually" and that this year will be another who will attend the Camp Mission.
"We always go to the poorest neighborhoods in the country, we support, we note recreate and Catholicism. Last year we went to La Penita, Miranda state, and it really was a tremendous experience. Live them everyday, while we met entirely new things, "said Campos, who spent seven years working with the Youth Movement and is currently a student Traces of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning at the Instituto Carlos Fiol Marapa Marina.
Campos said he was invited to the movement when he was only eleven years, he accepted because he is Catholic and from childhood he liked helping others.
Meanwhile, Newver Urbaneja, also 18, has spent nearly seven years working with Traces and for him, these experiences do more than help communities also benefit the volunteers, because help adolescents cope , develop leadership, socialize and share with poor people. As for the retreats, the huellista ensures that these reflections has been known more for himself.
Urbaneja currently studying Castilian, and Latin literature at the Pedagogical Institute of Caracas, located in Paradise, and confesses that began in Footprints because he rides drew attention they do, but now the movement has been gaining much of his life, Venezuela likes to learn and loves to share with the people who work there. "I am among those who really want to go," he says.
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 The main office of the Youth Movement Traces is located on Calle Andres Bello in Los Flores de Catia, next to Jesus Obrero Technical Institute, at house number 09-19PB. Caracas, Venezuela. For more information, please contact by phone (0212) 8631650 and (0212) 8609742, with office hours from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.