Our meeting with COEMM in Udine

We are continuing to shape our partnership consistently and with great joy.

25 people attended the meeting the day before yesterday, on 15 May. Some came from other COEMM groups in Udine. Among others, Sig. Maurizio Sarlo, Secretary General of the COEMM organisation, also visited us.

He reported on the status of the project to fight poverty and explained his vision for it. Two ladies who grew up in German-speaking Switzerland and have been living in Palmanova for many years kindly interpreted fluently for us, so we were able to follow proceedings well. After Sig. Sarlo’s remarks, I handed over a message of greeting from the GAIA management. He is very pleased about the good contacts with Austria and with GAIA.

Everyone enjoyed the gifts we had brought along: a Lungau bacon platter, venison sausages, cheese, farmhouse bread, beer and elderflower juice. All the food and drink were genuinely organic products. Everyone liked that.

Opportunities and our further plans

Now we can keep working consistently on the opportunities these contacts have opened up. We would like to try building a cell like COEMM group 5 in Udine here in Austria too. The communicative networking and flow of information as it works at COEMM should be easy for GAIA to achieve. Above all, this must be a concern of those responsible in the individual branches. However great and important one’s own contributions and activities may seem, we must never lose sight of the overall goal. Here we need to be careful and make sure we are not distracted by scheming outside influences.

In any case, we will continue to expand our relations with COEMM, and at our next meeting in Udine (probably in June) we will present something that the Italians in particular can really use.

Some participants of the evening also announced that they intend to come and visit us. We are absolutely delighted about that!

Best wishes to everyone from the beautiful Lungau, Peter Gschwendtner

I hope that this review inspires as many people at GAIA as possible, and I am happy to exchange ideas. Please send emails to p.gschwendtner@gaia-energy.org or call me on +43 676 3397494 – WhatsApp works too.