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Convergencia de las Culturas

Convergence of Cultures is an organism that is part of the Humanist Movement. Its mission is: 1. To facilitate and stimulate dialogue between cultures. 2. To fight discrimination and violence. 3. To take its proposal to all latitudes. www.convergenceofcultures.org

I am a blind person who feels a lot of love and force: a testimony of life

“Your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness.” My name is Antonia. I was 26 years old, I was reading at the time when I rubbed my eye and I resumed reading and suddenly I…

Chile: My life has been beautiful…

I was born in a Diaguita territory, in the inlet of Tequirque on the hill of Kokimpu in 1964, I have lived in Coquimbo all my life and I am the creator of some musical instruments with South-Andean influences in…

Current family model in crisis

Today, 15 May, World Day of the Family, we would like to invite you to reflect on a more humane, broad and convergent proposal. The family, historically, has been part of a “social fabric” of support and containment. Community networks:…

Adapted and autonomous voting for blind people

One of the most important elements of the human being is his personal autonomy, to fend for himself, of course with the help of technology, because without it no human being could, for example, fly or sail, talk to someone…

World Press Freedom Day, a non-celebration

When it is announced that it is World Press Freedom Day, and we consider the opinions that this celebration raises, we find a large number of complaints and claims regarding the lack of freedom that the press suffers, which is…

Sighted people are necessary for blind people

In the public talk given by Silo on May 4, 1969, in minute 5:00 he said: “There is another kind of suffering that does not depend on the illness of your body, but derives from it, if you are handicapped,…

The marginalised of the marginalised

Silo’s words that framed our project to sensitise sighted people to the group of blind people marginalised by our society: “When you do something for others, when you look for the needy, the disoriented, the dispossessed and help them to…

Argentina: urgent support for Mapuche women prisoners

2023, Argentina. In the country of the award-winning “1985”, human rights continue to be violated. 4 Mapuche women have been imprisoned for more than 6 months, crammed with their children, and accused of a crime that the law does not…

Humanising functional rediscrimination

Most people are typical, they have a typical behaviour and some have a different behaviour which makes them atypical. Atypical because they feel, think and act differently from the majority. On the National Autism and Asperger Awareness Day, which is…

Invitation to the Convergence of Cultures’ 1st Virtual World Conference

This is an unprecedented moment in our history, in terms of the interaction between different cultures, which is generating important crises. At the same time, it opens up enormous possibilities for a new spiritual horizon, which will have its social…

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