Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jul 27, 2013 / 18:08 pm
A group of World Youth Day volunteers hope the event's innumerable pilgrims will donate their sleeping bags to the homeless to start living the Pope's call to charity.
One volunteer, Inés San Martín, told CNA July 27 that the idea is important because it is "a concrete response to start putting into practice, from this moment, what Pope Francis has been preaching these days."
The volunteers have publicized their idea on their new blog called "Contá con nosotros," or "Count on us." They hope that the more than one million youths gathered in Brazil will give their sleeping bags to the thousands of homeless in Rio de Janeiro instead of taking them home.
"During one week we interrupt the homeless with our singing when we return home," San Martín said. "Giving them a sleeping bag is the perfect excuse to come close to them and explain them why!"