Pain Behind Ears & Laughing

THAT SURPRISES ME PREPARED BEFORE CHRISTMAS? Nunzia

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Dear all,

of giving you the Lord, I ask him to open the window on the side Africa ... We know it is very busy with issues of high politics: litigation, G20, G8 etc ... celibacy of priests.

BUT HERE IS WHY DIE 'SIMPLY NOT RAINING AND food prices are too high for us.

I went to fill up with diesel preparing Birr 200 (local currency), as usual ... and I came a shot when I saw three scoring 580 Birr in the car ... we had only 400. We were regarded with pity at the gas station that has given us credit. While we waited, an old (in face), young (in age) friend was asking me to help or at least take care of her little girl of 2 years (before that happens to follow her sister in the afterlife for HIV), however there He also asked her to do a computer course free ...

Two days ago (26/11/2009) I would have written a detailed letter on surprise visits to Faja (Santina, Alfredo and P. Thomas, the latter nicknamed Schumacher because the hole takes it all and always high-speed dodging carts also e. ..), the villages 010, Tikur Wuha, Mejaha Kindergarten, Nursery School and Sequoia 01 (Nunzio Alfredo, Schumacher and Wubishet while Santina is improvised Luciano Nurse Assistant to the village of lepers, better defined Nutrition Centre). Meanwhile, Gigi, Abu and the team were struggling with the recent work in Mejaha for the new school.

I have listed the areas in proportion to the degree of cramp in the heart and brain.

Then, in Faja children deserted the school because they help in the fields and because none of us brings aid or materials. The 200 T-shirt (half pseudo uniforms, paid with 200 € donated by the Parish of St. Luke) have given proud to distribute only 70 children who flocked to the other, bring candy and scolded by parents and teachers because children were not in school ... But we also deserve the scolding that does not help them more, perhaps the choice not to put them up for adoption at a distance but it was the wrong twin.

Area 010: Do not believe it, also the sister of Foucald ask us to take to school and support a dozen of them children from the villages of former leprosy patients. And to think that we were asked to delete them years ago because their parents were opposed to them to photograph and interview. Wednesday morning we were with them to Mass and then to the distribution of a lean snack, the more I came, more stretched with the Famix water (a mixture of flour, soybeans, etc.. with added protein from the questionable taste). The doctor is left to control our children and adults with coughs and swollen from malnutrition: increase tuberculosis, malaria and some cases of leprosy to new environmental conditions worsened. It has not rained since we arrived, the air is dusty and dirty, the children play in the pitch and roll as a kid, how to keep them clean?

Tikur Wuha : we went to check if the children were in school, many are now in 2nd grade 1.ae in the government school, I sent a few days before Santina there to photograph the children in the new reality. I do not see are made remind me not to the Director and the masters of the promise of other banks and boards ... that is never enough. I wonder then if it is healthier to school under the few trees around there. At least here the light is there. In our kindergarten we decided not to distribute shoes and aprons for newcomers: there are too many and growing fast. Do not even put them up for adoption at a distance because the area around the lake there is an air evacuation of the refugee camps there for five years now, has anyone even attempted to cut electricity wires. Where will they go? Who collects the brave few things and went to swell the outskirts of town, do not be surprised, then, if we change a lot ' of children and Mejaha Tikur Wuha. Our visit was a surprise, but we had us a surprise: small children in the classroom, good good, with little brothers or sisters largest ... The new teachers have a tender heart and lack of professionalism, we have said, "parents are working, rather than leaving them in danger around the lake keep them in school." But then, that school is? I'm thinking of a solution: any mother who gathers her chicks ... in a nursery. In a combined near the church?
should be equipped with still another GIFT OF ANTONELLA.

Mejaha : kindergarten surprise there. The children more orderly and attentive as ever, we greeted them from the windows open ... finally. We checked the records as in other schools, and asked about a mother's angry because we had refused to sign up for the children. Well, we did not expect to find the two children in the classroom, the teacher tells us that he paid for the whole year by selling clothes and beds, home ... SHAME TO U.S.!


PART

Imagine living in ITALY With a continued power cuts'. Shashamane is a city and also we are accustomed to a certain "luxury" does not exist in some villages. This letter was started 24 hours ago, but have not stopped ... only for electricity. I no longer work in the office, but almost hidden in my room, because there 's always someone who wants to say hello ... and ask for something. Shubissa Bale has his mother locked in a 400 km of gravel road, which is largely unpaved and turns that go up to 4000 m. The landscape is beautiful but his mother threatened with amputation of the leg ... I can not recommend it ... goes sad, sad.

RETURN, then, with some guilt, talking about schools.

The opening last Thursday of new buildings, constructed with the support of Calzedonia / Fondazione S. Zeno was simple and beautiful. Santina was the godmother of the new school. They had just arrived from Italy P. Vitali, the president of the GMA in Montagnana (PD) with other guests Direct Soddo, then stop to see, hear, think and be happy that something is sketched in 2006 to 40% a reality. Yes, because that will send the pictures you will notice that many classes (60%) should be remade: ... THE MUD TO THE COLOR AND THE STRENGTH '. The road may be short! We were not able to make promises, we have indeed apologized to the boys who continue to study in dilapidated environments. This morning

Luciano, Santina and Alfredo are the children boarding the blind, our doctor hopes to visit those in need, I've chased them with a large box of multivitamins, a gift of Marco Onlus "Medicine" in Rome. Luciano's smile keeps telling me that bread, hygiene and proteins are the best medicine in this period for children ends the mission.

return to our little school: order and happiness to 01 Sequoia School ... but even here the letter ready to e. .. small claims disputing Mattheos Marcos (is small but it will be a leader) and older children: uniforms are of poor quality and on Wednesday if they can not wear wet to dry the night before, and I wonder why not hand out a couple? I asked for a contribution of 28 Birr for even a tenth of its cost, to understand that ... Applications must be covered by a budget and personal sacrifice. Even Tikur Wuha we get contributions from 15 Birr (0.80 €). I wonder if we have understood.

Gigi is explaining to the cook in Veneto-Italian, which triggered the breaker if there is a problem and therefore we must insist with wet hands to put on. In the laboratories of the electrical system is skipped school with a small fire ... result, the new women's center can not be opened before the start of Santina and Alfredo. Gigi really voluntary technical as it would take a dozen, but there are all these retired before the playing cards or talking about football?

Monday there is the feast of the parish dedicated to Mari Zion, I am sorry that Father Silvio is in Italy but I'm happy for him to come out of problems that often are not problems: decorations? I responded as it did Mary and the scout map drawn, ivy woven belts made from old blankets and fantasy ...! I was looked upon with suspicion or Nunzia took too much sun or not a Lira (Birr).

to clean the small courtyard of Casa Norma asked me 2 beers in my head ... then organize a lottery to make a contribution to the Festival for the poor! Rita, our bakery, we got 10 thousand Birr (about 600 Euro) ... will transfer to the new Center for Women? ... NO! expect Christmas and Providence. BIG KISS TO ALL, this time to Pina in particular that was mentioned several times in order to reorganize the New Women's Center with a triple in the first place ... Pina send us ideas!


PS

COMING SOON:

December 3 will be the departure of Santini and ALFREDO you updated ... and take photos and movies that put you on our WEB SITE. Santina and Alfredo are available to run in schools, parishes and so on.

be withdrawn from the list the young persons and large, difficult to follow and photograph because they are around the university in Ethiopia (it is the government that decides the destination and the right). P. Silvio will help fund an emergency case. Replace these boys and girls with lots of little orphans and street children who would not know how to maintain, HELP U.S. TO HELP THEM WITH THE SPONSORSHIP, so far we have listed 86 ... chicks are small, says a friend of ours who need help to put wings ... and then fly high.

WITH THE HELP OF LUCIANO prepare a medical card and follow the children sicker. CONTROLLER FOR OTHERS 'personal and family situation with the help of local leaders.

Best of all is waiting for the return of P. Silvio in good shape e. .. STARTING. However, volunteers will arrive two dentists and Joan!

THAT SURPRISES ME PREPARED BEFORE CHRISTMAS?


NUNZIA

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writes from Shashemane ...



Dear all, I take Alessia

as an ambassador of all that I endure patiently and try to write before I put a penalty for delay at the table. How are things? Well, now I come back from Mejaha. Over the past 3years our children began to come clean and less torn .... but now seems to have returned to 2003. On the streets, long lines of carts overflowing with grain, come from nearby villages ..... put the rumor that the prices, tripled last year to sell off all fall and unscrupulous merchants from which buying back a few months to eat at ... higher prices, because this crisis will not go on holiday so soon. At the market we also sell the clothes they have on me, I could not believe it! Jacquie Sr I just asked (they are usually 14.30 and electricity have betrayed us):

1. to go with her to see a mother with three children on the edge of a stream in dry or in the open sewer;
2. 3000Birr to prepare women for the CP to provide microcredit to other women;
3. to buy bags and other products from the group Women in Prison, if not work mad. At least we feel useful to their children (many are in for murder .... the partner);
4. put up for adoption at a distance about twenty children, have the list ready;
5. to go more often in Standard House, the boys know that a lot of work but I also think that I do not want them as well in the past (we went there last Sunday and tomorrow we go to the large family house - 12/18anni)
6. 3 boys to organize and sell used clothing to keep the families. Santina

the feeding center



Sr Jacquie was in a hurry and did not give me time to respond.

Santina, our cultural mediator, he's fine but asks me to cry because he can not look in the eyes of a child Tikur Wuha swollen from malnutrition and more. I told her that the anger the sight of such misery, or that we are tying you to cry all day?? We can not afford it! And then at 7:00 this morning at Mass I closed my eyes and imagined that the beautiful songs of the children's choir were Dall'Antonia for Zecchino d'oro. But the rags that covered the children were not signed and did not protect from the cold in the morning (I will send you photos).

But I also saw the beautiful part of Mejaha just finished school, our boys were competing in the paint only to be told konjo (beautiful) and receive a packet of biscuits, in response I have earned many smiles or close of hand that was a caress of small fingers. We asked children, as well as other visits, to eat bread or biscuits in the school yard, outside the gates because they were robbed ...

Here is a letter:


Hello Mary
I wanted to start this diary primogiorno since our arrival in Ethiopia, but I did not understand what kind of emotions I felt. L 'disbelief' to finally be in my native country (something dreamed for so long), to witness the lifestyle of an unfortunate slice of humanity ', the very dignified lives of many sick, I was not aroused pity' but rather rage: why 'is not possible to let people live in this way.
at the airport all spoke to me in Amharic, my Italian and being Italian was not included, it was strange to find myself in the black majority, I said "I'm home wau"
the mission of my children laughing and broken Amharic I was told the same things as school children in Italy that is not an authentic African children here they promised me they will teach the local official language, Amharic, this authentic Italian aunt, but coffee / milk (Bunna / wotet) for physical features but also in speech, dress, etc.. On the Road Addis
/ Shashamane stared at people and landscapes that suddenly became familiar, and yet I was very small when I left Ethiopia.
Grande 'was the emotion and tenderness that I have raised children of the Family House. In embracing, in trying to greet me taking my hand (too bad to have only two!), He felt the desire for 'love, has filled my heart. That tenderness to see them in church to pray during Vespers: participate with seriousness' and sing like angels.
Yesterday I went to see the school Mejaha, c 'were the new buildings made to the GMA with contributions Calzedonia-San Zeno and ... ... .... Cika of other old and dilapidated, in the latter, infinite squalor, the children were herded into classrooms dark and smelly. How do they study in those conditions? Yet in the government schools the rate is very high. Today I went with
Tariku and Astaway to Awasa, a city 'university differs so much from Shashamanne: and' more 'beautiful and poverty', apparently, not slaps on every corner as Shashamanne. For Awasa we went to buy kilos of drugs for the surgery only available to government outlets: 3 hours filming for a stamp or a receipt. We have filled, but 'half truck, I asked if they recovered what they had spent Astaway smiled because' the sick who come on a mission are the poorest of the poor and asks only a small contribution, those who can afford it by private practitioners. So I understand why 'abba Silvio few days and a bad temper, all knocking at the door of the Mission, the poor of any ethnicity and religion, it makes me think about things not strictly necessary that they give us in Italy and brought here with hard work, here are Money to stop and deal with situations every day more 'difficult. Rita
an Italian / Ethiopian Dilla invited me to visit a village situated about 100km from Shashamanne and I noted that different ethnic groups live in Ethiopia and not without a little bitterness and conflicts around the economy of survival. Dilla and 'very green, if you would invest more in agriculture and storage you could feed the entire region. Instead, our exports to the world at ridiculous prices to get even a cup of coffee 'cheaper. On the way I have seen all that Nunzio had told me on the exploitation of women and children. The traditional houses are distinguished for their beauty by the decent number of mud and corrugated iron shacks, street vendors by the roadside ... .... Waiting, few buyers. Believe me, Mary, the reality 'beyond the imagination, and' inconceivable that small girls do a lot of miles to get some 'water and firewood and carrying weights so' excessive. The women then, young age, but from 'aged look, pushing carts overloaded with children on their shoulders, barefoot and poorly dressed under a hot sun and dust clouds. I approached a tukul, houses with thatched roof, and I noticed that you live with animals .... when you're wealthy! .
Everything 'makes you think not, you bite the heart. I understand why 'Nunzia argues that we need to see with their own eyes and then tell and increase the awareness of our young people apathetic, bored and spoiled. Not to mention who does the 'indifferent not raising it' voice is' dirty hands to denounce this. I think I will address, in Italy, to elementary school children, they are more 'sensitive and ready to understand, perhaps larger, will less selfish and superficial.
I tell so many other things I saw and that made me think, but there are many, and yet 'spent little time after my arrival. Account to give a hand to the center sr Jacquie Nutritional ... .. I'll really help the nuns to care for the more 'weak and sick?? I notice that I often block in front of the Suffering with a capital S! Of course
step sparrow 'long with the most' children of Casa Norma, I'm going to rearrange their clothes, I noticed someone with the same t-shirt for about ten days, ... .. not to mention the shorts, and ours are lucky because they have a roof and food every day, in addition to school .... the ball that gave him Alfredo.
What else to write and tell you?? Women's Center. ... Of the hospital, Gigi grappling with the many maintenance problems? ... Here I choose the more children we went to take pictures Tikur Wuha else who supports us do not believe that these situations exist. We took baskets of sweet bread that's good ... ... says to children that they see very little. Some children have devoured in minutes, but some have kept under the counter to take home and share it with the fratelli.Quando we went to Casa Norma same story, they kept the chocolate melts away, and wondered that .... At the table then everyone wanted me sit next to them, a moment to feel mother of many here who have lost it, and when 'the meal came to a joke I asked them to give me his flat, unblinking offered me his plate of aluminum with the ingestion and wot. Nunzia told me that do not always eat that way. ... with fruit and meat, but it was Sunday and it was a festive meal. That generosity ', which altruism: I took a bite and I have returned ... plate.
must learn from them?? now I want to conclude by telling you again there 'and need to work hard for these children to survive, look at you with a disarming smile that does not forget' ever. We took out all of the well- God we've got, over the chocolate have been under assault colored pencils, pens etc, soap bars were put in storage with brushes etc. will go to the Christmas gift packages. Thanks and until next time, Santina


Cara Alessia do not worry about the Embassy for help. Luciano tomorrow, the doctor Negrar (Vr), with a suitcase full of orthopedic instruments (hacksaw, pliers, hammer ...) to allow the dr. Stem Francisco to continue to operate. There are also other medications (we have taken over 50kg) and gauze e. .. (We have it good at customs, so we hope that once again turn a blind eye or two). Ethiopia is the hunger, the government says calls are at risk because 7 million people on 80 of the population, but we are left to the south where the percentage is higher. Please Alessandro, Antonella, Pina , etc ... and tell the kids to school kids not to throw garbage in the school canteen food ... I would like to have you here now. Far Shashamane in the summer by volunteering at a lower impact because many children return to their villages of origin. But everyone will remember and ask of you. Mimi, an employee of the school Mejaha, has been very ill, perhaps depression. She ate paper and tearing clothes, and 'was treated and now helps us as always (I will send you one of his letters and photos).

the way, many are asking for gifts that would mandate?? Please do not promise anything to anyone and do not send anything, you create a war between the poor and that we can not meet expectations.

Gigi just called me from Addis, with the children of Abu training is replacing or installing electrical and plumbing systems; not find all the material in Addis and the accumulated fund is exhausted. I told him to do a prayer to St. Antonio (he can also find the wire?) And getting a loan from the parent of the Consolata Missionaries (could not find a name even more appropriate).



Alfredo and Santina are behind the Christmas letters to send, I have to agree that their patience is a virtue.
P. Silvio prepares to leave for the hospital controls. How are you?? He says GOOD! Of course he missed the children, but if the test results are discrete return within 10 days, who taken down from here? Not even a couple of big boys of the Family House and the school who do despair for small drugs, thefts, fights (put them on the door ... but it helps them from a distance) they do give up to do a father to hundreds of kids.

Photos of the small family home





I miss you all and please do not say SHAME to those who complain at the wrong even with the latest model of mobile phone in hand or in front of a large menu for a wedding. We want to respond to the crisis by working in concrete actions for unlucky in the flesh ... Giving up so why not so many useless little habits. The husband

a good / very good because the school and the bridge of Mejaha exceed the standards of local building codes.

Old school Mejaha


New School Mejaha


A big hug to all of you,
Nunzia

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Article Naples proposes that the GMA was written by Mary Clare, a seventeen year old youth group associated with the Catholic Action of Casalnuovo di Napoli (Na), by which, during the October mission, was collected school supplies and personal hygiene. The idea came in to do a project to support the activities of the GMA Naples, very present in Campania. This material has been brought to Ethiopia from Nunzia and other volunteers, now in full swing in the village of Shashemane.



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As we try to make sense of this life, it seems that nowadays more and more a race against the havoc of society, we lose our true goal, that for which God has called us. This project made us realize and return to the main track, made us realize even more how much responsibility we have when this world is falling apart more and more deeper and deeper into a darkness that only the eternal light of God can overturn. Many times we wonder why we got to this point, how can one be so complex in structure and talent to create such evil and suffering to other beings of the same complex and fragile inner structure ... The answer is that it has lost the sense of faith and namely the inability of man to understand that we can not replace God ... that you can not repress that sense of emptiness with material objects of pain from the null value. Very often we take for granted the things we own, and consequently our conduct and our relationship to these things makes us slaves of our daily lives and our "too much", so we do not realize the road you are on and that there away from ourselves first and then by our IT. Here takes over our sense of self-interest after reading an article on the poverty of Aboriginal people and not only just think you are going back to racism, hatred for the other, for the person who does not understand and therefore exclude from our lives and abandoned to his fate loneliness closed in on itself ... And so we ask ourselves and think that more than pray for them we can not do, that there is here is here and there and that our place and our world is not in them. The error consists in this, that is to separate the world to divide them into categories, them and us. To be blunt, the Italian Catholic Action must fight against this idea totally busted: the world is' one and only one, and all deserve a chance, and the same rights and the same privileges, so I agree in saying that we young people Catholic Action with this great opportunity that the Lord has given us we could touch our being so selfish and blind to these problems that should be made of the place of honor at a banquet that God offers us. As written by a great singer and poet of our times, "for us poor people in need are scraps, zeros to the world, are nothing, we see them, do not want them, do not understand them and leave them in a dark corner ". How often have you talked to child soldiers mutilated by evil men and despotic in the heart sick ... but in reality they are the real heroes, they are the ones who dare, it is they who believe, they are that despite their obvious fate trying with all forces them to cry more help to us who remain indifferent, because blind and bored by our same torpor. We gave a sharp stop to all this and there has only been possible thanks to the missionary month, we set up the tent in the square at Casalnuovo and we have not surrendered to the unfavorable weather, or the arrogance of the people .... But not everyone is so lucky, very fortunate for humanity there is still a small pure heart that beats in this sick world, and that allowed us to collect material for those tired-looking child who has already seen all of the enjoy life and it should have the age of the child's pre-adolescence, "luxury" that we have. What more if not "thank you" to people who have heard need help ... who have the gift of the mission and who have been in contact with the situation of poverty that hovers over Africa like a voracious beast of lives, which ultimately gave us first-hand that we should fight poverty, the suffering that we should destroy to make way for a pure and genuine smile. We are missionaries of the Word of God, that Christians would be if we did not need to make the best of our time, that if men would not save a boy who asks for help with his simple eyes off? Our success is in vain, our glory illusion ... It 's the poor who find the power of God ... We serve as a warning not to forget that there are also other and that are part of our family. If we do not accept the zeros of the world not the latter.

Maria Chiara