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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.!
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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!
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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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