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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