Great
response from the children......... poor response from the adults.
Few weeks ago I proposed a food and money
collection on behalf of 200 Muslims who have chosen to stay in Bozoum. The
majority of them are women and children because the men, the most in danger,
had to run away to safety due to the threats of the anti-“balaka”.
Once a month, during Sunday Mass, we make a
second collection for the poor. On Sunday, the 2nd of November, my parishioners
surprised me once again: they started, in a long line up, to bring manioc,
peanuts and other products plus money, all goods destined to the Muslims who
are now suffering in Bozoum. A beautiful and substantial gesture if one
considers that the average collection it’s no more than 15 or 20 euros while
the collection of last Sunday was about 70 euros. An unbelievable gesture of
good will, forgiveness and love by the simple people of Bozoum!!
Usually on Sunday afternoon I take some
youths, boys and girls, who work for the ONG here in Bozoum, to visit the
rice-fields. It’s always amazing to see firsthand the care and attention put in
a job well done.
On Monday we’ll receive the visit of some
UN representatives, they work for MINUSCA here in Central Africa, which is the
intervention program of UN Peacekeepers (but also a support to the Government
and to Justice). Lots of means, not yet results. Despite the few thousands
soldiers, still there are massacres and attacks and the National Road #1, the
only road that links up Bangui to the Cameroun is controlled by criminals who
assault, stop and spoil the cars, even the ones of humanitarian convoys
steeling everything they carry. Once more we have lots of means and money but
minimal results.
On Saturday, November 08, we experienced a
moment of JOY, a breath of HOPE, with the inauguration of the “Maison de la
Paix”, a structure that the ONG ACTED did refit to be used by the “Comite’ des
Sages”, a group of Bozoum people determined to re-establish a minimum of PEACE
and JUSTICE.
Ahead with hope, always!!
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