Cana
Sunday, July 1st, after
celebrating the end of all the other schools of the Mission, is now the turn of
the "Cana" Women's Training
Center. Opened in 2004, this small school is reserved for girls and women who
receive training on childcare, family economics, cooking, sewing, cutting,
embroidery and knitting, for the duration of 3 years.
The "Cana" Center is
supported by our friends of Prague members of the Organization SIRIR.ORG, and
takes its name from the Gospel: it is at Cana that Jesus performs his first
miracle, changing the water into wine, pushed and convinced by Mary, his
mother. Once more Cana highlights female ability and genius.
For the end of the school year girls
and women give their best. They come at Mass, offering to God and the poor part
of what they have done. In the parish hall their show of their handmade by them:
clothes, sweaters, sweets, embroidered sheets. In the afternoon we deliver
report cards and diplomas to those who did complete the three-year training
course.
Monday morning we start again! At
4.30 am I leave towards Bangui, where I arrive at 11.00 am. The roads continue
to get worse, and it takes six and a half hours to travel 400 km. Even the sectors
of the roads covered with asphalt get worse by the day.
On Tuesday I’m at our Carmel Bangui
convent for a ceremony. It's about laying the first stone of ... a chicken
coop! In 2016, after the Pope's visit to Central Africa, the Italian government
was committed to helping the Country with a training project on agriculture,
targeting especially young people. Carmel is a large agricultural center of 130
hectares, created by Father Anastasio twenty years ago or so, with the aim of
helping people and the country, through agriculture. There is a large
plantation of oil palm trees, another, just begun, of coffee, and a large
nursery of tropical plants. There is also a breeding shed with about eighty
cows.
The project, which involves Italy,
FAO, the COOPI NGO, some Nobel prizes (Yunus and others), finally begins to
take shape, and on Tuesday there was a simple ceremony to present the project
and start the works. And soon, I hope, the first young people can begin the
training courses on agriculture, breeding, transformation...
On Wednesday at 4.30 am departure
from Bangui, and in the evening I am finally in Bozoum, after a short visit to
Baoro and Bouar. Keep going!
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