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| Fiori di mango Fleurs de mangue |
Bangui -
Bozoum
On my return from Cameroon, last
Wednesday, January 9th, I spent a few days in Bangui with my friends, members
of the NGO, Siriri from the Czech Republic with whom we have been collaborating
for years. Thursday and Friday were days full of meetings and briefings,
between Ministries and several Organizations.
On Saturday morning, Paolo Silvestro
and Giuseppe Occelli arrived from Cuneo. Their journey was very long, due to a
canceled flight by Air France, which then forced our two friends to begin an
even longer flight journey: Paris, Casablanca in Morocco, Douala in Cameroon
and finally Bangui! At about 10 am, with loaded the cars, we all left, 3 Czechs
and 2 Italians, towards Bozoum. The road continues to be in bad shape.
Furthermore, the road construction inaugurated in August on the Bossemptele -
Bozoum track has not advanced. In 5 months 13 km have been repaired (and very
badly, at that).
We arrived Saturday night in Bozoum,
and Sunday morning, after the Masses, I delivered the wheelchair, which I
bought in Cameroon, to Gauthier: he was one very happy fellow! With the guests from
the Czech Republic, we went to visit the schools. Just in recent days we had
the visit of second in command for the Ministry of Education (the Director
General of Teaching) who visited our high school and elementary schools,
expressing his appreciation.
The preparation for the Agricultural
Fair is also going to take place next week. Unfortunately, other severe
problems have intensified. Our area has been disturbed by armed men for a
couple of weeks. On the streets around Bozoum there are the Peuls (Mbororo, a
nomadic people of shepherds) fleeing their "protectors", the rebels
of the 3R movement. Occasionally also the local population is implicated, with
some antibalaka attacking the villages attracted by the livestock. This
triggers the rebels' reaction, with more killings and devastations.
On Wednesday afternoon they called me
to go to a village, 10 km from Bozoum. Here I found a family of Peuls, who were
running away: a mother (pregnant), a girl and three children. They had lost
everything and were very scared. I brought them to Bozoum, and welcomed them at
our Mission facilities. Today, Thursday, I took them to the hospital, where the
doctor saw them, and we got them the necessary medication. Fortunately, one of
the sisters knows Foufouldè, and we were able to have a brief chat.
For how long will peace be so fragile
in this country?
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| Presentazione del Programma "Imparare giocando" ai Vescovi del Centrafrica Présentation du programme "Apprendre en jouant" aux éveques de Centrafrique |
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| Intervista al disegnatore Didier Kassai |
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| Gauthier |
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| George, Ludmila et Veronika di SIRIRI.ORG |
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| gli alunni di 3a Liceo nelle nuove aule Les élèves de Terminale devant les nouvelles salles de classe |
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| Issa, con la sua capretta Issa, avec sa chèvre |
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| Giuseppe Occelli |
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