Sow
water,
a hope for the Sahel
Elio
Pacilio
Executiv Vice-President
Green Cross Italy
The Africa weighed heavy as a big stone on our conscience
and in our common future.
Take care of Africa is fair. We can't tolerate that
the conditions of life of milions of people, are those in
which a lot of African populations live.
Concrete facts give us inevitable informations: figures,
images and shock film periodically are focus on the pupils
of the citizens of the North of the world.
These informations represent the extreme poverty, the death
rate due to hunger and thirst. The diffusion of HIV:
with dead, infected and orphans.
The resumption of diseases as malaria, tuberculoisis or
measles.
But also wars, those fighted all over the world this last
decades, caused more of half of dead in Africa.
Result: in the great part of the subsaharian countries the
hope of living don't exceed the forty. Moreover, about the
40% of the children in the world that can't attend a school
live in those countries.
We have to take part in it, our ethic sense and our moral
force us to do it. Not only, our awareness that helping
Africa we help the future of our children force us to do
it. In fact, how we can think that problems like that could
remain isolated, restrict, faraway, in so overall and linked
world?
Nothing can break off the travel of the hopeless for arrive
where they ca be assisted, where the dream take up again.The
dream of a future for their children.
We want help them in order to take up them dreaming without
cut off their roots and their culture. We want to take our
knowledge without eliminate their history.
It's frequent to speak of Africa in singular.
But Africa is plural and it will be better start to talk
of severals Africa.
We have direct one of our projects in Burkina
Faso, country known for been at the last position in
all the rating of poverty. It's a country in which the pride
of the people it's the first component of resistance and
rebirth. It's a country in which is in progress a big local
and overall effort. In the Africa a lot of things are in
start up, severals things are changing and in the middle
of the rubble there are a lot of opportunities. We wanted
start from the Water.Primary element for living.
With the populations of two countries of the North of Burkina
Faso we have start to work for bring back the water in the
villages. Either for the drinking water and for the health
services. For domestic use and for the community, for the
education and for the agriculture.
The work is to restore some forsaken wells and build some
special tanks that collect and preserve rainwater: a sort
of Water's House.
These houses have a community use and represent a new market
place where consolidate the respondability in the management
of the resort.
In the local tradition, some private house will change not
only through the achievement of special interventions for
collect and keep water.
The technologies and the materials will be local and essential,
in order to be easly reproduced and manage locally. Part
of the intervention promote the support in the basic agriculture
activities with the aim af alleviate emigration toward the
capital, provide the development of the economic activities,
increase the social cohesion and improve the health of the
population.
The population will be involved in the project from the
preparation of it, they follow the starting and thay will
have the management responsibility.
15.000 people will be benefited of this effort that lasts
three years.
Just friends join this adventure; they like us are persuaded
of the worth of the project and the necessity of acting.
We are waiting for more, able to have a dream and with the
will of share it with our friend Burkinabè.
Elio Pacilio
Executiv Vice-President
Green Cross Italy
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