Carissimi amici,
a Djambotou sono le otto e ventiquattro di un martedì mattina che non ha ancora regalato al cielo la consueta luce brillante. Sdraiato sul mio letto, con una mezza giornata di riposo, dopo tanti giorni senza notizie, vi invito ancora una volta a spiare questo mondo dalle tendine della mia camera in Cameroun (o "cameroom" come qualcuno ha cominciato a chiamarla) sapendo che queste parole che si snoderanno in mezzo a congegni capaci di far loro percorrere quattromila chilometri in qualche secondo avrei wanted to tell you a voice, keeping his hands and looking into my eyes to get across the color and warmth that this place is capable of giving.
A month and a few days, the French cousins \u200b\u200bembrace their new president, the country Bel squares crowned Italian champions Inter Milan, and here we live without making too much noise and people continue to bring out its challenges. In fact
events deserve a bit of the first page. First of all, it's raining. After two and a half months of the Tarantino scene to fight hot hell of a roaring storm liberating Garoua has restored the joy of the water: my street children have begun to launch barefoot in the puddles of the basketball court of the MJC, the mama danced outside the shops thanking Allah for the immense gift, in the bar toasting to the first major downpour of the year.
I can not deny that I had never enjoyed so the smell of rain.
But the most amazing thing is that it took only three sporadic time to change the entire landscape, day after day we began to see a green blanket coat the dry fields of corn and cassava and in two weeks all that was Yellow has taken a new color. Also in the news, apart from the Kenya Airways plane that crashed in the area of \u200b\u200bDouala-news that bounced off the windows of the international-news, a couple of other news stories affect the lives of urban Garoua transforming it into a kind of Twin Peaks.
few weeks ago, the bodies of five young people were exposed to the public the mall in front of the police: a sign of strength by the Corps d'Intervention Special (authorized immediate execution) against coupers de route, bandits at night, hiding by the roadside that cut the bush to assault passengers and to plunder everything that they are wearing. A phenomenon that wears the North of Cameroon for a lifetime but which has intensified under the government Biya and now you have chosen to deal with hardline.
The second is a story from Friday is crazy that everyone is talking about and that has become a real syndrome: Garoua rumor that has been infested by vampires and that they have arrested a (And paying 150 francs to the cops see you do it). So, given that the popular imagination travels here and I think the gremlins, it is true that the news was spread by radio and they seem to have seriously stopped a guy who bite people to suck the blood ... I know that you are now much quieter .
The city has experienced another important collective moment on May 1: Labor Day is here very much felt in the morning a long procession allows all those who have a job to pass on the main street in front of fellow citizens and authorities, wagons and posters extolling their luck. Normally, the chief offers lunch to the employees and liters of beer and music Ivorian accompagnano i festeggiamenti fino a notte inoltrata.
Un altro momento di festa, con altro significato e altra celebrazione, l'abbiamo vissuto il 28 Aprile scorso all'inaugurazione del centro di accoglienza per ragazzi di strada denominato SAARE DJABBAAMA. Il centro, che non è un orfanotrofio ma una struttura di passaggio dove i bambini che hanno scelto di tornare in famiglia possono vivere un periodo di transizione, è già funzionale da un anno, ma ancora non c'era stata la pomposa cerimonia. Dopo i discorsi del responsabile della struttura, delle autorità politiche e religiose, i ragazzi hanno fatto sentire la loro voce, prima con la messa in scena di una piccola piece di teatro che rappresentava a typical picture of street life, then by performing a song that we wrote and prepared together, saying among other things: autorités du Cameroun, qui gouvernez du nord au sud, aujourd'hui c'est notre jour, nous sommes les enfants du futur . La preparazione del canto è stata un'occasione per riflettere proprio sull'idea di futuro che per questi ragazzi, abituati a vivere alla giornata, non è spesso contemplata.
Se il programma ragazzi di strada (PEDR) è -ovviamente- un progetto a fondo perso, la Maison des Jeunes, in quanto centro non di intrattenimento ma di animazione e formazione, è una struttura che avrebbe le potenzialità to produce and contribute to the financing of its activities. The problem of mentality, and you can not change it overnight. But the idea is that if a part of the annual budget was invested in productive assets or financing of training courses, focusing on quality and the proposed office is to stop thinking that everything is due and you are standing only because there are International donations or money of a foreign NGO. The context is critical in establishing the approach and objectives of a property and think that a "youth house" in northern Cameroon, where the work is missing and poverty is widespread, it can work as an oratorio or a community center and be standing thanks only to volunteer in my opinion is a serious mistake. Apart from the animation with the smallest ones, which is essential in a place where no aggregation of any proposal for children, provision for children should aim higher and take advantage of the skills required to serve as an association that gives young people the possibilities and not only the ground for a chat. Even my speech with the group "promotion jeunes filles" was therefore aimed. Girls with no education and no job used to passively attend a course in sewing, cooking, dyeing and peri-culture (which they themselves have paid) for two and a half weeks were made to work hard. They have produced bags, backpacks and aprons that this Saturday will be sold in Italy. The proceeds will be tripartite: I will take up the capital that I spent for the tissues, the same group reinvesterà the capital to buy and continue to produce new tissue, a third party to help finance the cost of a mural that will be done by the children of MJC same. For girls, the Italian market is not infinite, but in the meantime have started working on the fabric and not on the rolls of cardboard, they are practicing very slowly and moves into their heads the idea that they have a skill that can bring in something, begin to manage themselves on their own to assess their little capital to invest and why.
Too often stumble into facile syllogisms Africa. Among the most common to consider it a hopeless continent that needs to its macro-MACROPROBLEMS. Maybe it's a convenient excuse for tenercela away. But so long as it is in Africa will continue to knock on our door as a neighbor annoying and intrusive. The Africa I know that I - who does not live by war and natural disasters has long-Africa is in need of education, to enhance their work, advice not to make bad investments, small capital to start a 'activities that must be followed.
makes no sense to put some big baskets of tin with the words "European Union" in the most dirty of Garoua hoping that people will rediscover overnight environmentalist. The baskets will disappear after a few days to be resold in the market in some parts of the area.
makes no sense to build wells in a village where for centuries have done without, without forming a management committee, without making the people involved in the expenditure in their pockets because they feel the weight of the investment and realize the benefits that this round the land has to offer. The first failure will leave the well being of whites and continue to do as they did for centuries.
swallow does not make sense media, money, objects, without the local people able to train on how to use them, how to exploit them. We leave the donations to those who dealing with emergencies, here give to those who have two arms and a head sounds like an insult. It makes sense to promote the GIC (interest groups), the good projects from associations, groups that are self-taxing to have a cash cushion, tontines groups who believe in the emancipation, the work of people who do not cry him but work hard to get out of a situation of deprivation. In Cameroon
sometimes you see two grown men walk together hand in hand. Without shame or malice, is a sign of friendship and trust. Africa does not want (and should not ask) but favors or pity recognition of its value, its powers of his work. He asks to be taken hand in hand, not as an old in difficoltà, ma come un bambino che ha davvero voglia di crescere.
JJ
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