Manuela Pietraforte and Viola Zangirolami have returned to Ethiopia for the fourth mission of the #lemieradici project, in partnership with Cifa Onlus, Comitato Collaborazione Medica and the Italian Agency for Development and Cooperation.
The project aims to raise awareness among the Ethiopian population about the risks and dangers of irregular immigration to Arab countries.
Several actions are planned for this last mission that will see them engaged until December; below is a first testimony of their work.
At the beginning of October we arrived again in Hayk, the rural village in South Wollo where the CIFA project has been underway for about two years, within which our TSC intervention is conducted.
The heavy rain season is ending, but its last gasps are felt: only for a couple of days has the sun returned to dry the muddy ground while all around us the grass grows tall, nourished by the water that the rain has offered so far.
With pleasure and affection, we found our collaborators and our group of young people who in previous missions were the protagonists of the two theatrical shows produced and disseminated among the populations of the three woredas (provinces) involved in the project.
We immediately started working together by scheduling the various actions planned for this last mission: the creation of a radio drama in 29 one-minute episodes that narrates the events of an irregular migrant and the dissemination of the show What I lost from my Country at the secondary schools of South Wollo.
The radio drama is now ready: soon we will record it in a local radio station with the three young actors who will lend their voices to the protagonists.
The work to refine the show has also concluded: after 4 days of rehearsals, our kids are ready to return to the stage to show students the risks associated with the phenomenon of irregular immigration to the Arab Gulf countries.
