Welcome back to Zambia, Tiziana auntie! So I have accepted the children of Olga's, teachers at the vocational school YCTC, the cashier of Shoprite, a taxi driver Mr. Sakala, the little women who sell vegetables in the "Green Market", the row of artisans rasta Curio Market in Mukuna Park. ..
It 's a good feeling to feel welcomed into the warm embrace of Africa. That is just hot, metaphorically, with its seasonal average of 36/37 degrees
. I'm back here in Livingstone, after a few months in Italy to settle the house and cats, and I came back in full austral winter. You up there to deal with the snow that Italy broke in two, to look astonished that the government falls, it falls no, no that never falls and breaks into a thousand pieces Italy; mulling stressed on the gift list unnecessary but mandatory to do, to use up your creativity in inventing the munu Christmas, but it can not be more of cappelletti in broth and turkey stuffing! Let's see what offers "Italian cuisine" in a timeless alternative stuffed turkey. I here
in undershirt and Panama on the head, open umbrella for shelter from the sun, you've ever seen, by a providential downpour of water that allows you to breathe for a couple of hours, I watch with curiosity the Pre-Christmas life into this part of the world. You know that Christmas is because when you go grocery shopping at Shoprite is a department that sells decorative balls and silver streamers, the clerks have on his hat of Santa Claus 
and the background music is "We 
wish you a merry Christmast "or like" Adeste fideles "version rap. I have not seen a single child to the whims front of a shelf of toys (the singular is a must: There's only one). To put it bluntly: I have seen absolutely no one in front of the shelf of toys. The truck driven by mothers containing bags of maize flour, cabbage, beans, short only what you need for everyday life. 
understand that Christmas is because mangoes have their fruit hanging like balls and decorative garlands are bouganvilee natural. Here there are the millions of bulbs that will hang over his head and give you the feeling of being in the wormhole of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Often there is no electricity and you cook dinner on the camping gas (those lucky like me who own it, if no hole in the ground and wood). Christmas 2010 in Africa: my first Christmas away from home. But what makes you make such a choice? Apart from all considerations more or less taken for granted, from sickness in Africa then you can imagine, I think the spring that brings me to commit myself here is a great confidence in the potential of human beings. Whites, blacks, men, women, children, healthy, sick, rich, poor, everyone has something to say and to give. Some more than others. I am on the side of those who can not speak and write with the intention to provide support to the creation of personal circumstances from which they can take off with its wings. This is also the mission of CeLIM, the Organization Non-Governmental I work with for a long time. More than ten years in fact, that I wander into the rooms of Via San Calimero in Milan, I know the operation and the professionalism of all employees. For about a year later I had the opportunity to see live projects in Milan I was reading the paper, to see firsthand how they were managed by expatriate staff. Enormous efforts, no end of difficulties, disappointments, downsizing of expectations and the end results very well. And expatriates? 
I got compliments on its own since a high proportion of aid workers who work here have been selected by me. I function as a psychologist at the bottom are still good. I told you to tell you that everything could end. Yes, the choices of our government shall ensure that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not fund anything and the European Union is not very accessible. An organizational system as CeLIM, which has the ripe old age of 54 years, may not be able to work anymore. This means that the work done by ant in all this time, which significantly changed the lives of many people and has laid the groundwork for further changes may be lost for future generations. I therefore appeal to you all because this does not happen. Just as a year ago I asked you to help build the garden dedicated to my sister Graziella (BTW: look at that jungle has become!) 
now I ask you a help because CeLIM continue to stand up with all his history, his experience, his knowledge, his professionalism. Check out the site www.celim.it, there you can get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe ongoing projects and realized, there can also find the link for a donation. The extent, transparency and honesty of the organization I guarantee. Word of Tiziana Bertolotti. And it's a wonderful Christmas for all!
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