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What is the relationship between aid and progress against world hunger?


Se molte Ong, in particolare Oxfam International, hanno sottolineato come la diminuzione del numero di persone che soffrono la fame nel mondo, non è stata determinata dalle donazioni dei paesi ricchi, ma da altri elementi (come due anni di buoni raccolti e la conseguente diminuzione del costo del cibo), la domanda, su qual'è il rapporto tra soldi donati e progressi nella lotta alla malnutrizione, sorge spontanea. Ha provato a rispondervi il giornalista del Guardian Jonathan Glennie , nella nuova sezione del sito del quotidiano britannico, dedicata allo sviluppo globale (www.guardian.co.uk/global-development).

Glennie divide i paesi in via di sviluppo in due gruppi principali, che rappreseno due tendenze contrastanti. Da un lato ci sono Cina, India, Brasile e gran parte dei paesi dell'America Latina, per i quali la diminuzione delle persone malnutrite è stata determinata dall'aumento generale della ricchezza e da alcune politiche statali, con poca incidenza degli aiuti allo sviluppo che rappresentano una percentuale minima del prodotto interno lordo. Dall'altro lato abbiamo un gruppo di paesi più poveri (concentrati prevalentemente in Africa, qualcuno in Asia e pochi in America Latina), dove invece l'aiuto development, which represents a significant proportion of gross domestic product (in Burundi, the percentage reaches 50%), is necessarily relevant.

But how aid affects? To this question the journalist admits he does not have definite answers: "We should know the specific aspects of the policies of the recipient country and the particular forms of help." Explain that in some cases, the donated money may have undermined the economic balance and local politicians with destructive effects, but when it was well managed has yielded good results and changes in people's lives, with little adverse affect. It all depends on each individual case.
The journalist, finally admits that the division of the two groups is rather arbitrary and that there are several countries in the middle.

We can note that the countries where he lives most of the people who suffer from hunger and poverty around the world, in countries that are not following the stereotypical image, but the most common, in order: the economic giants India and China , Nigeria (rich in oil and the second African country with the highest GDP of the continent, after South Africa), Bangladesh and Indonesia. Below, on an equal footing, Tanzania and Ethiopia.

To see a graphical representation: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/datablog/2010/sep/14/bottom-billion-poverty

Photo: a woman selling rice market in Ghana - L. Jona

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Fishers of men: the dangerous rescues of migrants told by their protagonists

Gainers in the news, especially when there are clashes with Libyan patrol boats for maritime border control. But many of the fishermen in Mazara del Vallo in Sicily - including the crew of the vessel Aries led by Gaspar Brown, were killed yesterday in which the blows of a Libyan patrol boat - received the prize "By Sea" by the High Commissioner UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for rescuing hundreds of migrants in distress, in the crossing of the Mediterranean. Operations in the dangerous rescue of survivors, these fishermen have often replace the Italian coast guard. With no public reimbursement, but only to enforce the law of the sea, which requires the help to those in need. Here are their stories in first person, I have collected for the revised Charter.



FISHERMEN-EROI of Mazara del Vallo
"After having taken them all on board, I loaned the phone to some girls because the victims' families that they were well. They were polite, educated, you could not fleeing hunger, but to find freedom. Just a little bit 'of freedom! "So says Salvatore Cancemi, Twenty Two captain of the trawler fleet of Mazara del Vallo, awarded UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) who did the most heroic act of saving the migrants in Strait of Sicily in 2008. The award "by sea" of the UN, provides a sum of money (10,000 € for the whole crew) to repay the human commitment, but also economical, which offer the fishermen that lend themselves to the rescue. In addition to the tramp vessels meet at sea, in fact there are numerous cases in which the Coast Guard patrol vessels asked to intervene in the rescue of migrants, because of their boats are more spacious and suitable for reloading. Courses risk not to return it, it for the economic losses. "We operate in rescue simply because this is the law of the sea", they say all respondents. But the risk of losing vital revenue, at a time in severe crisis, the fisheries can push others to look the other way. Especially in the era of forced expulsions.



save 300 in a dark and stormy night
Cancemi and his crew have changed the fate of 299 persons on November 27 last year, when at night they were called by the master's port of Lampedusa, a barge with hundreds of migrants was in difficulties. With the dark, the sea state 8 and the smugglers who, fearing arrest, imposed the lights out, had all the characteristics of an enormous tragedy at sea. It took some time and the experience of captain Cancemi to locate the boat in a stormy sea, raggiungerla e avvicinarla alla costa. “Quando le onde portavano la nostra barca giù e la loro su, saltavano a 20-30 insieme, come pirati! E i nostri ad acchiapparli come tonni. Sempre pescatori siamo..”, racconta Cancemi animandosi al ricordo e mimando le azioni. “Alla fine, quando ho visto che nessuno si era perduto o fatto male, l'emozione è stata enorme e la tensione è scoppiata in un grande pianto liberatorio”. Nell'equipaggio si scherzava anche, per tenere alto il morale, come racconta Francesco Cancemi, il capo macchine del peschereccio: “Cercavo di distrarli, soprattutto le ragazze, che erano ancora spaventatissime! Gli abbiamo dato da bere, da mangiare, vestiti e biancheria arrivati al porto di Lampedusa, there was a crowd waiting for us: we were greeted with long applause. "



The obligation to send them back
Lifeboat not always end with joy: "A story that we never told - Cancemi says - is that a boat of Tunisia, met at the border between Libya's territorial waters and those of Tunisia. There were twenty or taking on water. Before rescue them - remember the captain - we felt the maritime authorities. " The authorization is in fact essential to perform a rescue on the sea, the fishermen may otherwise be charged with aiding and abetting illegal, faces up to 24 years in prison, in addition to the loss of economic activity vital to the whole crew. "We were told to take them on board but to return them to a Tunisian patrol boat that was coming to pick them: when they heard of having to return to Tunisia, those guys were very saddened. And we also - Cancemi says - because we knew that they would be beaten and jailed for months. But at the moment to say goodbye thanked us very much: for saving his life. "

A bundle from the sea in storm
There are two images that will remain forever imprinted in the mind of Peter Russo, captain of the fishing boat "Ghibli". The first is that of a bundle that was given out of the boat while a storm raged: "I opened it and found myself in front of children, very small - he says, and his face lights up - he smiled at me and I forgot everything else. He had a great desire to play, after all that darkness and that to stand still, all crammed into that little boat. " That evening, the Ghibli with vessels Monastir and Aries had been called by the Harbour of Lampedusa to rescue a boat at the mercy of rough seas off the island. "We found ourselves faced with a chilling scene: boys 15 to 16 years were in a boat full of people so incredible, eye 300-350, crying and screaming - Russo says - must act quickly because taking on water. With the help of Monastir and air, we have protected from wind loading. Risky operation. E 'in all the confusion, the first to arrive on board, was the bundle. " See

death in the waves
The other image that Russo will never forget was in 2006. Returning from a fishing boat of migrants who had met him for help. The Russian boat was close, but in the rush to board, or perhaps frightened by some dolphins cavorting behind the vessel, the survivors had all moved to one side and the boat capsized. "We found ourselves having to save twenty people who could not swim: it was a matter of moments. The first approach has been to a couple: We caught her husband, but she did not we did and it was abandoned. Then we learned that he had with him a few months that the child had escaped in the ship capsizing. I saw it go down with the long hair that blacks are stretched in the water. We could not throw to save it because there were another 20 people at sea. At the end we brought ashore 21, at 23 - says the captain, still grieving - but she and the baby there was nothing to do. "


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Vito City, Ophel The captain, was on the bridge del suo peschereccio all'alba di un giorno d'inverno del 2007, quando vide all'orizzonte qualcosa che, all'inizio, gli parve una boa: “Ho preso il binocolo e ho visto un braccio che si alzava – dice Cittadino mimando la sorpresa del momento - sono avanzato quei 400 metri cercando di non perderlo di vista. Era un uomo solo su un pezzo di legno, il pavimento di un gommone. Gli ho lanciato un salvagente e poi mi sono proteso per afferrarlo. Cittadino ricorda la paura che gli morisse tra le braccia: “L'ho portato a bordo e gli ho fatto una doccia calda poiché tremava. Dopo 18 ore in mare, aggrappato al pavimento di un gommone, la sua pelle nera era diventata bianca. Aveva perso i sensi, non mangiava, non beveva quasi. Si è ripreso after sleeping 24 hours. He told us that they had started from Tripoli in 47: Mauritanian and many Iraqis, all very young, he already had more than just 24 years. They were all dead. "

Photo: Ludovic Jona

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donated patrol boats from Italy to Libya. Today firing on fishermen in Sicily last year and confiscated them. Reportage from Mazara del Vallo

's making the news headlines of a Libyan patrol boat carrying members of the Italian financial police who yesterday fired on a vessel of Mazara del Vallo guilty for not having stopped immediately by the altar intimatogli 'military boat. But the aggressive attitude of the Libyan security forces against the Italian fishermen, indirectly supported by the increasingly close relations between the two countries, it is not something new. Below is an article of mine published in the weekly paper exactly a year ago. Also suggests that as the reason for the dispute is a different interpretation of the law of the sea.



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If it was not a provocation of the President of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, certainly a curious twist of fate. Just recently donated patrol boats from Italy to the Libyan navy to patrol its coastline in order to combat illegal immigration in our country, have been used to seize, from 22 July to 4 August 2009, the trawler fleet of Mazara del Monastir Vallo led by Nicola Asaro, already awarded by the High United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for having saved several times boats of migrants in distress in the Strait of Sicily. An operation, done under threat of confiscation of fishing vessels in the future we ventured into the strip of sea of \u200b\u200b74 miles around Libya and came on the eve of August 30, the day of 'friendship between Italy and Libya. "

"That border goes against international law that establishes the limit to 12 miles of territorial waters of each country - tell fishermen Mazara - Gaddafi, in a decree of 2005 has assumed the right to define Libyan another 60 miles of international waters rich in fish. But the worst is that the Italian government and our Coast Guard shall endeavor to enforce the rules set by the Libyan dictator unilaterally. " Indeed, the site of the Italian navy reads: By decree 37/2005 of 24 February 2005, Libya has declared a protection zone that extends from the fishing 62 miles from the outer limit of territorial waters (12 miles) and in which jurisdiction is exercised to prohibit, unless authorized by the competent authority, all fishing activities. Annexed to the decree is the "Declaration of a Libyan Fisheries Protection Zone in the Mediterranean" which serves to designate, as the legal basis of the initiative, the Protocol of 1995 relating to the Barcelona Mediterranean areas, especially protected, and several agreements between the FAO in marine conservation.



But the attacks and kidnappings against the Italian vessels date back to well before 2005. Vincenzo Pellegrino, captain of the trawler "Queen" (awarded by the UNHCR for a bailout in 2008), recalls the horror of three months detention in a prison in Tripoli in 1979: "I was in a room with 22 people and 5 sq.m. with a poor meal a day. " Subsequently there have been cases in which the vessels themselves were never returned, causing a huge loss for the owners. In 2000 the Libyan soldiers have even caused the death of a fishing boat crew Orchid, entering and causing a fire in the boat which was fishing 30 miles from the North African coast. In the recent case of kidnapping where the victim was fishing boat Monastir and Tulip, the crews were 18 days in port, avoiding prison, but Asaro - captain of Monastir - recalls with pain, the air of a mockery of a Libyan military months ago, got on his boat recalling the episode of 2000. In addition, the seizure of a month of fish and networks is a huge damage to the vessels: the sum of € 30,000 spent fuel, the value of € 60 to 70,000 and 20,000 of the 4 fishing nets, well over 100,000 €. But the fishermen do not intend to give up Mazara: "Fishing in the sea that we need - Peter Russo says the captain - a fleet of 200 vessels such as that of Mazara del Vallo But can not stay in the shallow waters south of Lampedusa. 74 miles of territorial waters, instead of 12 for all other countries too. " Bishop Domenico Mogavero, Bishop of Mazara del Vallo ruled on the case called for a European interest, but need at least considering that the Italian Government, that the disputed sea area, you can establish rules.

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Reportage from the funeral of Angelo Vassallo, mayor of Lampedusa



When the funeral of Angelo Vassallo starts, the already dark sky begin to fall large drops of rain on the hundreds of people waiting. The small port of Acciaroli is nestled between the village of stone and the beautiful clear water, now dark and choppy. The Bishop's words seem to bring relief to cold and gloomy atmosphere, despite the 11 in the morning. Indicates materialism "the cause of unhappiness and quell'arroganza that turn into violence in some poor people." Receives applause when he said "the violence makes it impossible for our life together, making it uninhabitable and unhappy." But the clamor of clapping explodes uncontrollably, when he exclaims, referring to the killers of Vassallo: "I just hope that these beasts are not among us. Or on the couch watching television!" Then reaffirms confidence in the population of these lands and their commitment to the territory '. It is at that moment that I listen to a group of women, the wind ruffles your hair and the bitter comment: "Words, words, words. For twenty years, only words. "They wear, like many teenagers and children here, in a white shirt with blue writing" You'll always be our Angel. "

A young teacher of San Giovanni a Piro Pollica a neighboring country, it illuminates a moment, telling that in her school today and work a lot on environmental law. Courses for which he had fought for 15 years, the mayor killed. When asked if he now fears for the future of these ideas, look at me with tears in his eyes: "Ora si, a questo punto ho paura".

Uomini in divisa a reggere gli stendardi dei comuni di Caserta e Subiaco, ma anche di Gubbio e di Greve in Chianti, sono ordinatamente schierati attorno al palco da cui si celebra la messa. Guardano al mare cupo, minaccioso anche dentro il porto. Più in là, accanto al profilo della cattedrale si staglia una gigantografia di Angelo Vassallo: si trova probabimente proprio in questo porto in una luminosa giornata di sole che rende il mare di un azzurro brillante. Celebrava le acque cristalline di Acciaroli, che oggi fremono e mugghiano. Mentre la cerimonia va avanti la pioggia si intensifica, si aprono centinaia di ombrelli e parla il vicesindaco: la voce sempre most broken, as they remember the slain, in the reality of daily episodes. He says: "All those here should know that today they did something that they will never forget. Today they have promised to commit Angelo. Now you have promised the mayor of all not to forget. I'm here to all those who I ask for a commitment: to what Angelo did for our town you do it all. "

All have balconies overlooking the crowded square. Like any enclosed space on the port . Pollica Some of elegant ladies, they are close to the tent to protect one of the bars. "There are many people that comes from outside - they say - people like us, we are all people who wanted to be there. Those institutions do not, those are here for the picture. "I ask them what will happen now:" I do not know. He had an extraordinary staff, but without a charismatic figure like hers, who knows. We need someone like him, able to put together the coalition and energy. "

Stuck in a tree near a public fountain in the crank opens and closes like it belonged to a private house, c 'is a sign: "Drink tap water: good, safe, affordable - City of Thumb". A little farther on a huge crate plastic bottles of mineral water. Bring civil defense for his ceremony.

Photo: Ludovic Jona

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Inizio attività 2010/11

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Ecco il programma dei nostri corsi per la stagione 2010/11:

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trovate tutte le informazioni dettagliate nel post precedente qui sotto.

Scuole Medie e Prima Superiore (1996 to 1999):
The course will officially begin Monday 20 / 9 , with the lessons Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 17 to 18 at the athletics track of the sports center G. Scirea " Via Buonarroti
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Third, fourth and fifth grade (2000 to 2002):
The course will begin Tuesday 21 / 9 with classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 17 to 18 (meeting from 16, 45) at the athletics track of the sports center G. Scirea "Via Buonarroti. Alternatively, it is possible to attend anche un solo giorno alla settimana, con costi differenziati.

Ultimo Anno di Asilo, Prima e Seconda Elementare (dal 2003 al 2005):
Il corso inizierà Martedì 21/9 , con lezioni il martedì e giovedì dalle 17 alle 18 (ritrovo dalle 16,45) presso la palestra della scuola media di piazza Unità d'Italia . A scelta è possibile frequentare anche un solo giorno alla settimana, con costi differenziati.
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Per tutti i corsi, diamo la possibilità di frequentare un paio di lezioni di prova senza impegno , prima di iscriversi, per verificare il reale interesse dei ragazzi verso la nostra attività. .

Per qualsiasi informazione e per le iscrizioni siamo a disposizione a partire da oggi, Lunedì 6/9 , presso la pista di atletica del centro sportivo "G. Scirea" di via Buonarroti, dal lunedì al venerdì, dalle 18 alle 19 .
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Organizziamo anche il corso di ginnastica per adulti , come per gli anni scorsi, presso la palestra della scuola media di Piazza Unità d'Italia , il martedì and Thursday in two rounds, the first from 18 to 19 and the second from 19 to 20 . Information and registration directly to the gym at the beginning of the course, which will be Tuesday 28 / 9 .
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