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Dedicated to Nadine Gordimer: Writing and commitment

Combining the splendor of the word and the harshness of reality. Telling: driven from within, burning desire to change, but never without being overwhelmed. This is for me is the model, the ideal of writing, I find in novels, short stories and essays of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, Nadine Gordimer. It will be the theme of the meeting and confrontation between whites and blacks during apartheid, masterfully told by his pen, which is never predictable and never boring because narra lasciando che a parlare siano i più profondi impeti, le più nascoste pieghe dell'anima umana. Per questo la sua lettura più di quella di chiunque altro, oggi mi appassiona e consola. Proprio perchè il suo "impegno", non è mai cieco, idealizzante o demonizzante. Ecco alcune sue riflessioni sul tema, che copio dalla raccolta di suoi saggi "Vivere nella speranza e nella storia. Note dal nostro secolo".

"La moralità della narrativa consiste nel prendersi la libertà di esplorare ed esaminare con impavida onestà la morale contemporanea, compresi sistemi morali quali le religioni.

Quando mai gli scrittori hanno potuto eludere la politica, apertamente o implicitamente?
Perhaps the time when slaves and peasants lived in misery, while the sculptors were looking for the perfect proportions of the human body? The period in which the revolutionaries were detained in the prisons of the Tsar and the Grand Dukes Alessantro buildings were built in Nice? The period in which to hungry and unemployed were offered the salvation of a growing fascism while the playboy and the girls danced on the edge holding glasses of pink champagne?
It seems that there is no way to escape that relationship .

Not all writers who weave a relationship with the political bartering the imagination with the hair shirt of a party hack. There is also the case the writer whose imaginative faculty are truly awakened and called into question by the spirit of politics as he experiences it firsthand . It may not be the free choice of Byron. It can be something which is virtually impossible to escape in time and place of social earthquakes.

The role played by literature in enlightening our people, open up their lives in the power and beauty of imagination, he revealed himself through the writer as the depository of its ethos.
E 'of this revelation that they are afraid schemes.

.. but writers, artists of all kinds, are there to split deposits produced by custom and open a gap between the bars that hold captive the sensitivity exist to allow the imagination free to tick as the lush grass in the meadows. "

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A leg crippled by polio did not stop his desire for justice. And Kuhu Das, work and family has left to found the Association of Women With Disabilities and employment of disabled girls in the slums of India. support in our struggle for their rights, against physical barriers but also mentally.

"I can start the interview with a song?" Before you get a response, Kuhu Das creates a sweet and melancholy song eastern sporting a beautiful female voice. Then he stops and returns to the usual resolute tone: "Want to know what the words mean? Here:" I do not get treatment, do not get respect, I have no dignity, I have a terrible life. " This is what the song says. " And this is the situation of disabled women in India, tells us how the young director dell'Awwd (Association of Women With Disabilities).

abuse and exclusion
"Disabled women in India suffer in silence a violence that goes by the lack of care and the deprivation of the right to education, to real physical and psychological abuse and proper. This happens from the family, to the reception centers, "he said, stressing that the problem tends to be ignored even by organizations that deal with human rights." Not at conferences on women's rights, or in meetings for the protection of disabled if they want to talk. So, I must always speak out! "With big bright eyes and a ready sense of humor, Kuhu has come, in spite of the leg crippled by polio, more road than his young face would believe. Beginning with the creation of one of the first associations for the protection of disabled women in India, the first in which the shareholders and 60 -70 percent of the staff is made up of girls with disabilities.

"I can not walk without crutches because of polio, which I had in three years. Growing up with this disability, I faced many obstacles in my life," says Kuhu explaining the path that led her to found and direct the Awwd. "The first challenge came from his relatives and family friends. Many of them said to my mother that he must have done something wrong in his past life, for being punished with a disabled child." Kuhu says that despite criticism, the mother was very strong, sustainable way to school and complete his education. So Kuhu graduated, took a master's degree in mass communication and began working in the field of empowerment women in India. "But women's organizations, it never worked for the rights of disabled people and asked them to take care when told to do it myself," he says. "It was a challenge for me, but I've decided. I quit my job, my family and I founded this association."


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In mid 2002, so did the Awwd, the first Indian association which takes care of women with disabilities involving some of the beneficiaries in work support and social integration and employment of other girls. A huge challenge in a country where, as Kuhu complaint, "the 40 million disabled women are twice as many victims of aggression and violence, than normal cells, but are also the least protected and assisted. "And where" forced sterilization is a risk of all women with disabilities, especially mentally. "" In general in Central Asia - said Kuhu - woman's role is to marry and have children, but if you are disabled you will not be a good mother, a good housewife. If you have a deformity, you're beautiful. So no one will marry you. And no one considers you a complete woman .

Awwd The director goes on to describe the situation that daily fights his association: "The girls with disabilities are already very oppressed in their families: no one thinks they should have the opportunity to study, on each investment of them is considered a waste of money. Are left at home and that's it. They are told over and over that people are useless, so who are beginning to be convinced themselves. Dell'Awwd fundamental aspect of the work, which currently operates in 15 areas of the country, benefiting about 5,000 girls, is therefore a priority: "To make them understand, that no person is useless, everyone is a human being and has the potential to be used at most, you should be ashamed of their disability. This will lead girls to have a dialogue with the rest of society, to demand the respect and consideration they deserve. "

restore confidence
" When we start to work in a new area, we sit down and discuss with women looking for a long time to pull out their anger, the abuse, but also the desires that have never been able to express. "Then the association seeks to support individual projects with material resources, such as wheelchairs and computers, and training courses. "But the path of awareness is not easy nor fast - Kuhu says - is a work on the girls but also about their family that lasts 2-3 years . It 'difficult, especially in the slums with a Muslim majority, where the community has more traditional ideas. "This group are created:" So the girls can support each other, express their suffering and understand the loro diritti, per poter rispondere agli abusi, fisici e psicologici di cui sono vittime". Le attività lavorative in cui le ragazze, vengono inserite sono soprattutto lavori di cucito e piccole attività commerciali. "Quando iniziano a guadagnare dei soldi, nelle famiglie cominciano a rispettarle di più".

"Abbiamo molte storie di successo! " Esclama Kuhu, mostrando le foto di alcune delle sue ragazze, raccolte in un calendario nella sede di Pangea Onlus , la ong italiana che sostiene alcuni progetti di Awwd. "Presto ho capito che nell'associazione non potevo fare tutto da sola, avevamo bisogno di varie altre leader come me. Così abbiamo formato alcune delle ragazze che erano state beneficiarie empowerment groups, the leadership of new groups. "This role has not found obstacles in the lack of mobility or views of some women staff Awwd. " Tabassum is blind but has become a very courageous leader "," Soni , which has a physical disability, he reasoned that Ayesha is blind, "" She was badly abused, but failed to react "," Banya has created a small business producing incense sticks ".. And then there are Nisha as those who had never gone to school because of his physical disability, but after getting training for the opening of a business has become a small entrepreneur who is a trainer and promoter group empowerment. Now he considers "a businesswoman and an employer." Economic independence is essential, Kuhu says: "Now the whole community is careful to talk to these girls."

also published in the journal Vps (Volunteer Development): www.volontariperlosviluppo.it

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CHRISTMAS IN TENT (Afghan refugees to Ostiense station)



(photo by Valeria Galletti)

This is an article I wrote for a newspaper in the free press most common, with the intent (though a bit 'too ambitious) to "make at least a little' pressure 'because the competent authorities, turning our thoughts to the matter. Is not new, I know. Afghans encamped Ostiense talking for months, years. And they continue to arrive, and after travel unimaginable, to resist cold and uncomfortable. The news has not gone up that newspaper, too blocked in this time of Christmas advertising. The public here now, dedicated to the activities of the association which continues to deal with this flow of young East - our only detection of a war fought far from here - during the long periods between the peaks of media attention.

"They come with fever, dermatitis, respiratory diseases and we give antibiotics which provides us with Caritas, but how can they recover if they continue to sleep outdoors, with this cold?" Alberto e Chiara sono volontari dell'Associazione Medu (Medici per i diritti umani), che da anni assiste i rifugiati dell'Afghanistan che giungono alla stazione Ostiense, snodo fondamentale per i giovani in fuga da quel paese martoriato dal conflitto. Punto di riferimento della migrazione, ma anche e sempre di più, luogo di accampamento, a causa della carenza di strutture pubbliche dedicate all'accoglienza di richiedenti asilo a Roma. Un dramma, quando arriva il gelo di questi giorni. E di queste notti.

Una soluzione per alcuni di loro, è stata trovata dal Comune di Roma, nel Centro di accoglienza per richiedenti asilo (Cara) di Castelnuovo di Porto dove, in seguito alla pressione del Medu e di altre organizzazioni impegnate alongside the Afghan refugees on 12 November have been moved hundreds of "inhabitants" dell'Ostiense. But many stayed outside and continued to sleep in tents made from nylon, about twenty, whose summer colors clash with the landscape yards and puddles of ice surrounding the rail terminal. "Wednesday morning when we opened our mobile clinic, 80 people came," said Alberto Barbieri, general coordinator of the medu, indicating that as the number of Afghans still camped near the Ostiense station. "We demand that can be incorporated in a closed place, too," appeals. The request of the medu and other associations who have followed the Afghans, Laboratorio53 as Yo and migrate, and to be offered to young refugees places still available at the center of Castelnuovo di Porto, currently run by the Red Cross. "At least during the cold period of the emergency until January-February."

"In the future we ask that you can create a service center and hosting, right here in Ostiense," Barbieri said, stressing that the flow of children fleeing the war is continuing. "We ask also for the inhabitants of the neighborhood," said Barbieri, the goal of establishing itself as the host and also avoid degradation and promote coexistence. Currently, the district did not deny solidarity: "Poor souls, come I have to take the boxes, "said a newsagent nearby. While the bowling club, has offered its premises for overseeing health and care of medu." But - says Alberto - this situation can not last long. "

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's Christmas Navtej (1 year after the aggression of Neptune)

had come from a far country, and when he lost precarious employment found himself alone, homeless. One day in mid-winter's three boys have pulled gasoline and lit the fire. Many will remember the story of Navtej Singh Sidhe, the 'Indian burned "in the station of Neptune, on January 31 last year. It was believed that he would survive, but doctors have struggled with him and then watched for months. Now he's back in the winter and Navtej can say that there made it. Only to survive but, because his legs can no longer be said that at least for a few months and must remain in a wheelchair. But now he has to leave the rehab facility that hosted Telese Terme in these months. The 24 or December 25 are the days when his resignation is expected. On a sobering and perhaps save this boy of 35 years. Perhaps no one has the courage to bring it back on the street, that day. Maybe. Why the generosity expressed by the institutions in the days of media attention has so far remained words. The mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno, the mayor of Neptune and Alessio Key, assured him a home, while Senate President Renato Schifani, had promised him a job. "But nothing has arrived, and we do not know what to do when he will be released from the hospital," the complaint Balray Singh, representative of the community 'Sikh of Rome and a member of the council's religious capital, which took the Indian Embassy in charge follow the health and legal affairs of Navtej on behalf of his family. "We kept asking what was promised, but no answers - he adds - especially alderman Social Services of Neptune, Domenico Cianfriglia, which continues to reassure us, but so far there has only words." As for work, Singh said that "now can only do a quiet job, enabling him to sit ", and calls back to the solidarity of the institutions or persons. But the most urgent, is housing. Singh recounts the trial of the three boys, who followed: it was given the first sentence of 5 years, the youngest, who has confessed, while the two adults there will be a hearing in the coming days. But concern remains high for the racism to which they are continually subject of his country, agricultural workers in areas of Anzio , Aprilia and Lavinio: "What happens more often - he says - is that when the evening come home by bike, some guys in the car, stop opening the doors and push them to the ground. "The kids sometimes hurt as a result of such attacks, which occur at least twice a month, though they usually do not report because they are afraid to go to the police, if you do not have the documents. "

also appeared on Rome today Epolis