Friday, March 4, 2011

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Mozambique

MOZAMBIQUE
The AFRICA AND 'NEW , E' NEW
Maputo, February 2011. It 'lasted less than a year of the campaign "CTA for Africa" \u200b\u200b for the collection of five per thousand for the purchase of an SUV to be donated to the school of vocational training "Estrela do Mar" Inhassoro in Mozambique. In March 2010, during the conference organized in Milan, was presented to the ACLI an outreach project, in April 2010 in Rome, Carroccio room in the Capitol, the President launched the National Campaign "CTA for Africa"; from April to June 2010 two jeeps made available from the Tata car, having run from north to south Italy to meet in the streets, and in institutional circles ACLI, people and institutions, the press and associations, to talk about Mozambique, solidarity and cooperation, thus implementing a magnificent experience of integration and membership giving value to the content of responsible tourism and solidarity. In February 2010, almost a year later, all defined with the Embassy of Mozambique, the delegation of the CTA, formed by the National President Pino Vitale, Vice Chairman Matthew Altavilla and President of the National Committee Philip Pugliese he left for the mission in Mozambique.
waiting for Maputo airport is Michele Lepore, responsible Ipsia of Vercelli and organizer of the whole operation. Tata is in the parking lot, new, bright-red and burgundy with stickers of the CTA, IPS and the ACLI visible and dominant. The jeep was purchased in Mozambique, thus avoiding all the red tape, and will be delivered to the school "Estrela do Mar" of Inhassoro: our final destination. Finally
in Africa, aboard the jeep. The enthusiasm is such that it produces a redundant mobile text message to friends in Italy: The CTA has arrived in Africa, we are the legend, Africa is the story. I wonder what reactions will take earnest Pollution! But, you know, is the son of enthusiasm generates excitement and pleasure.
Less exciting are the thirty-two degrees and the road to get to Maputo. The road is the very soul of a country in Africa as in India, Middle and Far East, it takes place on the meeting and exchange, trade, looking for something or someone, deception and spying The show or hide. The street is full of potholes in asphalt and red clay at the margins, crowded shacks of corrugated iron in the many colors of dilapidated shops which advertise many parts Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, building material, pottery and bathrooms, Coke, Vodacom, Colgate Palmolive and so you can imagine in a glamorous and eccentric uninterrupted naive: it is Mama Africa! The voice is that of illegal vendors, unauthorized, improvised, with many stalls pineapple, peanuts, mango, papaya, bananas, coconuts, potatoes, and so this generous land can give.
LHD, the traffic flows with Japanese cars and coaches to represent, taxi yellow-blacks, off of many NGOs operating in the country. As they approached the city center and administrative capital Maputo will show more: wide streets, surrounded by acacias and giacaranda, ordered shops, pubs and cafes. Via K. Marx, via F. Castro, Viale June 25, via Ho Ci Min, via Lenin, Mao Tze Dong street, street Cabral, via Lumumba: un gioco toponomastico che richiama la storia della lotta armata di liberazione del Fruente di Liberation del Mozambique di ispirazione marxista-leninista fino al congresso del 1989. Tuttora al governo del paese, grazie alla maggioranza parlamentare ottenuta in un sistema multipartitico, il FRELIMO presidia i quartieri della città con l'inconfondibile bandiera rossa e, per molta gente, le sue sezioni costituiscono un punto di riferimento e di partecipazione popolare. Maputo, un milione di abitanti, capitale della Repubblica Popolare del Mozambico (diciotto milioni di abitanti), sede di ministeri, di ambasciate e di organizzazioni non governative, ha larghi viali, un bellissimo lungomare, e larghe spiagge, un porto attivo, e una bella baia dove solcano "concave navi dalle vele nere".
Banche, hotel a tre a quattro a cinque stelle, ristoranti e birrerie, discoteche e musei, chiese e moschee, una fortezza e una cattedrale, teatro e cinema, università, campi di golf e di tennis, palestra e centro ippico. Insomma ha quanto occorre per fare di una città la capitale di un paese.
L'incontro con l'Ambasciatore d'Italia in Mozambico Dott. Carlo Lo Cascio è quanto di più cordiale e istruttivo possa esserci. Elegante, formale, squisito nella conversazione, ci riceve nel suo studio, ci informa dello stato del Paese e si informa della nostra missione. Conosce la scuola "Estrela do Mar" e ne condivide l'impostazione; apprezza ciò che le Acli hanno fatto e si congratula per la donazione del CTA. "In ambasciata si è sempre operativi - dice – per risolvere i problemi dei connazionali. E' costante il collegamento con la comunità dei 1500 italiani residenti e il rapporto con i nativi è basato su reciprocità e rispetto. Molto presenti le Organizzazioni non Governative, di diversa emanazione religiosa e laica, che assicurano un'apprezzata opera di sussidarietà. Il Mozambico - continua l'ambasciatore – è molto visitato dai sudafricani. Vengono nelle località più belle del paese, ma lasciano poco all'economia del posto perché si portano anche l'acqua. È soprattutto nel nord che sono numerosi i sudafricani".
In 1996 an agreement with N. Mandela allowed the establishment of thousands of African farmers of European origin. Decision much contrast, however, allowed to restore the ancient trade flows between Johannesburg and Maputo, to revive the local economy devastated by civil war that lasted 16 years and suffers from agriculture dismantled, with most mine-infested fields, impoverished by famine due to drought and floods, with livestock reduced to zero. Much of the country today is based on relations with the new South Africa: Airlines converge on Johannesburg, the electricity produced from Lake Cahora Bassa on the Zambezi, is sold to South Africa, the only existing road linking Maputo Cape Town, Pretoria is the only satellite station that radiates telecommunications, navigation part from Maputo to Cape Town to take the international shipping routes, to be the only train in Cape Town, South Africa go to the new migration. In short, there are many threads that bind South Africa and Mozambique is to be hoped that the rich South Africans do not consider Mozambique as its garden. Wildlife, pristine beaches, great lobsters, relative peace, good resorts, nature reserves and islands, coral reefs and abundant wildlife, are excellent tourist attractions, in the aftermath of civil war, are in full use, and recall many South African families.
The development of tourism there is described the meeting with the Directorate General of Tourism Ministerio do. To welcome you and Dr. Ana Paula Chaùque Chef de Departamento Tourism with the whole staff of technical experts and officials. Is presented to the Development Plan of the Tourism Sector that "identifies specific priorities and defines the quality and quantity of human resources: education, conservation, hotelera, administration, restoration of the key areas of tourism development." It is a strategic view of tourism based on natural attractions, environmental and cultural, now welcome more than four million tourists a year and are intended to stabilize by 2025, with national and regional public and private, with national and international investors.
solidarity with this global vision of the rational plan, we put on the table of the Directorate General of a social and sustainable tourism project to be implemented in Mozambique through our network of 112 regional offices in Italy and 35,000 members. The hotel facilities are equal to a demand for quality, air links with the tourist attractions are efficient, parks and nature reserves Ngorongosa Bazaruto and attractions are of value, the beaches are very beautiful, the hospitality and welcoming well-maintained, the food is great for the fish, the seasons are feasible. Single gap are the road conditions and limited opportunity for coaches and Italian speaking guides.
interest, and not recently, officials of the Ministry of the CTA project because for them, accustomed to an individual tourism, this is the first experience of group tourism.
An experiment to be carried out in a good resort Inhanbane managed by local people, using local services and opportunities to interact with the locals, so as to contribute to the local economy, who makes trips to Bazaruto Archipelago, at the Park of Ngorongosa, the Cahora Bassa dam. So much interest that the Director-General stands ready to organize an educational CTA operators to be implemented in ways and times to be agreed, and to promote exchange and twinning initiatives. Ideas and opportunities to take home and put into the project to follow up to the expectations aroused each other. Meanwhile, the wider availability remain the attention received by the delegation.
Mozambique receives us, Africa is welcoming us.
welcomes us with a sky spotted with clouds above the distant short bursts of time, which opens in sudden bursts of hot sun, so it is not clear whether the serve colorful umbrellas to shelter from rain or sun. But in Africa the trees are umbrellas, large and fluffy. The end of season Africa rain makes green and lush, unusual for those who have always imagined dry and sunburnt. Extensive plantations of coconut palms take us to the great plains of the Limpopo River, the spirit of place here gives us one of the beautiful African sunset when the sun lingers with its rays in leaving the land which, in turn, seems to hold dressing warm colors in a palette that breaks from red to pink to burgundy to rust, yellow and orange. What a land! Fredric Amiel in his diary saying "Any landscape is a state of mind." He was right, the mood here is one that opens the humanity of this earth. You see when it is night, beyond the edges of the road, collect in glades and clearings, with huts without electricity or water, where images from four families squeezed into the dark walls and smoke with a wretched dinner cooked with charcoal. Still see the day when walking by the roadside, out of a straw hut or sheet that is hidden behind a row of banana and palm trees, climb rough tarmac and take a walk. You see even in school children with school uniform, shirt, skirt or trousers, socks pulled on black shoes. You see women with baskets, bundles of twigs or the bucket on his head. They come and go, come and go. Africa is as follows: "a continent on the move, which gives the overwhelming sense of purpose, even if it is di uno scopo elementare: raggiungere un pozzo, una scuola, un mercato" (Pietro Veronesi). Dove va l'Africa, cosa vogliono raggiungere il Mozambico, la Tanzania, lo Zimbabwe, lo Zambia, il Sudafrica e tutti gli altri paesi dell'Africa australe? Vogliono raggiungere la loro identità costruendo con l'autodeterminazione la loro storia. Occorre tempo, noi abbiamo costruito la nostra identità in 150 anni, loro l'hanno raggiunta da soli trent'anni. Diamo tempo, senza dimenticare che proprio da queste parti, nelle gole dell' Olduvai in Tanzania, l'uomo si incamminò 1.300.000 anni fa per le vie del mondo. Diamo una mano a costruire conoscenza, competenza, professionalità, in modo che i resort, gli alberghi, le banche, il mercato, le comunicazioni, gli aeroporti, le infrastrutture, e quant'altro fa ricchezza sia regolato e gestito dalla loro capacità.
Questo è il vero obbiettivo al quale vogliono contribuire le Acli con la scuola "Estrela do Mar" di Inhassoro cui è stato consegnato il fuoristrada. Escola Industrial e Commercial, 27 aule e laboratori, mensa, aule docenti e uffici, campo sportivo; docenti e amministrativi del posto. Corsi di carpenteria, falegnameria, elettricista, modista, meccanica, informatica, cucina e bar, ricevimento, contabilità. Corsi triennali, iscrizione gratuita al primo anno, 50 meticais al mese (1,16 euro al mese) al secondo anno, e 100 meticais il third year (or € 2:32 per month). It comes with a qualification to be spent in the top-level job market for a salary above the minimum monthly wage of $ 80. Students are 600 male and female, all in uniform - so imposing the Ministry dell'Educacao - here is green pants, yellow shirt and green tie.
born instant empathy with these guys when, like a large yellow-green stain that spreads are in the school yard to greet us. It takes balls brought the school to stimulate their desire to soccer throughout South Africa. The only thing missing some vuvuzela. Just sing the reason for Minnie the Moocher by Cab Calloway singing "Hidehidehidehi (hidehide hidehi) Hodehodehodeho (Hodehodehodeho) "to hear their echoes in the innate ability of rhythm. Here Africa is new, is new! Is in the hands of these children in their learning in their eyes looking at the future, in their walk reach the well, the knowledge, the market.
Mission accomplished. But Mozambique still retains some charm. We walk back along the road to Villanculo, that if the city wants to have more tourism with the Italians should change its name. But there you are. The way of going is the same - the only one - but if you try to imagine it in black and white before your eyes seem to slide photographs of Sebastiao Salgado great that, strictly black and white, photographed the humanity of Mozambique during the civil war of the seventies. Casa Real at the resort on the sea, you see a beautiful moonlight that seems an oil on canvas ... and lobsters have all the flavor of the Indian Ocean. When day is done, we discover the charm of the wide, white beach that stretches along the coastline long, full of vegetation, with sparse boats, consumed by the effort of fishermen, are draped on the side and left there to wait for the tide alive floating face again. Here and there carpets of shells and coral shimmer in the sun and give iridescent pearl-old stories that reverberate with African and Indian Ocean. They said that a route from here slave to the slaves who came from the inner areas, capture, and were boarded on ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope, went to North and Central America. They remember well that today, somewhere in the Mediterranean, similar boats are used for a new human commerce. On the beach come to mind Stevenson, Melville, Homer, D'Annunzio, Moravia Walking in African writing "the bay is very wide, with the white beach, palm trees, green and ocean blue bends down to the far horizon , tapering gradually into a single line filmy and indistinct. Where the sky seems to be confused with the sea, the silhouette of a remote ship, perhaps an oil tanker, is suspended in the morning light. Non c'è nessuno a perdita d'occhio; la solitudine si accorda meravigliosamente con la calma del mare; tutto il paesaggio pare stupito di esserci, come se fosse il primo giorno della creazione". Si riferiva Moravia a una spiaggia del Gabon, ma sembrano pennellate in Mozambico.
Da una spiaggia del tropico del capricorno passiamo alle lanterne cinesi! Ma non siamo in Cina, restiamo sempre a Villanculo. All'aeroporto appare, tra due grandi lanterne rosse, scritto in portoghese e ribadito con vistosi ideogrammi cinesi, il tabellone di ingresso "Aeropuerto Civil de Villanculo". Stuttura modernissima in metallo e vetro, in fase di ultimazione, ad opera di tecnici cinesi. Lungo il viale di ingresso trattoristi cinesi per gli ultimi sterramenti, elettricisti Chinese for the latest attacks, Chinese laborers for the finishing touches on the walls, each surrounded by two or three African workers who take orders from the Chinese to clean, hoes, move the ladder. The scene speaks for itself, is to be hoped that the new bosses have arrived. Comes to mind the analysis of F. Grappling on the sinicization of the Dark Continent where he describes the penetration of China in Africa: "Chinese hands stretch Africa .. Beijing grabs strategic access to oil, mineral resources and metal-bearing .. wins ... it is on the hunt of vast agricultural estates to be purchased in Africa to transform them into barns exclusive reserved for the Chinese people ... They are the largest manufacturers of infrastructure. " Just like the airport Villanculo and deforestation of Mozambique Northern entrusted to Chinese enterprises.
To the west is a challenge with China to find investment projects competitive, rather than soothe the conscience with a bit 'donations to the Community, for Africa is the best time to take advantage of this vision with competition between foreign investors, relying on its economy, reforms and the protection of rights, rather than rely on foreign aid.
leave Mozambique to return soon, with the operators of the CTA and with a responsible tourism initiative, let Africa's lush green, who knows rainbow of hope and not the Africa of Hemingway's "le Snows of Kilimanjaro "that smacks of colonialism and safari.

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