Sunday, December 26, 2010

Cxan I Masturebate With Vaseline

Dad, you want to do a marathon with me?



One day a son tells his father: "Dad, you want to do a marathon with me?" And the father says: "Yes." Both ran their first marathon. Once again, the son asks, "Dad, you want to do a marathon with me?" and the father said "Yes, my son." One day, the son asks his father: "Dad, you want to do the Ironman with me? "(The Ironman triathlon is the most difficult there: 4 km swim, 180 km bike and 42 km running) and the father said" Yes. "The story seems simple. Until you look at these pictures ...

One of the most moving and exciting videos on the web.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Cell Respiration And Cricket Lab

Merry Christmas and lose weight

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

What Are The Color For 40th Party





Many run to stay fit, many others to lose weight and reach the ideal weight. The race can do that too, help you stay in shape and lose weight of course for that to happen we must have patience and have adequate food; you can not think of weight loss and continue to overeat because we made a run, the calories consumed half an hour of racing are easy to take, especially if we take "junk food" (junk food) with high calorific value and low nutritional value .

What I show in this video is the story of a boy of 20 years who has done it, managed to lose 55 pounds and run a marathon.
Ben was a 20 year old obese, then started to run.
His story is going around the world. A year and a half ago he weighed 55 pounds heavier and almost never left the house anymore. Then he wore a suit and decided to change his life. That
Ben Davis is a success story end. One of those who can not resist. Ben was an obese. And all those extra pounds, twenty years, they weigh more. Almost never left the house, had no friends, was depressed. Then something clicked inside of him and 25 December 2008 he started to run.
First slowly, very slowly. Then the feeling of regaining possession of his body has taken over. The few meters briskly become a marathon. A year and a half after Ben is another person: 55 kilos lighter, a video documenting his personal business, a blog and a lot of commitments. It has become famous: the radio call in to tell his story and the pictures of before and after are doing around the world.


source: www.libero.it

Sunday, December 19, 2010

How Should An A3 Poster Look Like

Running Time Christmas - time for snow


This Christmas season was to be time for marathons but ... came the snow!
First things first.
Yesterday I left for Pisa to participate in the marathon, but in fact the first misunderstanding was already on enrollment: I have asked to be included in the half, but since I had purchased a pair of Brooks shoes and I entitled to free, I have entered the marathon, in fact, the entry I made when he was leaving the promotion and only after we found out (the seller and I) that it was only the marathon and the half.
I train with some consistency by only a few months (more or less since last August) and although I've done a few long, I'm not yet ready for the marathon.
I still went to go see and try it, after all, no one prevented me from stopping in the middle and / or to take it as a training: another long (but during this time in the company).
With these doubts, I have prepared the bags (the one to stay away from home and one for running) and I arrived at the Stazione Leopolda, where it was located and the marathon expo where you could pick up a bronze medal.
early arrival, late afternoon, there was a certain excitement and two friends, who would come today to run the half, I was informed by telephone that the path had been moved.
Moral of the story, the snow on Friday, although it was widely heralded, caught completely unprepared for the city of Pisa and its neighbors and, as the organizers have been busy until mid-afternoon to find an alternate route is communication came from the Province of Pisa that the authorization for the event had been revoked and then: no marathon, not in the loop circuit of 7 kilometers around the city hastily arranged by the organizers on Saturday afternoon.
You can imagine how many were angry that they had come to Pisa is far away (some even from abroad) to run this race and how the organizers were disappointed. This

the brief statement issued late yesterday afternoon on the marathon website Pisa :

PisaMarathon announced that: The determination of the Province of Pisa No 5860 of 18.12.2010, received by the organizers at 17.30, required "to stay up to date to be granted permission to PisaMarathon Strapazzata club" to the conduct of competitive event of international interest PisaMarathon Pisanino The 2010 and 2010 in program December 19, 2010.

It can not therefore be carried out either version of the town proposed and endorsed by the Mayor of Pisa for the same reasons.

The organizers are forced, against their will to respect the determination referred to above and therefore will not be able to even play the show circuit city who had studied with local authorities (Municipality of Pisa) to address the known problems that have affected the weather Tuscany in the previous 36 hours.

For reasons of force majeure due to weather conditions and determines the default number. 5860 of 18.12.2010 PisaMarathon can not do otherwise.

For those who want to have fun racing, however, Santa Claus at 9:00 am in the Piazza dei Miracoli, where you can pay the fee of 5 € chip for those who have accepted the pectoral the day today at the Expo.

At that point, I is not nothing left but to go to dinner where I was staying (and where I would have been a guest for the night) and, after dinner, go home. Indeed, the risk of ice on the roads was very high and every street in Pisa I've seen, even if it had been cleaned, the evening had their coating of ice that makes them very dangerous.
I said, it was not to end so soon I started with a marathon time that maybe I will be to complete it (without dying!).

Unfortunately the snow has arrived around my house and stopped making it almost impassable the bike path where I usually go but to train, going to lunch with my parents I saw a lone runner had ventured to run on that track and at the back, a friend of mine told me that he was going to run this morning. And me? Could I give up trying?
said than done, I wore T-shirt and shorts, running shoes I've worn and I left.
I had a very short training, only 45 minutes, but I tried to focus on quality. I ran most of the time on a meadow by the irregular bottom, with snow, slush and ice in order to train the power and proprioception, all with some extension and some climbing at a steady pace on asphalt.
Back home, I completed some exercises for Abdominal: squat on one leg, running the tip, back arc (for more information about these exercises look at the number of Runner's World in December 2010, p. 53 or see the video, in English, at the beginning of this post and the video is drawn from the international version of the site of Runner's World).
In conclusion, one that was likely to be a lost day for the training has proved very fruitful however.
In addition, the inclusion of the marathon this year is next year and then I will be more trained and more serenity I can decide whether to participate or not.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Side Dishes To Go With German Sausage

2004 Olympic Games


The great victory of the great Stefano Baldini marathon at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004.
an exciting video.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Making Portable Volleyball Poles




Visiting Yandiris and Sulequi:
the other side of the Dominican Republic


Mrs. Valentina Clerici is supporting a child in the Dominican Republic, Yandiris Abreu. Here is the testimony of the visit to the little girl carried by her husband of Mrs. Valentina, Mr. Felipe Polanco, who took the opportunity of travel to visit the small Sulequi Garcia, supported by Marina Pomarico, mother of Mrs. Valentina.
's testimony.



a long time we heard about sponsorships and never go into that until we come into contact with Solidaria and its projects in the Dominican Republic.

The choice fell on this land because they are original, thinking it would be easier to bring us there than in any other place to work Solidaria, with the aim to know personally the adopted children. With my wife we \u200b\u200bsupport Yandiris , while my in-laws have become godfathers of Sulequi - both live in Gautier Batey.

In the week I spent in the Dominican Republic, I had the opportunity to meet them, putting agree with the call center managers, Mr. Domingo and Ms. Rosa Alba, I went with them to Gautier, a few km from the capital.
The meeting was very exciting, the girls I have met with parents and siblings, and I was invited to see the houses in the village where they live. Of course, my visit has drawn the attention and interest of many other children, and the temptation to take it all in her arms and take them home was very strong.

Before leaving, we asked Solidaria of interest directly with the families of the girls on their own needs, to avoid buying unnecessary items, although it is difficult to talk about unnecessary Solidaria and has brought in immediately to convey our request to the families and send us their responses. The distribution of gifts (clothes, sandals, books and colors) took place in an atmosphere of curiosity and surprise, maybe the girls did not expect a timely visit as the "godfather", because the adoptions there are donated for Christmas 2009 .

I think for a Dominican to get in touch with these realities very fortunate to be less "impactful" than a European, but I think everyone should take this opportunity to learn about another part of the Dominican Republic was far from 'image of tourist brochures and the 5-star hotels.

Solidaria We believe that the work of the Dominican Republic is very positive and we hope to give a little 'peace of mind of the girls and their families with our small contribution.


Felipe Polanco


Visiting Yandiris



Mr. Felipe Polanco with small Yandiris in the town of Gautier




Together the mother of Yandiris, Rosa Alba and Domingos of Solidaria




The distribution of gifts to Yandiris




The visit Sulequi


Together with the parents of little Sulequi


Sulequi has also received gifts from Italy

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Is There Any Free Mounts In Wow



Haiti: a hundred thousand people with cholera


an emergency without end. In Haiti, where reconstruction in almost a year after the earthquake has not even begun, cholera broke out. More than a thousand victims and 14,642 cases of infection detected. But the World Health Organisation warns that for every case that comes and is confirmed in the laboratory must calculate at least 75 others. Cholera then may have already hit nearly a hundred thousand people.
"You try to control the epidemic, the good news is that it is already mobilized for the earthquake here in Haiti we are full of medical and humanitarian organizations, the answer is no, is consistent and immediate, but the center of the country without hospitals, without adequate services, and the infection comes from the river, you can not sterilize a river, "said a trader of international cooperation.
Ten months after the earthquake, an epidemic of cholera has exploded in the capital Port-au-Prince, after the first cases in the north. According to the WHO might have originated from contamination of the Artibonite River, where it was found the same bacteria present in Southeast Asia. The population's anger was unleashed against the UN peacekeepers of Nepalese origin, in a sort of hunting all'untore unleashed by the collective panic. To coordinate the contrast of the epidemic and treat the infected and the time especially Doctors Without Borders, a providential presence, but also a sign that the local government and the Ministry of Health does not have the resources and the ability to take charge of the situation.
The latest tragedy in Haiti has exploded despite the work and the massive presence of several humanitarian organizations. Have been avoided? "Cholera breaks out only if there is the vibrio responsible for the disease in Haiti and so far there was no" explain the Doctors Without Borders, "Actually, after the earthquake but there were fears of cholera outbreaks of tetanus, typhoid, measles and is now playing vaccination. What is certain is that in Haiti, and particularly in Port-au-Prince were all the conditions for cholera exploded, or poor hygienic conditions, poor access to clean, safe water, overcrowding in the camps. "

Almost a year after the earthquake are one million and 500 thousand people still living in tented camps. In Port-au-Prince in a year are only being moved in the rubble, there are no signs of reconstruction. The NGOs have been distributing emergency aid, worked on the rehabilitation of schools, built latrines and drinking water supply points, but the reconstruction of homes it is for the government with the support United Nations agencies, but according to information circulating in Haiti, no one will be unlocked until after the elections, scheduled for Nov. 28. Taking into account that the new president of Haiti should take office in February, the reconstruction plan will still have to wait.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Am I Pregnant If My Cm Is Milky White



cholera: Another disaster in Haiti


not only the earthquake, but now the cholera strikes on an island and wound already affected by a disaster in early 2010 that has claimed more than 250 thousand deaths. The authorities in Port-au-Prince declared a state of health emergency facing the spread of cholera.

According to the budget of local authorities, the epidemic has resulted in a few days killed at least 200 people and about two thousand cases of infection, but it is a budget set to rise.

The epidemic of cholera has been confirmed by a source from the Ministry of Health, based on the early results of tests carried out after the deaths. The government convened an urgent meeting with health authorities.
''We found more than 200 deaths and 1,498 cases of people suffering from dysentery. According to laboratory analysis, it is cholera, "said the president of the doctors in Haiti, in a statement to Agence France Presse.

Most of the victims were recorded along the Artibonite river which runs through the center and north of the country. " This is an epidemic due to water used in the homes of those regions ," said Ariel Henry, director of the Ministry of Health of Haiti. " Some people have died in their homes in the Artibonite region and central areas of Haiti and several hundreds are hospitalized and placed under control ," they added other medical sources.

While the alarm is spreading in the neighboring Dominican Republic, which launched a program of prevention, President of Haiti, Rene Preval, has convened a new emergency meeting to decide how to tackle the spread of the disease and what recommendations to give to the population. The fear of the authorities in Port-au-Prince is that the epidemic is spreading rapidly precisely because of the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims sheltering in relief camps. the field are already working to international organizations that have provided aid after the earthquake of January. the Italian Red Cross is working to distribute 30 thousand liters of drinking water in the department of Artibonite. In the same region have also traveled teams Doctors Without Borders, in collaboration with local health authorities, are treating patients and providing necessary measures for prevention of infection.

A UN expert, Walter Kaelin, who alleged in a report the profound humanitarian crisis that the country is going through. "according to estimates, one million three hundred thousand people, including those who have lost their homes during the earthquake and who has escaped extreme poverty exacerbated by the earthquake are still living in temporary camps in Port-au-Prince and its ," said Kaelin. " The inhabitants of refugee camps have needs that are handled internally by the field, such as the need to have a shelter but also other urgent needs such as access health care, water, sanitation and education, involving the entire community, thus ensuring the uniform treatment among people living in tents and who is not .

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Green Coleslaw Vinegarette

WHERE AND HOW WE OPERATE NEWS

Maisha Onlus Safi decided to cooperate with a voluntary organization called English CHILDREN OF AFRICA . The president is Susanna Gom ez Solè , a girl who for years has traveled to Kenya to help AIDS Orphanage Likoni (and it is That's why we met), but this year decided to shift its attention to a rural village called TSUNZA (Mombasa).
Tsunza is a town of about 10,000 inhabitants of the district of Kinango (Kwale), one of the poorest parts of Kenya. 75% of the population lives below the poverty line because of:

- Limited infrastructure development. For example, roads, electricity, acqu a, etc..

- Low agricultural production due to problems in land ownership

- Marketing agricultural products and poor undeveloped

- Base agro-industrial poor

- Lack of an efficient hospital


The main economic activities are the ' agriculture, livestock and fisheries, but climate change has caused a great impact in the environment damaging virtually all crops, without causing a deterioration of their more serious situation. It must be emphasized too and that the rate of 'AIDS is very high (33.2% of the population is infected), so measures are needed to increase knowledge and health education. In addition, overcrowding has a direct impact on basic needs like water, food, health and education . This implies that efforts are needed to address this population growth and economic constraints that growth entails.

All the projects we have done during the summer of 2010 (the photos are in the Projects section Tsunza '10) have been thoroughly researched and designed by her. Considering all its good intentions and objectives we have gladly supported his initiatives and will continue to do so n that in the future, actively working for the socio-economic of this village!





Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Funeral Service Signature Books

'ORPHANAGE OF SUMMER '10 Likoni

As you know this organization was created to support the orphanage Likoni of ... the reason that the more I was compelled to make this decision was mismanagement by the Pastor of the structure and children. I thought that something concrete could have been done to their benefit and that over time I would see improvements. The program for this summer was in fact to spend 3 weeks to Likoni and implement many projects with funds collected for them and 2 weeks to Tsunza to donate the proceeds to Susanna Gomez Sole, president of a volunteer organization English CHILDREN OF AFRICA.Quest 'summer we decided to collaborate united by love for children (they are 4 years to support Likoni), but we reluctantly and together we decided that there is nothing to be done for them. The situation we found was terrible . ..


walls pitted last year completely destroyed, mattresses bought last year, broken or missing, all currencies have disappeared, children who slept on the ground to leave the bed free for "volunteers" cockroaches everywhere (even in the beds during the night), kitchen refurbishment last year destroyed ..... heartbreaking! The reason for this debacle is very simple .... the priest to show that the orphanage needs a continuous support from volunteers every time someone buys or makes anything he does go away or destroy it .... absurd?? ..... not quite normal for Likoni, now the children are used ...
you ask why ... of course iv olontari to go pay them money and go straight into his pockets by increasing the daily and destroying its finances and day after day the orphanage! Ours was a very tough decision to make, but a man so powerful (as is) will never change the way it operates and we can not have them not being in control. We strive throughout the year to raise funds, we work hard to be able to see our dreams come true ... and not destroy .... we really want to change things, but it takes cooperation. Unfortunately, it is a reality very different from ours, with its dynamics and its contradictions difficult .. to understand and change. There are limits, we must understand them and shall not exceed ....
We made sure that several people sent regularly sponsor r money for food and English in particular that a sponsor pay the tuition to all children ... and only after we have decided to invest our money into something more concrete that the priest can not destroy ... Manc construct two classes of anti Timbwani Primary School (orphanage where children go to school), thus ending the draft started the year last year. Needless to say, the satisfaction in seeing the finished work ... (see the projects section Likoni 2010)

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

How To Get Pokemon Gold On My Mac

POLE POLE AND THE' COMPANY OF AFRICA

Here we are now back from nearly a month after a summer spent in Italy the rhythm of the Pole Pole (slowly) in KENYA ...
actually if I go back to what I thought immediately comes to mind are the many projects completed in a short time we had available to achieve them and the fact that we were always engaged in something, always fighting with time, always plan and set new targets ... pole but the pole was there ... inside us ... it was our mood, one that allows us to live peacefully, always with a smile and get to end the day exhausted, but happy for what we had done and the desire to relive the same day a thousand times.
pole The pole is Africa live without ... the clock, and waking up with a rooster's crow, is the dinner when it gets dark, it's going to sleep under the sky most beautiful star in the world ... that's all you have inside, stays inside you and that will not leave you alone anymore ....
I loved living among the people, with people and feel after a month one of them, I loved the constant smile of children, their songs, their dances and I loved playing with them, I loved to eat their food with them, I loved to take a shower without a roof, at night, with palm trees and full moon were the setting, I loved reading the gratitude on the face of the people I loved the joy of all the volunteers who allowed you to play down any "Matata" (problem), I loved the rain and the sun soon, I loved the few moments of silence, but especially the many of confusion ...
... I loved every single moment IN KENYA ... and now I miss him every single time ......


Monday, September 27, 2010

What Happens If A Plasma Breaks




Some pr ogress
fighting hunger
Despite some progress, the situation remains unacceptable


In 2010, for the first time in fifteen years has reversed the trend: 98 million individuals are
rose above the threshold of 1,800 calories per day, FAO said with its technical language, typical of international agencies.

Hunger, in short, has dropped: in the world suffer from the 9.6% fewer people than last year. In presenting the report Sofi 2010, however, the Director-General Jacques Diouf has left little room for optimism: "With a child dies every six seconds for problems related to malnutrition, hunger remains a scandal and tragedy more vast proportions in the world, "he said. " This is absolutely unacceptable."

Looking at the figures for recent years, the good news of the FAO is resized. It is true that the number of hungry people fell for the first time in 15 years. But it is also true that he had surged from 2006 to 2009. The number of hungry people by 873 million of 2006 rose to 1.02 billion in 2009, the highest level ever reached. Blame the food crisis first and then the financial crisis, which hit the most vulnerable people, especially in Africa, making them fall in the vicious circle of poverty and hunger. Now the new data of FAO is an improvement, but by the same UN agency, is due to the growing economies of China and India more that targeted policies.

Sofi 2010 According to the report, the region remains the most undernourished Asia with 578 million individuals. But sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest proportion of hungry people: 30%, with 239 million people. Within the continent, then, there are different situations: in the 2005-2007 biennium Congo, Mali, Ghana and Nigeria had already reached the first MDG (eradicating extreme poverty and hunger), and countries like Ethiopia are close to doing so. But in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the proportion of hungry people increased by 69%.
The eight millennium goals are therefore more closer than a few years ago? Progress comes more encouraging on the face of maternal health. According to the report "Trends in maternal mortality ", in sub-Saharan Africa maternal mortality decreased by 26% and in Asia the number of maternal deaths is estimated to have declined from 315,000 to 139,000 between 1990 and 2008, a decrease of 52%.

The progress is remarkable, said UNICEF, but the rate of decline is less than half of what is necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75% between 1990 and 2015, which will require an annual fall of 5.5%, decline by 34% compared to 1990 equivalent to a decrease in annual average of just 2.3%.
The result, however, marked a clear progress against maternal mortality, a plague that afflicts mainly the countries where the health care system is precarious, and with few resources. 99% of all maternal deaths in 2008 occurred in developing countries, with Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia, accounting for 57% and 30% of all deaths.

In view of the UN Summit of September 20th a large group of Italian associations has launched its proposals in the dossier "Achieving the Millennium Development Goals . The recommendations of civil society", referring the Italian government and the delegation that will go to New York.





Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Having Trouble With Chemical Formulas





I did not think he could realize our dream ...

Simona De Angelis and Dionigi Fratta of Capodrise (EC) in August visited the child they are supporting remote
in the Dominican Republic, little Maicol Junior and also met the small Berenice De Los Santos , supported by their friend Gianluca Porfidia . Here is their testimony.




I did not think could ever realize our dream to meet Maicol , well, it happened ... It was incredible, an emotion that I believe has never povato far.
addition to this we have also visited Bener a child supported by our other friends, always in the Dominican Republic, and even here the tears flowed non-stop.

There were also many other children that are not easily forget their eyes, and joy they showed by coming encounter while taking who collected the candy in their T-shirts for those who had!
My husband and I have found that Solidaria really tries to help those children and give them the bases to improve their future.


Thanks to all those who support a child at a distance and through solidarity that allows us to help these little angels.

Simona De Angeli and Dionysius Fratta




Simon and Dionysius with Maicol






Simon and Dionysius with Berenice, supported by Gianluca Porfidia





Monday, September 6, 2010

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The War of Bread



Maputo The Executive will reconsider the increases have already been decided and ordered the two-thirds of the poverty population. And the world grows the risk of a new era of wars for the bread. Ten dead and almost 300 wounded were not enough. After two days of urban warfare, destroyed and looted shops, buses and cars on fire and the army had to intervene to give a hand and help the police to disperse protesters took to the streets to protest the price increases, the government Mozambique said the cost increases decided in recent weeks should be considered "irreversible."

For a State which is just over 20 million inhabitants, where 14 of them living below the poverty line and salaries that do not reach the $ 2 a day, this is to condemn the majority of the population to 'poverty and poverty, with the risk of new waves of protests, riots and other other victims. The data collected by the International Monetary Fund indicate that the Mozambican economy grows faster than that of its neighbors. In the African country, however, prices are still rising and inflation galloping erode the already meager weekly wages of workers. On September

water and electricity prices increased by 13 percent, while at the beginning of August had increased by 8 fuel because of the liberalization policy pursued by the government in Maputo, which is gradually stop subsidizing gasoline.
As if all this were not enough, next week is expected to further increase the price of bread, which will add to that already recorded in recent days.

Recently, FAO, the Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has warned for the growth of food prices on the international market, which reached the highest level of the last two years, while they were still below the peak reached in June 2008.
Between July and August, the surge was 5 percent. An increase in part related to the blocking of exports Russian wheat decided by Moscow after the devastating fire last month that destroyed part of his harvest, but in different parts of the world, as in Mozambique, is likely to be misused by governments and private companies to generate increases in prices and increase their profits. also why the United Nations have decided to analyze the problem on September 24 calling for an extraordinary session of the Intergovernmental Group on Grains and the Intergovernmental Panel on FAO Rice.

Meanwhile reappeared the possibility of a new era of wars for the bread, such as those that were fought two years ago in many poor areas of the globe, from Mexico to Bangladesh, with millions of people forced to fight against laws and market economic principles just to (try to) eat a single morsel of bread
.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Home Remedies For Sharpening Old Ice Skates




Behind the revolt of Maputo, cost of living and injustices



E 'seven dead, including two children, and nearly a hundred injured in clashes in the various budget areas of the capital of Mozambique, Maputo, between police and thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest against rising prices of food staples.

The riots coincided with the entry into force of price rises in a series essential services, from water to electricity. But the rising price of bread, which should lay it on thick Monday by almost 40%, would have been the spark that ignited the protest protests are not organized by any union or association but only by a simple word circulated through SMS on mobile phones.

" Behind the revolt of Maputo's high prices, poverty in the suburbs, a social divide that is increasing " says the agency Misna . The riots coincided with the entry into force of price rises in a range of essential services, from water to electricity. Monday, then, the price of bread would increase by almost 40%. The latter increase would have been the spark that ignited the protest today, a protest was not organized by any union or association but only by a simple word circulated through SMS on mobile phones.
"inflation The race started already last year, shortly after the confirmation election of the 'Liberation Front of Mozambique' to the end of government subsidies . In the period that preceded the October 2009 legislative vote, explain the Misna, the government has depressed prices for gasoline and many consumer goods. In the long run, however, this policy was not sustainable from a financial point of view. This year, the end of March to the end of August, gasoline prices have risen by almost 50%. Inflation, before the vote and 2% to 16% today, led to the devaluation of the Metical and thus increasing the cost of imported goods denominated in dollars or South African rand. Of these dynamics, decisive for the gasoline price increases but also the flour bought on international markets, told the Misna some missionaries.
" stone-throwing and looting of shops with the police - says Konrad Klich father, a missionary of the Divine Word in Maputo - ignite the suburbs, where no work and the poor feel abandoned .

Fueling the tensions, the sources of stress Misna are also social inequalities. " Mozambique is rich in coal, timber and other natural resources but exports only enrich a small elite . The sources of Misna exclude significant involvement of opposition parties, the Movement for multiparty democracy and the Mozambique National Resistance, weak and divided. Difficult to predict how it will end, despite an important precedent: In February 2008, before the October elections, demonstrations and riots led the government to cancel a 50% increase of freight rates.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Pinnacle Tvcenter Problem






Haiti: travelogue

Our responsible for the Caribbean, Domingo de la Peña, is back in Haiti for another load of food. Here is the story of his journey.



Jimaní When I reach the border, one of three border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, it is late afternoon. I started mid-morning from Santo Domingo to pick up Solidaria cargo of food and now look forward to cross the rusty gate that marks the border between two worlds: the well-being, albeit relative, of The poverty of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
There is the confusion of last week when, at any time of day or night, dozens of vehicles were waiting to enter the other side of the cars' UN, the Red Cross, humanitarian organizations, columns of trucks loaded with tents, medicines, foodstuffs. Now the vehicles in front of me are few and in a few minutes, facilitated by the fact that I have a load of food to be delivered, I find myself in Haitian territory, on the dusty and winding narrow dirt road between the mountains and lake Azuelo .

The goal of today is not far away: the mission of Bosque Fons Jean Parisien, where they are directed, is only twenty miles and you arrive at dusk, from father Wilnor expected, the better. Here Solidaria is supporting some of the pupils of the school's primary mission, many of whom are orphaned after the earthquake and father Wilnor I'll have to define the organizational aspects of the aid program. In one of the poorest places on earth, where every day you fight for life, this mission is an 'island of happiness for many children who can hope to survive the poverty that afflicts them from birth, grow, learn and be able to change their own destiny.


spend the night on a mission and the next morning, accompanied by Eric, the Haitian missionary who show me the tent city in which to leave the burden of genres food, I head to Port au Prince. In February and March I came here with loads of other foods purchased by Solidaria. The streets were blocked by the columns of aid and to reach the capital had spent several hours but now there is little traffic, a sign that the emergency phase is over.
the outskirts of Port au Prince begin to look at the first tent.


" Throughout the city there are 347 - Eric informs me - and home to almost 700 000 people. The situation is improving and even water supplies are secured . Eric's statements seem to be confirmed in a number of trucks that I see round the streets, now almost completely cleared from the rubble of collapsed buildings, even if it remains the painful image of a devastated country, where everything seems to be confirmed. Along the streets of the city center, the dust raised by vehicles and the hot sun, hundreds of stalls displaying everything that was possible to extract from the rubble and that no one has claimed: iron, dishes, electrical equipment, parts of household appliances, pens, books ...


After the situation of extreme emergency the first few weeks, with dead everywhere, the wounded could not be cured, desperate people without food and water, now life has resumed a semblance of normality. Along the roads begin to see students in uniform, banks and markets have begun to function, and even some restaurant opened its doors. Small signs of rebirth through which one has the feeling of a return to normal, although this will take years. In the tent city where we leave the load in the center, distance between ropes stretched out to dry with towels and plastic sheeting where it trades, we cook, sleep, play, life is slowly recovering its spaces. Lowering of ropes and sheets, including children with curious looks and laughing eyes, I was invited to come and sit down.


heard stories of grief and suffering, and are invited to tell who they are and why my turn came. The eyes of the people are full of dignity, even though most of them recognize the signs of pain and can not be otherwise with more than 250 000 victims, 300 000 wounded and over a million homeless. Luck did not favor this country, ravaged by poverty, political violence and misrule, is hit by natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods and earthquakes, the effects are compounded by the lack of a plan, so that people built as he wanted and where he wanted.


Four months after the disaster, the problems are still many. You can not think of a final settlement for the homeless and tent cities will remain until they begin reconstruction. Let the load of food, I stop before the ruins of the cathedral graveyard for dozens of young people who were trying their repertoire of songs, for the archbishop and the vicar. Why so many deaths? I ask myself more than to Eric. "For many things " - he replies. " Especially for the social situation and abandonment. In Haiti, the presence of the state has always been precarious. Until the sixties there was little difference between Haiti and the other countries of the region, such as Honduras or the Dominican Republic, but then the dictatorship has destroyed this country. In the seventies the economic management has been disastrous and caused a big rural exodus. In eighties international cooperation has decided that Haiti, the poorest country in the West, but the aid should be supported, made without any dialogue with the Haitian society, has done nothing but strengthen our poverty. If you do not come into contact with the population, can never be null to build. "


It is evening when we return to the mission of Fons Parisien. Things start to improve slowly and now is up to us not forget these people and follow the long and slow process of rebirth, which we hope will be able to bring it to a quality of life that every person deserves.

Domingo de Peña