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Uganda - Another report Luke Brothers
Some time ago we received the beautiful intentions of Dr. Luke, a physician specializing in pediatrics, who told us his experience of training in a hospital in northern Uganda. With pleasure, I reprint here the latest impressions of Luke. A quick goodbye to Africa and return to Naples. Here is his final budget.
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... I do not know, even I know that I would not be able to do an epilogue of this (first and last) experience. We simply do not find the words.
"we whites"
I came here with the "presumption in good faith" typicalwant to know a place and try to help. I'm going with many questions and few, but solid certainties : In recent months I have received and learned, from any point of view, much, much more than I gave. I am therefore indebted to this continent, and sooner or later I'll come back. Although inevitably All times longer to receive than to give.
What can I say to the dozens of people telling me: "wonderful experience that you're doing" "how I envy you" "you're not lucky in Naples."Sorry, but someone joins you? Schedule. E 'in a disarmingly simple. It's nothing special and is not an act of courage. A minimum of decision and everyone can do it. Mal going, has been a brief period of life. But if he is fine ...Africa in the fund is something too large to be described
What is Africa to me ... This is another question that has been made. At first I thought it was a meaningless question, is like trying to bring together so many different things too. And then I do not know Africa. I have an experience of only five months in Northern Uganda., a group of people, cultures, places that can not be summarized in a few lines and can not be cnosciuto in so little time.
Then, thinking a bit, 'perhaps it is true that these people, these places and these traditions have something in common with each other. I would not be able to describe it, then I refer to the words of a book I read in this period. Describes some of Africa decade ago. It 'amazing how tremendously today."... and finally, the major finding, the men, the locals, the natives.
The way you agree with this landscape, with this light, the smell . How to form an integrated whole. As a man and landscape form a harmonious and indivisible whole, identify with each other. Among the palms, those vines, the bush and the jungle the white man seems to be a spurious element, incongruous, discordant. Pale, weak, his shirt drenched with sweat, still tormented by thirst, a sense of helplessness. Always in fear : mosquitoes, amoeba, scorpions, snakes. Everything that moves fills him with panic, fear. For the locals, however, is quite the opposite: with their power, their grace and their strength, they move freely and naturally to the rhythm imposed by climate and tradition, a slower pace, which knows no hurry : so much in life you can have it all, gotta leave something to others. "" ... the European and the African have
' completely different idea of \u200b\u200btime, and consider him There are related in opposite ways. For Europeans, time exists objectively, independently of man, outside of us, and has measurable properties and linear. The European feel to the service time, it is conditional, it is his subject. Must comply with dates, deadlines, hours. between man and the time there is an irresolvable conflict that always ends with the defeat of man. The Africans, however, means the time in a completely opposite. For them it is a category much more flexible, open, elastic, subjective. And 'the man who acts on the form and pace on the course of time. Time is actually something that man can create, in fact, the existence of time manifests itself through events, and that an event takes place or not depends on man. Time is an entity inert, passive and, above all, dependent on man. "...
As in Europe, and especially in America, individualism is a value appreciated, both in Africa is synonymous with misfortune and curse . The African tradition and community, because being in a supportive group was the only way to cope with the constant natural disasters. And one of the conditions of survival of the group is precisely the sharing of possessions. "
"... in these parts is not uncommon to see two (or more) people who laugh like mad. They are not telling jokes. We are simply saying goodbye. " (also not infrequently happens in Naples. Ndr)We "white men" in the name of an alleged progress or welfare, we are committed so much to destroy this world.
A in a bit ',
Luca
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