Life network

A photo arrived a few days ago from Tanzania is the starting point for some thoughts that are really nice to be able to share. It is certainly not a professional shot but still a piece of history, in his own way, stares at it. A piece of that history made up of little ones who, by doing small things, realize even bigger things step by step. And they open roads, perhaps dirt roads, but beautiful and useful, because they can be traveled by everyone, and they lead to a concrete goal of hope. The foliage that emerges in the pickup platform is that of 240 avocado plants, already grafted. In three years they will begin to produce and with a little more patience, each year they will come to supply 40-50 kg of fruit each year. A nutritious food, which today also has a thriving export market to Europe; something that pays a little better for the daily effort of farmers.

The donor nurseryman is behind the lens, and is Father Innocent Ngaillo, who, among other things, runs a large farm in his parish of Mkiu where a little bit of everything is grown and reared , and the same is learned, to then bring new possibilities to the families of the area. Alongside the vehicle, two other long-time friends of ours, the Teresina Sisters: they reside a few hundred kilometers away, in Iringa, but, as experience makes us say, it is good for good people to meet.

For some years we have created a contact between these two paths, exchanging experiences on current initiatives and future work hypotheses. For some time, the sisters have resorted to their father Innocent's expertise as agronomist to make their agricultural activities more productive, with which they independently seek their livelihood and the many services, health, hospitality, work with women in the villages. The avocados will have a home on their vast estate of Kihanga Farm , a project that we developed together years ago precisely for the desired self-sustainability. Which now still has one more opportunity. Just as others could arise from the sisters' willingness to live a service in projects - for now in the heart - in Mkiu: a dispensary and a home for orphaned children.

Good comes from good ... a gift lived how many times! Like, years ago, in Brazil, where the teachers of the Agricultural Family Schools, which had long been strongly supported, made themselves available several times to various initiatives. The project contribution and the training provided by them were essential in large programs in the context of the agrarian reform promoted in the 90s, as well as to increase the self-sufficiency of welcoming street children, or the production of honey by the little ones. farmers. And it continues today, in many forms. As well as the many cases in which the relationship was created by experimenting with the replicability of technical solutions successfully adopted in a context that had requested them, applying them in others, even far away. An experience gained can become a turning point in different realities that suffer from similar problems. Once more, we experience how much a relationship around the good is life. Meshes of a network that can support the fate of the poor.


Mauro Palombo
NP April 2022

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