Basta conoscersi – il progetto e i percorsi di formazione
19 Ottobre 2017Living Peace – living in progress
9 Novembre 2017[:en]
A story of solidarity that unites the women of Sardinia with the women of El Cairo.
Ozieri is a beautiful town perched on the mountains of the province of Sassari. It is renowned in Sardinia and in Italy to be the centre of the so-called “Logudoro”, or “Golden place”. Here a group of ladies decided to dedicate themselves to their traditional art of embroidery.
It’s a way to spend free time, stay together, preserve and pass on an important local tradition to younger people and, above all, a way to raise funds and support one of AMU’s projects.
In fact, “le ragazze del LaborAmor (the “Love Lab Girls”)”, this is how the lab is called and how friends and fellow citizens call them, are capable to magically embroider all kinds of household linen and then resold their artefacts on three annual markets.
The proceeds of these sales partly go to the emergencies and needs of the local community and largely to AMU’s project in Egypt, “Chance for tomorrow”.
Lately, Nevin, the coordinator of the project, came from Egypt and was welcomed by the girls of LaborAmor in Sardinia. The exchange of emotions was really intense: Ozieri’s women showed their work, and at the same time involved Nevin the afternoon in their laborious and joyful style. She has told how life takes place at KozKazah, the foundation of AMU’s partner.
In Shubra, one of the most difficult and poor suburbs of El Cairo, every day hundreds of children and women are together, overcoming any difference and distrust associated with age, sex, or, above all, religion. Just as friendship and fraternity joins Ozieri’s women, so every day in Koz Kazah we try to build a large family to accommodate, after school, children that would otherwise be under difficult and dangerous conditions, and to teach women to find the place and dignity within society. Muslim boys and girls, who are the majority, spend the afternoon with Christian boys and girls, playing together, studying or learning to build small artefacts.
Nevin told how the Muslim women wanted to spontaneously record a video message when the local Christian community was upset by a massacre of innocents, killed just as they were celebrating Mass. It was a message full of understanding, love and respect. And it was also a request not to believe that those were the true Muslims:
The thread that unites the “girls of Ozieri” and the women of the Koz Kozah centre is one of the extraordinary effects of this all-female solidarity.[:]