"I was desperate because, despite some distractions like studying Arabic, I lived in fear of the uncertainty of my fate." With these words Silvia Romano , the Milanese volunteer kidnapped in Kenya and freed last May after a year and a half of captivity, told for the first time in an interview the months of captivity and her conversion to Islam in the online newspaper 'La Luce ' , of which Davide Piccardo is an exponent of the Islamic community in Milan. "But the more time passed and the more I felt in my heart that only He could help me and he was showing me how - he added -. Faith has different degrees and mine developed with time. Surely after accepting the Islamic faith I looked to my destiny with serenity in the soul ".
"When I go around I feel people's eyes on me, I don't know if they recognize me or if they simply look at me for the veil. But it doesn't particularly bother me. I feel my soul free and protected by God. For me my veil is a symbol of freedom ". "By metro or by bus I think it affects the fact that I am Italian and dressed like this - he added -. I feel inside that God asks me to wear the veil to raise my dignity and my honor, because by covering my body I know that a person will be able to see my soul. "
"I felt the need to go and get involved by helping the other in the concrete. The idea of continuing to study and stay here did not suit me, I wanted to have a real experience, to grow and to help others." So Silvia Romano told why she decided to leave for Africa. "I have always been compassionate, very sensitive towards children, abused women, I have always felt a lot of empathy, - he added - but the next step, that of really acting, of making myself useful to the other with the action I have done only at the end of the university ".