(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 19 - The geographical and cultural suburbs, told by girls and boys who live in those places, often treated with superficiality, and who work for the inclusion and social redemption of their territory: this is the content of a publication, "Venti di periferia" by ChiaraNocchetti, photographs by Maria Novella De Luca and with the foreword by Nello Scavo, correspondent of Avvenire. A book - presented today in the Nasserya Room of Palazzo Madama on the occasion of the UN World Children's Day - born from the will of Apurimac ETS to tell the peripheries of the world, places where the voluntary association has been working and intervening for several years to protect rights humans.
It is a journey to discover these territories, from the north to the south of our Peninsula, through the words of the protagonists of the Italian stories and that of Cuzco in Peru, and the obstinacy to believe that another world is possible, that the winds of the change also expire in these invisible places. "In all the words expressed by the protagonists of 'Venti diPeriferia' - underlines Federica De Benedicts of Apurimac ETS and editor of the text - there is that desire to grasp the wind of change as an opportunity to get out of the normality in which they live and transform their lives with a possible future . Each voice acquires, in accepting to be carried by the wind, the awareness of its rights and, at the same time, makes places visible to the most unknown.essence of this book and its photographs: a journey into the awareness of each one. This has been our work for years that allows many boys and girls to understand that it is possible to escape from their mental peripheries, in which they are refugees or harnessed, that social redemption within one's own neighborhood, one's own territory, one's community is possible. But we have to start from ourselves ".
For Apurimac ETS, a Christian-inspired voluntary organization that has been involved for almost 30 years in Italy and in some countries of the world to support the human rights of the most vulnerable people, the suburbs are a laboratory of despair characterized by a chronic absence: that of the rights of base, civil, political, human;
few hospitals, few schools, few possibilities of movement, few connections with the center, few opportunities for exchange and a lot of marginalization and ghettoization.
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