This 2019 is the fourth year of our association
"ACQUACHIARACONGO"
The realizations till now completed, the sincere adhesion of many friends who support us, and the gratification of the beneficiaries African children and women, push us to continue on the line we initially began: total transparency of our work and management which is completely volontary.
All this make possible that the received contributions are dedicated to our African brothers and sisters.
Acquachiaracongo lives its action as a debit of gratitude towards these populations , from centuries exploited by the occident and systematically depredate of their precious raw materials of their territory, which have to be in some ways compensated.
During this year we brought to end lots of projects. Some really very important for an association as ours which is living essentially through the contributions of friendly and of trust people, and of others, even if in less economical involvement, who are always heading to bring a bit of hope and happiness to our African children and women.
Inside these pages of our fourth diary we would like to bring to your knowledge all the realised projects, to let everybody who has been contributing a little or more, being part of the good made offers and of the unlimited gratitude of those children and those women.
Lanciano, December 2019
This year our school "Reina de la Paz" of Goma reached the record number of 637 subscribed students. The activity and actions are: the childhood school, the primary school, and the first two classes of the secondary school.
The school is legaly recognised and deserves an area of limit of the city where it fulfils a role of aggregation and of acculturation of the young people which differently would be lost on the roads.
The school signboard
Acquachiaracongo in the last years provided to all the necessities of building, restructuration, furniture of the classes of the childhood and primary schools; this year it bought a site, and let built here two new classes, and the tools for the secondary school. It is inside our association desires, after that the youngs will have been keeping their secondary school graduation,
A dedication in a classroom to Chiara Manini
to prepare for them the frequence to work training courses, like the one for tailors, for which we have already supplied a room atelier which will be furthermore increased.
The iniziative is reaching a new renewed interest, already acting last year, of the support to study at distance (SSD).
Currently 70 children indigent, (or because they are orphans, or because they were born in so wide families or because their parents can’t find a job), they can regularly attend the school.
With the contribution of 15 euro per month from our beneficiaries, they are regularly present to the lessons, they eat at school 3 times per week, they have got in dotation the school uniforms, and they wear the new shoes supplied by Acquachiaracongo. From this year for the indigent children, often left by their own during the school holidays, we created summer courses
The uniforms and sent shoes
The school lunch of indigent children
In which we involved them in manual and jocking activities. In this first experience the children and youngs learnt to realise coloured baskets, which selling permitted to have a little income for the school.
The sanitary problem in Congo, in the region of Kivu particularly, is very deep and heavy.
The ebola and the measles are endemic plagues and children, above all for the measles, are the first and more numberous victims.
The shortage of food, the shortage of water with the consequent difficulty of following the sufficient hygienic rules, and the missing medical equiped centers, are the bases of this tragic situation.
The new building of the medical center
Our little hospital, realised in a building in walls which has been available by the kindness of Don Jean relatives, and equiped with modern instruments by our association, during the year has been enlarged and lets more functional.
The ecocardiotocografo
We created new locals adapted to the chemistry, for the laboratory of analysis and for the first needs ambultory.
Sanitary worker assistant at the microscope
For this very involving realisation the association of Ortona called "Mensa degli angeli" gave us some helps with a generous starting contribution, while we covered the high total expense through the received donations.
Now "our" little hospital is able to make better its part in facing the grave described situation.
Among the first initiative in that way we would like to underline as our medical center sanitary director and the school director of "Reina de la Paz" managed an agreement for the preventive or urgent interventions on our students.
Finally all the school students observe the basic elementary hygienic rules before ignored.
he hands cleaning before entering at school
To create the opportunity of work for the local inhabitants is a main objective of our association.
During the activities developed in these years, through the microcredit some women stopped to bring heavy stuffs on their shoulders (one of the most "normal" activity) and they started some little activities of details selling retail, other people (men and women) work in the atelier in a very efficient way (in Goma under the guiding of Sister Brigitte, in Bukavu under the guiding of Madame Bibiche).
The sewing machines given by Acquachiaracongo come from the contributions offered by couples of just married people who, renouncing to their fancy sweet-box, prefered to choose a different way to honour their union.
A tailor man in his house atelier
A tailor man while he his working
Concerning the atelier, we wish n the new incoming year we can realise the project we are really very linked to and of which we talked about as possible professional line for the young people at the end of their secondary school studies.
A very closed friend of the association, a previous student of our president, dismissing his own production activity of clothes manufacture, knew about our association, and wanted to offer us the professional sewing machines of his atelier to succeed in opening in Goma a didactic atelier and a production line.
The machines are all very precisely revisioned, packed and given to a travel expedition agency managed by a woman from Congo who was always working in these kind of transport matter.
Sending expedition of the sewing machines of Mr Giancristofaro
Unfortunately for sudden difficulties of the sending agency, the machines didn’t leave anymore for Africa: for this, but soon, we will be charging the transport to another transport agency company.
We hope that after having finished with the difficulties we will be succeeding in inaugurating a big and wide atelier whose locals have been already prepared and which will be named with the surname and name of Mr Vincenzo Giancristofaro.
Acquachiaracongo has got in its DNA the duty to make sensible the students of the schools in Lanciano, and also outside the region, to the solidarity towards their companions less lucky than them.
Our call has been devolved to some teachers of Lanciano, sensible to the problem, and the visit to their classes are giving the first good results. We have got 2 classes, one in the Classical College of Lanciano and one of the Primary school in Olmo di Riccio, whose students are dealing with the support of study of 2 of their companions of the “Reina de la Paz” school.
Other classes of childhood schools in Frisa, Lanciano and Marcianese, have offered their toys, their dolls and didactic materials of different genders which have been sent by post packs by our association.
One of the packages containing didactic materials
The delivery of the packages to the school
One class from the chidhood school of Santa Giusta gave a generous contribution to offer to their African companions that is a swing which is still functioning with the great hapiness of the children.
The swing given by a childhood class of Santa Giusta
After these initiatives in a lot of children borned the exigence to have and keep direct contact between them, activating a fulfilment of letters and photos which are structuring a precious document for their human growth.
Acquachiaracongo will commit its secretary of “Reina de la Paz” school to satisfy all the requests made in that way. Here after we report the letter of the child who opened this channel of reciprocal knowledge.
Translation of the letter
Thursday 24/10/2019
Gabriel Bimwa 4th class.
To you, my friends, pupils of the Primary school of Olmo di Riccio.
I'm Gabriel Bimwa.
I want to thank you for your love and friendship with me.
I'm fine and my whole family is fine too. Things are going well at school, too. I'm doing everything I can to get promoted to the next class next year.
Again I thank you for your gifts that you send us every year. Be blessed, dear friends.
Gabriel Bimwa
For the next year 2020 we propose ouselves to potentiate all the initiatives already started, improving their afficacy and making wider, if possible, their action ray, taking all the occasions which will be occuring to start activities which have the aim to get lighter the pains of these battered populations.
This fast synthesis of the activity developed in the year 2019 represents an annual appointment for all the friends of Acquachiaracongo, because they have at their disposal a document which, shows in details the initiatives took and the realised projects, to let them aware to be an active part of a little big organisation which, silently, but very practically, gives drops after drops, some relief in a far area of the so big African continent, and help them to spread the solidarity message in a total complete transparent way which denotes our association.
"ACQUACHIARACONGO"
Is really very proud of what it is doing, of what it did, and above all of what itwill be doing to enhance the realisation of the dreams of many African children.
We feel, for this reason, the duty to send our deep thanking and our inconditionated estimation to the hundreds of beneficiaries who encourage us and support us in this deep and marvellous adventure.
"God and the angels are not paid, even if their work is among the most important.
The same is for those who make the good."