The departure is scheduled for March 27, by motorbike, from Sicily to Senegal. It is the new adventure of the association “Don Bosco 2000” who will see its president Agostino Sella together with Marco Canzonieri, Cooperante as well as a member of the board of the Association to travel on two wheels 6,260 kilometers of hope, also providing for many dangers.
«From Palermo we will arrive by ship to Genoa, from Genoa to Tangier in Morocco, we will cross the western Sahara, Mauritania and finally Senegal. One of the most difficult traits will certainly be the crossing of western Sahara, that land of anyone who belongs neither Morocco nor Mauritania », explains Canzonieri illustrating the stages of the trip.
The “Don Bosco 2000” association, which is based on Piazza Armerinain the province of Enna, has been dealing with projects related to reception and integration always supported by the Salesian spirit for years. THEN Senegal The Association has been present for several years now also with circular economy projects who see migrants and refugees in the front row who after returning to Italy return to their country of origin with skills and a job.
The motorcycle trip from Sicily to Dakar will allow you to create a new dispensary in the Tambacounda region: «Here Over 50 villages depend on a small dispensary for basic health care that is located within the Don Bosco 2000 headquarters. Many women and mothers often face hours of walking, the road to go is too long and they remain to sleep at the Addicaccio for this reason we are raising funds to build a new larger medical center. Anyone can give a kilometer. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reminds us that all children are entitled to care, but unfortunately it is not so », explains the president of Don Bosco 2000 who several times during the year with other cooperating goes to Senegal to support the local population:” In a world where 26 people have as half of the global population e Europe spends 800 billion for rearmament, there are still regions where you survive less than two dollars a day, Like the one in which we will build the dispensary. The scissor of wealth widens, the poor become more and more poor. How can they tell them not to migrate? Migrating is often the only hope for a dignified life ».
The on the road solidarity that opens at the meeting with the other in the poorest regions on the planet.
