Tanzania: The church’s commitment to building wells and fighting drought

Federico Piana- Ciudad Del Vaticano

Abundant and unexpected fruits. “Every thanks Proventins. I had nothing to do, I was just a tool in the hands of God. ” When he tries to evaluate a project that only begins by chance, he realizes without the Tirinzio Basur that he does not know where he begins to recount the amount of small and large successes that he was able to collect within a few years. Eleven wells created from nothing in one of the poorest countries in Eastern Africa, where the population cannot even 40 % of the population can reach drinking water, this is not a small thing.

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Residents of the most remote villages, which he launched from thirst, chronic anger and infertility to the earth, talks about a miracle, but he still remembers how everything started from the thinnest and night of torment after visiting the distant and forgotten desert region: a difficult and exhausting work under the burning sun for a few cents per day. An endless pain. ”

Silence and surprise

It was like November 2021, and the priest, a member of the missionaries from the precious blood, said to the media in the Vatican that he did not want to stop there, but he preferred to continue even that remote group of houses without water or electricity: “On the trip to the San Jasbar Hospital, I managed to do so through our gathering and two hours in the car, none of the people who wanted to announce a word. There was silence and confusion for what we saw. ”

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The next night, Father Tirinzio spent meditation, prayer and crying: “I asked myself: Why did God want this path to follow up? What is the project that has been booked for me? In the end, he decided to include the story of his adventure in a chapter of a book he was writing, and he returned in Italy, participating in his experiences in Tanzania with societies and schools, and collecting donations to build what seemed to be a useful, necessary and urgent work: a well. “Praise be to God, we have reached the necessary amount in a short time and in August of that year we can open it in the small mkiwa village.”

Confession and appreciation

Before the Vatican media, which has already informed its history from the beginning, in the wake of each step of the project’s step called “Water in the Desert”, the priest summoned when the leaders of this community gave him the head of the village as a tangible show of gratitude and appreciation: “There were parties that lasted for about an hour, where the tribe gave me, Cape, Cape, Cape, Cape, Cape, Cape, eggs, and eggs, and eggs. The symbols are not only for driving, but also slogans that indicate how the president takes care of his people.

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Since then, it has not stopped without Tirinzio. It has already opened 11 wells: The amazing mouth helped him publish his stories, which created two books that have supported their productive works of the works that the national government has not been able to do yet. “These texts have also been promoted in many schools that adopted my project by supporting it in various ways. Once the money raised, I coordinated with a collective head in Tanzania, which indicated, from time to time, as the water had to take.

ContextHard

Some of these wells were built in critical social contexts, such as the village of Amal, which hosts more than twenty years for an orphan’s orphan children, or in the very poor areas where the local bishops entrusted the pastoral care of the missionaries of precious blood. For example, one of them is on the border with Rwanda, where there are still many refugees from the 1994 genocide, while there is the other on the slopes of Jabal Kilimanaro, where the poor village danced and sang throughout the night to open the well that changed their lives. “Water, for these people, changes the rules of the game. Not only are they allowed to drink regularly, but also to develop their lands and satisfy the thirst of their animals. Something seems clear to us, but for them at all. ”

Sin border

Don Tirinzio, now after he became a sponsor in Barry after being a boycott director of the group, of course he has no intention to throw a boat overe. I will continue to promote my project for Italy, and they will talk to those who call me. ” These are also concrete signs that love does not know the borders.