PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA: If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. Its the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four […]
Friday 6:30 in the morning. There has been thunders during the night. I am awake but keep my eyes closed to try hold to the last moments of sleep. It is raining and the air is pleasantly cool. I sit up, look outside of the window. The familiar garden of the Swedish Camp. House N. 2 in front of us. The badmington court has already some paddles. Rain drops draw circles in them. We eat […]
Co Anh (teacher Anh) is my Vietnamese language teacher. She is a very patient lady. She usually comes to my office. Twice a week for an hour. I have made good progresses under her supervision, though I do not put enough time and effort in my homeworks. But, as I said, she is patient and every time we have a lesson she does not ask me whether I did my homeworks or not. As I […]
Werde ry is working together with the local NGO Mlup Baitong since 2003. The Green Garden project is implemented in the province of Kampong Thom to improve the livelihood and living environments through home gardening activities. The project reaches 2073 people in 19 villages. Experienced key farmers trained by a previous project by Werde, are now teaching other farmers about home gardening techniques. After two years of the project implementation many farmers have increased the […]
Dear all, we are close to the end of the year and the fourth year of work for Werde ry in the province of Kampong Thom (Cambodia). In these years we have been implementing two projects in cooperation with Cambodian NGOs. The Civil Society and Local Governance project is implemented with four NGOs partners and has developed a model to organise the participation of citizens with Commune Councils. This is the final year of the […]
Karissimi, Ipotesi: dicono che il sesto senso un ce l’ha oppure non ce l’ha. Dato che non esiste una teoria scientifica che mi possa aiutare a provare l’ ipotesi di inizio frase. Questa sera alle ore 17:45 ora di Ha Noi ero nel mio ufficio a fare dello straordinario. Leggevo degli appunti che mi ero scritto per prepararmi ad un importante appuntamento telefonico per le ore 19:00 (ora locale), un colloquio di lavoro con Londra. […]
I listen in my earphones this Italian song. Outside the windows the roofs of Hanoi. Ten of thousands of houses and homes with their daily lives, their happiness and their sadnesses. Lorenzo, in the meantime he is singing his ‘Mi fido di te’, and yet yesterday his life changed and is now missing, all of a sudden, such a big part of it. Yet his song tells a story of some years ago and I […]
When was last time I wrote a letter? A real letter. A letter written on a piece of white paper, with a pen or a pencil. Actually I do not remember. A friend write us here in Hanoi and we got the letter yesterday via Lausanne – Helsinki – Hong Kong – Hanoi. I am sure that emails do the same. Once the ‘send’ button is clicked they also travel around the world, passing through […]
Ciao Antonio. Olga, Venla, la zia Katja e lo zio Nanno, tutti noi ti mandiamo tanti auguri da Hanoi in Vietnam. Ecco la nostra sorpresa.
This was our route for the summer holidays in August. As often happen holidays have been full of people. This year, however, even more so because of my doctoral defense and the baptize of Venla. All of which is now available in these couple of sideshows. More words later on…