ELECTRIFICATION IN AFRICA, THE AIMS

Everyone of us lives a relatively quiet life, without getting the full consciousness of the several comforts we  enjoy of. Sometimes  themes such as hunger in the world or children exploitation  seem to belong to realities so different from ours, that probably we can realize their meaning  only when we are personally involved.

Our frenetic and stressing western  way of life doesn’t leave much room for afterwork and afterschool activities involving people in and making them aware of humanitarian projects; luckily in the world there are still people working constantly and tenaciously in pursuit of difficult  and demanding aims and obtaining excellent results even far from mass media and their phenomena.

It’s with this spirit that the class IV L of Liceo Scientifico Ettore Majorana, Orvieto, Terni, Italy has welcomed enthusiastically the project of electrifying the Gikomero High School, in the district of Gasabo, Rwanda.

The project covers the last 3 years of course and started in the school year 2004/2005 and is still under realization; its planning and accomplishment are quite complex .

The first phase of this activity mainly consisted of funds collection through to the organization of events and activities.

The further phase involving the current school year consists also of the choice of the technological equipment (a photovoltaic kit, the internet connaction and pcs) and of the contact with the associations and companies, which could help them.

As one of the coordinators at the project, the teacher Rosa Maria Pistelli, affirms << students objective goes beyond practical purposes: its purpose is rather a personal investment with responsibility, and especially a greater consciousness of the different realities we live, in through a social education aiming concrete things>>. Every students is deeply engaged in the project, giving proof that by working hard one can make  utopia become real, well beyond a simple school work.

This is the invitation of Majorana’s students to the world:  they believe in it and they are disposed to get and keep in touch with other schools taking part in the NEOS Project and disposed to contribute with funds.

The truth is that a man’s strength, and even a class’ strength is not enough to eliminate the several problems of the world, but any great enterprise needs solid foundations built by small things, step by step.