Burkina Faso 2011: diario di viaggio dei primi 4 giorni. #12scatti

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:00:34 +0000

As last year, my mother and her partner went to Burkina Faso to visit the current state of the wells built together with the association 12 Scatti per l’Africa, which I have already told you about in this post.

I have to admit I regret not having thought earlier to explain to her how Twitter works, so she could tell the story live as she was experiencing it. So I decided to do it for her.

I relay on Twitter what she tells me via text message :) in real time: the moment she writes to me I write to you, because I like the idea of making you part of this, of giving you a real firsthand account from the field :) I decided to use the hashtag #12scatti as it recalls the name of our association.

Life in the villages of Burkina Faso is not easy at all; my mother and her partner (last year they were four, this year just the two of them) are staying at the nuns’ establishment, which also has a hospital and an internet connection through which my mother managed to send me the travel diary of the first few days and a photo!

I decided to post the travel diary, written jointly, just as it is in its entirety :) with the typos, the perhaps misspelled village names, and the table of wells to visit; complete with Massimo’s irony and my mother Rita’s sensitivity :)

Here and there you will find small notes written by me, simply to explain what is being mentioned :)

Water on nhaima

Burkina Faso 2011: diario di viaggio dei primi 4 giorni. #12scatti