MALI 2017 - mission in the land of DOGON people
Travel notes - Dogon Project - mission 2017
As always happens, when we dedicate ourselves with a voluntary approach to helping those immersed in a difficult life of deprivation and suffering, we receive much more than what we give. It is received in the form of smiles, looks, rough skin aged by the sun and fatigue, in intense and sincere feelings, in some ways primordial, expressed without understanding or saying a single word. The journey, especially in Africa, like all real journeys, is an introspective pause of confrontation with ourselves, of confrontation with cultures completely different from ours, but which still have within them a luminous seed of purity in living and socializing that we, in organized civilization of consumption, we sacrificed on the altar of material desire and individualism. In short, I travel as a sort of mirror on which to reflect our doubts and shortcomings. I returned from the trip to Mali, with the Dogon Project, enriched with a better knowledge of myself, of my privilege as a modern and evolved man with all his limitations and above all his contradictions.
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