Visit to the hospital in Palma

It seems easy to be supportive... #1

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How do they laugh in Africa? #2

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Simone, do you want to go to Mozambique? #3

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I am going to Mozambique! But to do what? #4

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The meetings #5

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Where do I start? #6

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Meeting with

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The first contacts with Mozambique #8

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Agenda first mission in Mozambique #9

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First mission: arrival in Maputo #1

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But where am I? #2

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Meeting with Alvim Cossa #3

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Teatro do Oprimido Show #4

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Meeting with the Machaka Association #5

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The Show by the Machaka Group #6

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Manuela Soeiro and the Avenida Theater #7

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Gonçalo Mabunda #8

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Meeting with the Luarte Association #9

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Luarte Show #10

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Maputo - Pemba Journey #11

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Vitor Raposo #12

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Pemba – Palma Trip #13

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Visit to the village of Quionga #14

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Visit to the village of Quirindi #15

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That wonderful beach! #16

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Visit to the village of Pundanhar #17

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The Mamãe Kit #18

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Visit to the hospital in Palma #19

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Return to Italy #20

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The project continues! #1

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How many meetings are we going to have?!? #2

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Agenda second mission in Mozambique #3

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Second mission in Mozambique, arrival at Pemba #4

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Felix Mambucho #5

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Performance Vitor Raposo and the Tambo Tambulani Tambo company #6

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Pemba – Palma Trip #7

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Performances at Palma, on with the casting! No, stop! #8

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Grupo do funzionarios #9

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Performances (and casting) in the village of Pundanhar #10

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Performances (and casting) in the village of Quionga #11

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Selecting the actors for the Italian stages #12

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Are you ready to come to Italy? #13

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The return to Italy and end of the second mission #14

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Preparing for the first training period at Alcatraz #1

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Arrival at the Libera Università di Alcatraz #2

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We begin! #3

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Mario Pirovano #4

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Acting with Mario Pirovano #5

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Arms going up on their own! #6

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A dive into the theatre #7

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Let’s tell a love story! #8

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Being an actor is hard work #9

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What days! #10

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O falso médico! #11

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We all go shopping! #12

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The performance takes shape #13

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We need an ultrasound! #14

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Rome has never been so beautiful! #15

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Second training session: the first day... #1

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The return of the Mozambicans #2

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A tragic day #3

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Memory tests with Mario Pirovano #4

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Rehearsals, rehearsals, rehearsals… and that script in 3 languages… #5

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First reading of the script in Swahili #6

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Just for a change, we rehearse... #7

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That damned video! #8

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In and around Perugia #9

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The last rehearsals #10

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Action! #11

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Changes to the show? Change the title?!? #1

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Confusion in Fatima’s House #2

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Preparation of the stage design #3

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Ready to go (again)? #1

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Arrival at Pemba #2

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At Palma under the palm trees (wet!) #3

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First day of the tour: Mute #4

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Second day of the tour: Pundanhar #5

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Third day of the tour: Quionga #6

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Fourth day of the tour: Palma #7

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Fifth day of the tour: Olumbe #8

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Thank you Mozambique, thank you so much! #9

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The preliminary visits in the villages are over, we are now visiting the Hospital of Palma, or better said, as I find out at the entrance, the Health Center of Palma.

It is a brand-new hospital for emergencies, the operating theater, which has just been finished, is still to be inaugurated, the Casa de Espera, built to host pregnant women, lacks the plaster and the finishing work but the health center is up and running

ospedale-palma-immagine1We meet the director, Dr. Iara. I have become very good  by now and people love being interviewed over here …

She is young, beautiful, newly graduated. By a law of Mozambique,  graduates in medicine must serve an apprenticeship in a rural health center to learn the ropes, in short. She tells us that 66% of the childbirths in the district already takes place in the hospital and it is a good result, there are problems of poor communication among the communities, between Palma and the more remote villages, courses are needed on how to handle infants, how to prevent child deaths , constructive relationships (she uses these very words!) with the curanderos are needed, relationships that take into account the traditions and the  religions, they should be taught how to direct the  patients  towards the most appropriate treatments. Instead of this, they often give a quick treatment  hoping for immediate results but it rarely works.

I ask her what she thinks of the Mamma kit and she replies that it is a very important initiative which is having success considering that it only started  a bit more than a month ago.

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La Casa de Espera. This facility, inside the Health Centre of Palma, is designed to accommodate women of the villages in the last period of pregnancy, giving them food, lodging and all the necessary medical care. It is not yet in use, a doctor from Doctors with Africa Cuamm tells us they want to make it the most appealing possible but it will be difficult to convince the women from the  villages to abandon their families to stay here.

It is another of the challenges the doctors with Africa Cuamm and Eni Foundation are facing in Mozambique.

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It’s night, I have to pack my bags, the long return journey begins.

Hospital in Palma