A PEACE MARCH

A peace march was held in Palermo on Friday the 14 of February. This march was a way to promote peace and all the catholic schools of Palermo, including CEI, have taken part. The march concluded with the arrival at P.zza San Francesco d’Assisi ,where inside the church of San Francesco, we had a moment of prayer and there were banners and billboards that characterised the different school and on these were written messages of peace.
The march wanted to emphasise the importance of peace and the uselessness of war which is an instrument of death and destruction.
Peace is one of the fundamental aspirations of life, without which the life of the man becomes a hell, therefore we must try to achieve this scope so that we are all brothers and sisters of one family.

Alice Prinzi
Andrea Mineo
III Eur B
CEI

" No to the misses "
105 victims of a massacre in Nigeria.

An unhappy phrase of a journalist about " the happiness " that Muhammad would achieve if married one of the 90 competition 's misses has caused fights between Muskmelons and Christians on the Kaiun 's streets : 105 died in 48 hours .
The journalists are very sorry about the wrong article's interpretation published by their newspaper , but they are condemned to fatty ( Islamic death ) .
Kaiun has been the violence's scene , Muskmelons have burnt parked cars near the main mosque that is less far 1 km from the hotel where the contestants to become Miss world are accommodated .
This competition has been organised also for Safe , one of condemned women to lapidarian for adultery , examples of daily life in these countries , but they are unimaginable in countries as ours .
The end of this competition has seen to win a miss of a muskmelon country as Turkey , is it a sign of possible approach between East-West ?

Ruggero Leone
Francesco Di Fatta
3 europeo B
CEI

Death Penalty

Discussing the moral valus of Death Penalty,we studied , in french class "le dernier jour d' un condamné" by Victor Hugo.then we saw a play in which a man read some extracts of his book.A few weeks later, he came to visit us to tell us why he chose this book and his work on it .
He spoke to us about his fight againstcapital punishement which is stilltrue and to prove that Victor Hugo,with this book has saved some inmates.So, if this writer did that a century ago why don't we do it again.In french lessons, we understood thanks to this meeting that killing convicts is not necessary to stop crimes and infaction.

Sibillotte (sibillotte@wanadoo.fr)

While unlocking the bedroom door, which I have rented after a tiring and stressful day, the only thing I wanted was a good night sleep. I was in England, because getting away from country, in war at the time, was the only way to survive. My wife and my children were downstairs, in a room a little bigger than mine.

What was waiting for me? I opened the door and I found a small compartment with a bed, a window, a lamp and nothing else. Next to it I found a bathroom with a water closet, a basin and a tub. I have never been very rich, but as I had to leave in a hurry, I only brought two pairs of trousers, some shirts and coats and all the money I had with me.

I went to bed, thinking about my life, knowing the next day would be hard: I would get up very early to look for work and maybe I would make a deal with a friend of mine and, who knows, I could become a shoe cleaner. Maybe a job would not be enough, but I was ready for anything... At least I still was with my beloved ones.

Pedro Gonzaga 7º-A
EESCJ

Macondo

MACONDO IS A COOPERATIVE OF MEN AND WOMEN PROMOTING, IN THE CITY OF PALERMO, A FAIR AND JOINTLY LIABLE TRADE AND EXSPERIMETING THE TASTE AND THE EFFORTS OF THEIR OWN WISHES.
WE WORK WITH MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE USUALLY EXCLUDED FROM THE COMMERCIAL TRACKS OF THE RICHEST COUNTRIES.WE PROMATE PROJECT OF DEVELOPMENT, WE IMPORTANT THEIR FOOD (BYOLOGICAL) AND THEIR HANDMADA PRODUCTS.
WE HAVE A LOT OF DREAMS, A LOT OF WHISHES AND WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THEM AND CARRY THEM OUT WITH OTHER TRIP FELLOWS, WE ARE TRYING TO CREATE NEW OPPORTUNIES OF WORK FOR OURSELVES AND FOR THE OTHERS.

Danila Giambona
2c CEI Palermo

Meet Emergency

Last november all the student of the third year of scuola media took part to a very interesting meeting with a group of volunteers of Emergency.
Emergency is a associaton founded in Milan in 1994 to give medical-surgical assistante to the victimis of the war and particolarly to the victimis of landimines. The build hospital in the war areas all aroand the world. During these last eigth year more than 300.000 people have been assisted in these hospital in kurdistan, Afghanistan, Sierna Leone etc.

Contemparary the E.volonteers develop a compaign of sensibilazation and information all over italy to collect money and to build a culture of peace and social solidarity.
During this meeting we have understood that no war can solve the people’s problems but in only adds others and more serious.
For this rearon we have signed against the war in Iraq.
The e-mail address of Emergency is www.Emergency.it

Danila Giambona
Marco Acerno
Giovanni Raineri
CEI

Amina’ s story

This story is based on a true story: Amina’ s story…
It all began in Africa, where women are exploited everyday.
Millions of them die for unjust reasons.
Fortunatelly there are many associations which are concerned with these cases; one of this is Amnesty International, which tries to stop these situations from continuing.
Amina is an young African women married to a man of her country. But one day she was raped by another young man and found out that she was pregnant. Because of this she was arrested and she was condemned to be lapidated.At the end luckily Amnesty International interfered to save Amina, so she is returned to her normal life.
We think that liberty is the most important value that nobody can distroy,especially in a evoluted society as ours… unfortunatelly there are many of these cases,but we always hope in the respecte of the human values.and above all in the respect for weak people!

Alessia Milella
Giuliana Imburgia
III EUR B, CEI

Some years ago, our school granted a room to LEGA MISSIONARIA STUDENTI(LMS)and from then on a LMS’s seat was born also in Palermo.This organization, at national level, is a Lilliput’s branch(an association similar to EMERGENCY)and organise voluntary work not only in its own country but also in Bosnia, Perù and Romania.The LMS’s boys and girls organise and take part in these voluntary activities especially in the summer(when there is no school).One can choose to work in hospitals(where the patients are almost in an abandoned state), work in a school as teachers with children(and teach them English and Italian)or work in a construction site to help the workers there.

Now Romania wants to enter the European Union and to do this the country must reach a sufficient development level;so the Romanian government is cutting off expenses for invalidity pensions and the funds for hospitals where the LMS work is concentrated.

In this way the situation, which is already critical, for many families and children who have had stable relationships with the LMS for years is going to get worse and many patients, already abandoned in public hospitals, risk being chased away even in critical conditions.So, only private clinics(reserved to well-to-do people)will succeed in saving themselves, while“the other People”will continue to fight against his condition.All money which is not destined to welfare, will be destined to the country’s industrial development.We mustn’t forget that Romania is returning from a long and disastrous dictatorship...

Alessia Vercio
Rina Dalle Nogare
Otilia Sammartino
CEI

WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP THESE COUNTRIES???

-WE CAN SEND MEDICINES WHICH COULD BE VERY USEFUL LIKE: ANTIBIOTICS, FISIOLOGIC SOLUTIONS, GAUZES, ANTISTAMINICS, ANTIDOLORIFICS...

-WE CAN ALSO SEND TOYS FOR CHILDREN...!
Thank you for your attention!Peace and love!
IF YOU WANT TO SEND MEDICINES AND TOYS YOU CAN DO IT

Alessia Vercio
Rina Dalle Nogare
Otilia Sammartino
CEI

Life is not easy for brain disabled people. In Portugal, they don’t have means to make their life easier. If they want to go to a party or out for dinner they need to know it in advance so that they can manage to go. As an example: if they are in wheel-chair they need ramps.
Disabled people suffer a lot with those staring at them, we must have a lot of respect for them. All we can do for them is never enough. It is society who should promote campaigns to teach people how to behave with disabled ones.

Pedro Gonzaga
7º A
EESC

In the context of the “Crea” project, “Multicultural in Italy” many students in the third year of “Scuola media” created a poster where they talked about South Korea, in general, but in particular they talked about some curiosities that it is characterised by. They talked about the typical Korean way of writing, very similar to the Chinese but completely different from the Italian, just as they try to write their name in Korean. They inserted some Korean proverbs that are most known and they found them on a web site, already translated in Italian and some of them explaining the meaning. Finally, they reproduced that the Korean flag explaining the meaning of each colour, why the lines are sometimes whole and sometimes broken in pieces and the white field in the background.

Carolina Tutone
Federica Lo Bello-III B
CEI-Palermo

Interview in Ecuador

We are here and we are interviewing an interesting person, Fabiola an ecuadorian girl, who to help her family looking a work and for happiness decided to came to Italy, to find all this. For seven years she has lived with her dougther in a street near the Policlinic hospital, centre of all the palermitan extra-communitarians. She sites down very well, helped by her friends' love. She likes Palermo very much even if at first she was alone and disorientated in this city so different from Quenqa (her city). Later she founded a work that aqllowed her to live quietly. She would to go back to her nation but only a bit holiday to find again her family. The most important festivities of her native city are two; the first is when all the Ecuadorians inhabitants meet in the capital ( Quito), dressed with traditional clothes to celebrate the national union; the second is the Carneval when population dressed with the strangest clothes during the latin-american dancing. Just the traditional clothes are some of the many uses and costumes still rooted and the daily life. In Quito the life is peaceful; here are cattle brading to export meet in occident.

Carolina Tutone
Federica Lo Bello
Jesuela Guadalupi- 3B
CEI-Palermo