(Adnkronos) - A Reggio Emilia la quarta edizione del festival della ONG fondata da Gino Strada ha come tema “le persone”
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00:0030 years of Emergency, 30 years of rights, commitment and care for the weakest, the victims of war.
00:12In Reggio Emilia, the fourth edition of the festival of the ONG, founded by Gino Strada, has as theme the people,
00:19certainly the victims, but also those who have been with Emergency since 1994, the operators, the doctors, the donors.
00:27This year Emergency turns 30 and looking at our story we thought that the true meaning of our story
00:33is that it has allowed many other people, 13 million, to continue their story.
00:38They are people victims of war, victims of poverty, who found a doctor when they needed it.
00:44And then there is the story of all the people who helped us do this job,
00:47so all our humanitarian operators, volunteers, donors, all the people who were interested in the destinies of other people from all over the world.
00:56Next to the festival there is the exhibition Humanity Lovers on the 30th anniversary of Emergency,
01:01in Palazzo dei Musei until 20 October.
01:04A journey through ten words, war, rights, neutrality, equality, utopia, care, people, beauty, culture, choice.
01:14Ten words that convey the identity of Emergency and its commitment, in Italy and in the world.
01:20We operate in Asia, Central Asia and Africa.
01:26We have a history of more than 30 years of work in Afghanistan with the presence of four hospitals
01:34and we have followed this country throughout its long history of war.
01:38In Africa we are mainly in Sudan, Uganda and Sierra Leone.
01:44We know that in the last year and a half Sudan has seen the transformation
01:50from a state that was trying to build a future for its citizens into a state at war,
01:58where everything that had been built in the past years is dissolving and disappearing.
02:05Instead in Sierra Leone we have the only free trauma center,
02:12so it is the only center that meets the needs of the entire population of Sierra Leone.
02:17Three points touched by the festival, the manipulations in the story of the conflicts and how to defend oneself.
02:23When you observe that the dead people in the two factions are illustrated in a different way,
02:31in one case by removing the people and therefore removing the idea that someone was killing those people,
02:37that is a way to manipulate the information and bring people to be more favorable to one side than the other.
02:45The work I do is to try to contrast the manipulation in this way,
02:50noting to the people that each one of us actually has the possibility to realize when he is threatened for the nose.