Just 25 cents are enough to feed a child for a day. A coffee, a simple coffee, can guarantee a week of life. This was the starting point of the forum “Gaza and surrounding areas”, held today in Tergu.

Luigi Esposito, of the Rotary Club Sassari Nord, explained the importance of Plumpy Nut and proposed asking councilors of all the municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Sassari to give up one week of their attendance fees.

On December 18, in Sassari, a musical event will be held in support of the children of Gaza. Daniela Falconi, president of ANCI Sardegna, accepted the challenge and raised it, recalling that, thanks to the first forum in which Hiba Alif took part, councilor of the Municipality of Ravenna with a delegation for peace, a proposal was sent to the Municipalities to set up a Peace Observatory, which can also be run by an opposition councilor. Because peace, in the end, has a single flag.

Pier Giorgio Pinna, of the Stop the war committee, stressed the need to keep attention alive and the courage of journalists in telling the horror of war. He recalled, bitterly, that many newspapers have interests in companies that produce weapons.

Father Stefano Gennari recalled the words of Pope Francis and his immense encyclical Laudato si’, also evoking Saint Francis of Assisi and his love for all creatures.

Assisi is the destination of the Carta di S’Aspru, as recalled by Paolo Bellotti, president of the association Intrecci Culturali, who strongly wanted the drafting of a charter against all wars.

Giuseppe Fresu, provincial president of ACLI, emphasized the secular nature of the speeches and the importance of looking carefully at Israel, which – in fact – cannot be considered a democratic State.

Father Salvatore Morittu’s conclusions were intense, deep, powerful. Starting from that Jerusalem that should be the cradle of peace and the destination of dialogue among peoples, he retraced, through vivid memories, his relationship with Jerusalem, with Jews and with Palestinians.

“There should be a single State with two peoples,” he said. He then recalled the importance of not letting our guard down in the face of atrocities and of continuing to look firmly to the Palestinian people, held hostage inside a State that is not democratic at all. He added that small things make the world great, and that even small defeats help reflection.

Saint Francis, when he went to the Holy Land to meet the sultan, achieved nothing concrete, but he went with the conviction that it was necessary to talk. From that “nothing” – Father Morittu said – a different noise can be born, one that runs through the curves of life.

The event, included in the Ammajare Festival, saw the participation of several mayors from the area and was organized by Intrecci Culturali and the Michele Giua Association with its very young president Matteo Serra who, in his greetings, wanted to underline the importance and the need for this event.

Luca Ruzzu, mayor of Tergu, showed that from small communities – like his, like Siligo or Ittiri (mayors Giovanni Porcheddu and Antonio Sau were also present) – one can start from that “nothing” and turn it into “something”.

That “something” was also taken up by Gianfranco Satta, regional councilor for Agriculture, and by Maria Giovanna Delrio, councilor of the Metropolitan City of Sassari.

From villages to cities, up to the Region: it is a road full of curves, but – as the great architect Gaudí reminded – God drew mountains, hills, seas and lakes, and to do so he used curves.

The curves of Saint Francis, those of the children of Gaza, those of those who signed the Carta di S’Aspru, and those of those who will leave at least 25 cents to allow a child in Gaza to survive injustice.

So that he too can draw, among the curves of creation, a future where it is possible to dream in color.

The photos were taken by Rossana Piredda and Luciano Cocco for intrecci culturali.