Books, ‘The earth seen from here, an airplane diary of a traveling aid worker’

The volume brings together the notes that, over 20 years, Paola Boncompagni collected during her business trips for development cooperation, during missions in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Central America and South East Asia. The book “The earth seen from here, aerial diary of a cooperating narrator”, published by Utet Libri, will be presented tomorrow at the Eli bookshop in Rome. Luisa Morgantini, former vice president of the European Parliament and human rights activist, the actor and writer Giuseppe Cederna, Gianluca Falcitelli, of the NGO Cisp, and Carlo Ciavoni, head of Mondo Solidale, Repubblica.it, will talk with the author Paola Boncompagni. . “” I walked on lands where unspeakable violence has been inflicted, where people survive in complete decay. I have witnessed the most shocking human misery. Things that, I often find myself thinking, everyone should see at least once in their life. “This is an excerpt from the book that is an ‘Air Diary’ because it brings together the notes that Paola Boncompagni collected during the 20 years his business trips for Development Cooperation, during missions in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Central America and Southeast Asia The entire text of the book was written on board an airplane, between a mission and another. “The earth seen from here” thus offers us a look at the cooperation programs and their implications seen from within, from the street children of Guatemala City, through the marginalization of young people in the Caribbean islands to the cinema educational project projected by a traveling caravan in the remote rural areas of Ethiopia. And again the safeguarding of the historical and artistic heritage used as an instrument of cooperation in the occupied territories of the West Bank, in Cambodia and in the ancient cities ty of the Mauritanian desert. Each chapter dedicated to a cooperative journey. Dozens of missions interspersed with long hours locked in the cabin of an airplane, which soon became the ideal place to collect impressions and thoughts that every take-off invariably carries with it.