Reconstruction of the school in Kamala, in Indonesia | |
The film footages and photos, of which we have seen dozens, relate only in
part the destructive power of the tidal wave which, on December 26, 2004,
crashed into South East Asia, flinging into the headlines of the news reports
of a terrified and alarmed planet a term which many people had never heard
before: tsunami.
As a whole, the disaster, as we know, had an apocalyptic effect on vast
stretches, and in the eleven countries hit by the wave, the emergency, more
than one year on, is anything but over: some five million people are currently
in serious difficulties, particularly in poor areas, away from the main
international tourist routes, where help has still not arrived.
Finmeccanica, in collaboration with the Comunità di Sant'Egidio, has chosen to
take action here.
The aim is to restore the right to education to the hundreds of pupils in the
Kamala area of Indonesia by helping to rebuild their school and equip it with
furniture, benches and everything needed for teaching to go ahead.
The project, in respect of which Finmeccanica has also asked for concrete
contributions from the people who work for the Group, has tangible and, at the
same time, symbolic value. In short, it is created from bricks and dreams:
because it starts with people, the children, who have been hardest hit by the
catastrophe, but also those on whom the greatest hopes for the future are
pinned.
