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Today, the Sala Tirreno at the Lazio Region was filled by over 500 Roman students in videoconference with Cameroon and the Saharawi Refugee Camps to review the results of Project Digital Bridge.
“Digital Bridge means technological infrastructures and satellite connections, training and didactic support, creation of a development community, digital twinning between African and Italian schools, operative solidarity missions and didactic exchange,” emphasises Mirta Michilli, Director General of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale.
To outline the objectives accomplished by the project, Mirta has chosen to turn the word over to the students and the images of a short video, dense with suggestions and numbers, like the 8000 students and 40 Saharawi teachers involved in didactic programmes.
“The Saharawi have taught me reciprocal respect and the importance of conserving a people’s memory. They have asked me to talk about them with the rest of the world and narrate my experience,” says Almira, a student at the I. Newton Lyceum. “Many people are not aware that 300,000 people are living in such dramatic conditions.” The same words used by Omar Mih, Representative of the Polisario Front in Italy. “We just ask that you speak about us.”
In Cameroon, the authorities in Fontem and four schools are now on-line. “Developing a united world and breaking down the barriers that exist amongst cultures. This is the meaning of this project,” explains Martin Nkafu, President of Lats and Coordinator for the inclusion plan in Cameroon.
