Anna and Maria sit side by side in class while their countries are at war.
Both left everything behind and are now sitting next to each other in an L2 Italian class with the PARI Project. They share a language and the desire to build a bright future, despite everything that has happened in the last year, which has completely changed their lives. While Anna searches for the right words to tell her story, with the help of chalk and a blackboard, the images that tell of her a sporting record achieved before the war scroll in parallel in a box.
During the entertainment, information, and awareness-raising activities managed by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale as part of Project P.A.R.I., promoted by the Abruzzo Region, the local coordinators Guido Ramini and Lisa Di Bello have conceived and implemented various initiatives on the topics of digital citizenship, "on-life," and the fight against discrimination. And they have involved foreign citizens, who attend civic-linguistic training courses in various regional CPIAs, also telling their stories.
The result is these "PARI stories" which in a few seconds convey the richness of life of the protagonists originating from various countries. The focus of the six story concerns the difficulties encountered by migrants in Italy. For Artem (Ukraine), Ali (Pakistan), Oumarou (Mali) and Ousmane (Mali), the greatest difficulties were learning the language, finding a job and the distance from their families.
