” “Nairobi) "Between the black and the white, for instance goes on sister Letizia , the mentality is still wrong: white men feel superior, and black men see in them only power and money. So we have to stick together and rediscover such values as friendship, solidarity, listening skills, patience and respect”. Sister Letizia lives in the area exploited by the Italian company Del Monte (well known to critical consumers) to produce bananas and other fruits: "People over there are very poor because they have been deprived of their land and their dignity she states -. 65% are single mothers, most of them are unemployed and enter the death chain, i.e. from prostitution to Aids, to feed their children. The ‘luckiest’ ones work for 2 euros a day”. And when sister Letizia sees the little orphans “dance about with joy” at having received a pair of new shoes, she wonders, as she thinks of "spoilt children in Italy: why do these things still happen in 2007?" Sister Veronica, a Kenyan working in Mombasa, also takes care of HIV-positive children. She is in charge of looking after their diet "because when they take retroviral drugs, if they are malnourished or have a poor diet, they risk getting worse”. (to be continued)” “
