We name "It" by Marina

What is IT? The reality that don't pass on the TV, newspapers or media in general / The faces behind the statistics and the History / The reality you do not meet outside Africa

Why should we give IT to public? The public are persons like us and like we met in Africa. Bring persons to persons is a way to create a better world, because we give to them the opportunity to get to know each other, showing that their differences are not so big and even if they are big they are not reason enough to promote a detachment. With our travel to Africa we gave them the opportunity to know us also and show that we are not just white and rich people, tourists from Europe. We made sure that some negative stereotypes were destroyed by our behavior and attitude. Now, it is the time to show in Europe that Africans are not just black and poor people, victims from Africa history. Now it is time to bring another point of view to our colleagues, neighbors, to the strangers on the streets. It is time to break down these old stereotypes that keep surviving over the years.

We will not bring the people, because we cannot, but we will bring their histories, their conversations, what they taught us, from what and how do they live. 

I believe that the fact that we help to interconnect cultures creates empathy and space for understanding ourselves while citizens of a country, a continent, a world. 

Bring this message, in this way, is our biggest weapon to fight against inequalities and start to change and open minds.

What does public gain from you and what do you gain from public? First, the gain knowledge. Knowledge that is not in the books and knowledge that nobody else can give them. Nobody can give them this knowledge because what we saw is unique: facts can be related in the same way, but experiences are always different from person to person. However, this question produces another questions: Why it is important explain politics to the European kids? It is important because, actually, they don't need to know political concepts or political history from Africa continent, but they SHOULD know what are the inequalities present between their countries and African countries and WHY the inequalities are there. Why should we explain African tradition or religion for an old lady? Because most of them have conservative minds that needs to be confronted with other conservative realities, and there is a need to explain that traditions are different and all of them are important. Why should we talk with a "normal standard person" with a job, house, car and kids? To explain them how lucky they are to have the life that they have, and show them how lucky they are to born in a rich part of the world. 

We don't want to explain nothing in particular because we don't own the truth, we also don't want make judgments or attribute guilt, what we want is show them the other angle of the world.