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LUBUMBASHI\u00a0<\/strong>– Red soil and meadows. Trees both big and small, young and light coloured. Signs of a new life that meet us after the machete blows that had struck down the oldest ones utilised to produce charcoal.<\/p>\n

To the kids who play with a ball of rags, held together with a plastic cord, it\u2019s a very distant horizon here.<\/p>\n

In this fertile red earth we want to lay the first stone of what will one day be part of a city. Of what will in the near future be a sports centre and a stage for the passions that have stayed with us since childhood. The Inter Campus centre will be built here, and will be open to everyone \u2013 not just the participants. Open to adults too, and to women. Open to everyone who has dreamed of football, and refused to make war.<\/p>\n

It will rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The land of the gorilla and \u2018Heart of Darkness\u2019 by Joseph Conrad, of John Livingstone and painter Cherie Samba. The land of Mohammed Al\u00ec and George Foreman, the legendary James Brown and BB King concert and much, much more. Mother Earth, lions, elephants and zebra. Dikembe Mutombo and Mazembe. The land of trees, rivers and birds. Okapi and bonobo. The land yearned for by Italians, Belgians, French, Americans, Chinese, Russians for more than 100 years… by the entire population of the world. But it\u2019s also the land of those who started working iron in the IV century, the land of the Lunda and Tshokwe empires, the beautiful wooden statues and Congolese art that has inspired many artists. It\u2019s the land of the music of Papa Wemba, Tabu Ley and Franco and Koffi Olomide, the favourite musician of Samuel Eto’o. The land of the immense Congo River that links so many of the indigenous people of the forests that cross it before it meets the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

The land of so many people who live in harmony with nature. Nature that is unique and special. As if it\u2019s only nature that can give and take life. A land ravaged by war. But we have no interest in war. We\u2019re interested in finding peace and keeping it. Using sport. And education. With responsible investments as Congo is also a land of tourism, of peace and wellbeing. Here, no matter where a foreigner travels he\u2019s greeted as if at home. In the past this meant unscrupulous Europeans were able to ravage the land, and leave very little behind.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re interested in is describing this land that needs to be visited and loved. Tomorrow, today, now. A land that needs to be respected and that goes beyond what we\u2019ve learnt at school… just forget everything you\u2019ve ever been taught about this land. From now on you\u2019ll discover other things. We\u2019re not here to help, we\u2019re here to learn. If you\u2019re not willing to receive you have nothing to give. It\u2019s a land rich of the raw materials which allow us to live life in comfort and pleasure.<\/p>\n

Being here makes you believe racism is just for the primitive mind. It\u2019s not a question of tolerance, as even one person who has no need for anyone else can be racist. Racism means dying young. Today it means living in an Italian cave. Yes, that\u2019s 100% Italian. Where would we be without copper, petrol, gas, coltan and cobalt? We wouldn\u2019t be able to make steel. We wouldn\u2019t be able to have electricity either. We\u2019d be living in a cave, a cave where racists and people who say \u2018I\u2019m not a racist but\u2026\u2019 would take us. It\u2019s not a question of tolerance, but of survival. Without integration we\u2019d have already disappeared. If we do not mix with others, with different cultures and people, then the human race would disintegrate into dust and, were we dust, we\u2019d have a tough, hard life. That\u2019s why racism kills. It\u2019s not a question of tolerance. There\u2019s nothing to tolerate. There\u2019s survival, and surviving in harmony with other races is what can save us. In Italy. And everywhere.<\/p>\n

Leave the door open for Inter Campus and Congo. Allow us into your homes and we\u2019ll take you to a very special world.<\/p>\n

Gabriele Salmi<\/p>\n

www.albaonlus.it<\/p>\n

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