A bridge of friendship between Sardinia and Africa

The boys of the Lithui village , in Tanzania , wore the shirts of Seulo and Gavoi so that the teams of the children of the village could compete in football. The shirts were delivered by volunteer Pierpaolo Murgia from Seulo.
Seulo beat Taloro (Gavoi) 1-0 at the end of the match, a celebration celebrated on the ideal bridge that unites Sardinia to Tanzania in the solidarity project.
"The Mission of Lithui" was born in 2023 thanks to two volunteers from Gavoi, Valeria Sanna and Enzo Cugusi who accepted the invitation to Lhitui that the priest Don Deogratias had addressed to them.
Volunteer Valeria Sanna says: «In Lithui there is no water, not even electricity and much more and yet its population faces even the heaviest difficulties with a smile. A potential of the village: in its territory there is a large hospital built by German Benedictine monks in 1936. In 1981, after a flood, it was abandoned and the inhabitants of the area moved further downstream. In 2010 the hospital was reopened but is still in precarious conditions today. Our challenge, shared with the Sermig volunteers of Turin, was to bring water to Lithui and its hospital and to create the works necessary to guarantee primary care to the population."
Pierpaolo Murgia is in the village these days as a volunteer to coordinate the excavation work that will bring water to the Santa Elisabetta hospital in Lithui. «This trip to a small village on the outskirts of Africa – he explains – ended up turning out to be a journey into the feelings and memories of my childhood, due to the infinite similarities that I discovered between this village and our villages in the Sardinian hinterland of fifty years ago , and even further in time, we too, like these children, went barefoot on the clay, among the few essential things that we didn't lack, we knew how to enjoy little things, like playing football."