Sandy has spent more than 30 times since he decided in malaria 1999 come and live with your partner, Snowy, a Vilanculos, a natural paradise where the buzz of a mosquito can mean loss of life. The threat is deadly to those who have no ability to fund some pills to buy time; do not take you to the grave. Stated more clearly: infection only kills the poor. Malaria preys especially in Mozambique, where as explained to me months ago, the Spanish ambassador in the country, hear a mosquito from the bed means start a night hunt or a sleepless night. According to Unicef, They die every day in Mozambique 3500 children and is usually the main cause malaria (malaria). The figure is so brutal that little more can be added.
Sandy and Snowy are a pair of white Africans, South African and Kenyan her he, who decided to live a more quiet life for blacks. A white in Africa, luckily saving stereotypes are changing, seems destined to better social positions that offered a fishing village where electricity and running water are chimeras (sociopolitical reasons of historical).
Could some hippies considering them, one of those crazy changing some comfort for a way of understanding life. Life understood as the freedom of who gets in its way a watch on the wrist.
His life began settling in Vilanculos to live in a small swamp, infected mosquitoes that are born of standing water, I said Ana Paula (I spoke of it in the previous post). There, living in appalling conditions, snacks saved from misery and understand that your neighbor can build an environment that enables them to dream of something more than bring the remains of sea life in the networks of its old wooden boats. The sea and the blue ocean was and is the equation of most inhabitants of this corner of the world. Then began a project to involve their neighbors. Personal affections were anchored to a place that was probably step and decided to teach craft skills to their neighbors, to which years they had been approached to share fevers definitely. Magic was born Machilla.
The unfathomable amount has made us somewhat insensitive, with the excuse that domestic help is useless one at the scale of all
Today the couple has created a craft house where they live with their daughters, All dogs and a small army of Mozambicans who have learned to use their hands to create art in the broadest sense of the word. Sandy taught me the little shop that sells handmade products of wood, old soda cans, materials ... "We look after everything has a quality. Any help is good, but our products has quality ", Focus. The have, I attest, and above contributes to 57 artists, with their families, have the opportunity to leave the pit of misery told in the first paragraphs of this post becomes just another story of the thousands of sad stories that flood the planet. The unfathomable amount has made us somewhat insensitive, with the excuse that domestic help is useless one at the scale of all.
Snowy (he) brings me to visit the huge workshop. The woods are accumulated on the floor, there are tools and remains of paintings and fabrics for every corner, but amid the chaos there is order of activities. The polishing wood doors for later; the weavers, with their old sewing machines and their shy smiles turned into laughter at the point of my camera; the painters of fabrics heated in a fire eternal paintings; artisans apply business criteria .... Magic Machilla workers are responsible for their work and they will only buy parts that meet quality standards. The reality is that they help 57 families under the invaluable education that many African NGOs should learn that the money or the aid does not fall from the sky. The doors they build must survive two young men who one day decided to live among one of those places where you can feel the heaven and hell, depends on which line you sitúes. They live on both sides.
For those who want to understand how easy life is lost in this place, I recommend you read a post written months ago, on my first visit to Vilanculos: https://www.viajesalpasado.com/la-corta-vida-del-bebe-de-alberto-y-dulce/
For those who want to know more Machilla Magic project or collaborate with them can enter this web address: http://machillamagic.com/
