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 The cover of Newsletter N.2
Kenya can't solve it alone
Last developments in Kenya
 Local initiatives
Have you taken the ethnic route?
The political crisis in Kenya
Let's drink the Tea of Peace
African Pride
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PEACE CULTURE - LOCAL INITIATIVES
Simone Coppari is an Italian musician living in Filottrano.
During a journey to Kenya he came across the “God Our Father Children’s Home“, an orphanage in Watamu, a little town on the Kenyan coast. That was the beginning of a wonderful story.
Simone and his girlfriend Sabrina sympathized with the children of the orphanage and they decided to come back to Kenya very soon. That’s what happened. They went back there several other times, last of which was in October 2007.
The orphanage is going to build new rooms and a new kitchen for its little guests and money is needed. Simone had an idea: “When I will be back in Italy I can organize a music show together with my friends to raise up some money for the orphanage!”.
That’s how Simone, Sabrina, his band “Chopas & The Doctor” and all the friends of the Filottrano City Rockers cultural movement got out with “Watamu Express”, a music and theatre show which took place on the 4th of January 2008. During the “Chopas & The Doctor” performance, (the band was placed in the left side of the stage), improvised actors, jugglers, poets, Filottrano City Rockers
members or simple friends of the initiative were acting in the centre of the stage in which the scene painting represented a bar full of people of all races and countries. Symbolically as the show was going on, the “BAR” sign was renamed several times in different languages: Italian, Bosnian, Arabic, to symbolize the union and the solidarity of the entire humanity.
All the people there felt wonderful that night, thanks to Simone’s music and his simple great idea. At the end of the show it seemed the public never wanted to stop clapping hands.
It was a success. Around 1.400 euro were raised to help Watamu children smile!
 
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Newsletter N.1 English Version