Thanks to all of you who offer, always with kindness, your help as volunteer on the different tasks organised by the Charity. Carlos Jambrina, Santi, Marta Dakli, Andrea, Marino, Aida, chariot, Carolina, Emanuela, Juan and many others.
Our dream is to be able to accommodate volunteers from different countries and backgrounds, since the project is seated up in a way that everyone will be able to collaborate and help. At the moment this is not possible because we don’t have the money. Last April we received our first volunteer (a way to say), and this has been one of the best experience ever since we started.
Emanuela Straccia. Una chica italiana que ha dejado huella en Bayahibe por su belleza y simpatía, y en la Fundación por su sensibilidad, su buena disposición y por tratarse de la Primera Voluntaria Internacional de este proyecto en crecimiento.
Let’s focus now in what is important and doesn’t have anything to do with the money. We are talking about an exchange of experience between two human beings sensible in other people’s misfortunes, between two people implicated with themselves and the rest of the world, between two people who have the same dream of living in a better world and being part of the changing.
When I first thought about a net of volunteers, I new it was going to be part of my development as a person and that I was going to learn a lot. I thought I had to ask for advice, to accept suggestions and on doing this I would improve myself in a daily basis. The reality has gone beyond my expectations. It has been by far the best experience I had since I started with this project and it has been also the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Thank you very much Emanuela Straccia! Sai che dal giorno in qui sei scesa da quella gua gua, ci hai rubato un pezzo di cuore, tanto a me come a la Fondazione, che alla fine siamo la stessa cosa e tu sei parte di noi per sempre^
Maria José Martí
Director and Founder
Hambrientos de Todo
Emanuela Straccia I Voluntaria
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Monday 31 August 2009^
Samantha Rampini has been our second volunteer. She has been with us almost the whole month of August and she has made a difference in the Charity.
She is an independent person, enterprising, creative, with motivation, with the maturity of a good professional, and pragmatic. She has contributed on the Library’s project, in our first Medical Centre and with the Family Pepen ’s case. Despite all the difficulties, every of those projects has been a success.
Además nos ha dejado una anécdota muy divertida que con su permiso os relataré.
Mientras nos encontrábamos en pleno operativo médico, Samantha se desplazó al hospital donde Betania luchaba contra terribles dolores a la espera de ser operada. Consiguió el quinto donante que fue el más difícil ya que habiamos agotado prácticamente todos los candidatos. Ese día ni ella ni yo comimos hasta tarde y hacía dos días que trabajábamos intensamente y muchas horas por lo que estabamos muy cansadas. Cuando yo estaba llegando al hospital, la llamé por teléfono para saber en que parte se encontraba. Ella contestó: - Corre, ven, estoy muy mal.
Yo pensé lo peor. Pensé que Betania había muerto. Volví a llamar. Nadie contestó. Llamé de nuevo. Contestó el donante y me pareció oir a Samantha llorando. Mi corazón empezó a latir fuertemente, entré corriendo al hospital, subí dos plantas casi sin respirar, busqué por todas partes y finalmente los encontré.
Con el corazón a mil entré en la habitación donde se extrae la sangre para los análisis y descubrí a Isaias, el quinto donante, medio sentado en una camilla aun unido por un tubo a la bolsa de sangre y a Samantha que hasta minutos antes sujetaba su mano, sentada en una silla, casi desmayada, pálida y sin poder articular una palabra.
No se si fueron los nervios o lo cómico de la situación, pero estallé en un ataque de risa. Si, lo sé, Sam no estaba bien, pero yo pensaba que Betania había muerto! por lo que al encontrarme ¨solo¨ con un desmayo, toda la tensión y el cansancio acumulados se convirtieron en una estruendosa risa a la que, una vez pasado el susto, todos se unieron.
Thanks Samantha for your great help and for organizing a raffle to collect money. Your job in such a short period of time has been amazing. We hope to see you soon again.
Maria José Marti
Emanuela Straccia I Voluntaria
Samantha Rampini Voluntaria