A biography

My grandfather's great-grandfather, Giuseppe, was born in 1830, in Mazara Del Vallo,Trapani.
He lived with his wife Angela and his son Francesco.
During his childhood he didn't go to school but he was a good farmer and he grew up just with his father because his mother was dead by cancer.
As a young adult,Giuseppe joined the Garibaldi's army and  fought to reunite Italy.
Now I don't have too much information about him, but I know that he was a good man who fought for his country and for his people.

Edoardo Di Palma, 2H L.S. B.Croce, Palermo

Oscar Wilde tells stories in Paris (1888-1900)

The lying portrait 

Once upon a time there was a king, who was really rich, probably the richest king ever, who thought he was beautiful, or, better, people made him think he was. 

One day, while he was out for a walk, he met a beggar, who asked him for money. The king told him he only had one of his portrait in his pocket and gave it to the beggar. He gave him a coin with a face on it but the face portrayed didn’t really look like the king. The face was completely different. The beggar, who firstly didn’t realise the one he was talking to was the king, pointed this out to the king and said what nobody ever told him: the truth. The king finds out that he has never been that beautiful as people made him think. The beggar regrets what he has just said and looks for mercy from the king: he was scared the king was going to kill him. 

Contrary to expectations, the king thanks the poor boy for his honesty and for making him realise what the reality was. This shows the importance of telling the truth, that must be put upon everything. 

G. Bella, S. Marchese, V. La Barbera, M. Pierro 
VM, Liceo Scientifico B.Croce, Palermo

The glass eye

A rich man became blind from one eye, so he decided to put a glass eye to replace it. It was made from the most beautiful and bright crystal he found, in fact it was very difficult to recognize. One day, he challenged one of his best friends to distinguish the real eye from the glass one and he guessed without problems. So the man said that the reason was that his friend knew him too well and they decided to ask to an unkown one in the middle of the street. But this man recognized the fake eye too and when the rich man asked him how he could have guessed, he answered that the real eye was the only one in which he saw a bit of pity.

 Andrea Buscemi, Barbara Baiamonte, Ginevra Lupo, Marlene D’Aleo VM

Life in Moria camp

1) What's happening in the Moria camp?

2) what is the Moria camp?

3) Where is the Lesbos camp?

4) What are the children's problems who live in Moria camp?

5) What's the camp healthy service like?

6) How many children live in the Moria camp?

7) What conditions do children live in?

8) Where are they from?

9) How is the therapy organized? 

10) What do the drawing tell us? Who were they made from?

11)  What are the only moments of normalcy for Moria's children?

  

Life in Moria camp is a continue battle for survival. Everything alter in brawls, even for something as simple as a meal. The moria camp is a refugee camp for many asylum seekers. It's localized in Lesbos Island, in Greece. Many children who live there suffer of depression and most of then attempted suicide or serious self-harm. The sewage system is so strained that raw sewage has been known to reach the mattresses where children. In the camp live 9000 migrants, 3000 of then are children. The conditions in refugee camp are inhumane,  in fact people who live there stay into tents or metal containers, more share a single shower and other share a single toilet. They come from war-torn city like Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and they arrive in Moria camp by dinghies. People who work there have organized a therapy with children to 6 from 12 years old and their initiative includes a storytelling activity in wich children create a story with drawings. Children's drawins tell about war scenes or shipwrecks. For example one of then is made by a child who attempted suicide between February and June 2018, and it tells of plane dropping bombs on to homes and on to people, eyes that cry blood, stormy seas with lifeless body too, probably because he had seen it during the trip before arriving at the camp. However children in the Moria camp have moments of normalcy. They can play football in a small play area or watch cartoon on a large screen. Its the only place where they can be kids.

F:Balsamo 3H

In the Isle of Lesbos

In the Moria camp, that's in the Isle of Lesbos (In Greece), there is a horrible situation: the people live in overcrowded dirty tends or metal containers, surrounded by rubbish. The migrants come from some war disrupted countries in the middle east like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, passing through Turkey. The everyday life is transformed into a sort of daily battle for survival and a simple altercation can degenerate in fights or brawls. In addition, many people suffer from depression and the sewage system is so strained that the raw sewage reaches the places where children sleep. The drawings of the children are evidence of the trauma... They are full of lifeless bodies, planes dropping bombs, terrified faces; furthermore, between February and June of this year, 18 kids attempted to commit suicide. There are at least 3.000 minors (9000 asylum seekers in total) in this camp, but it was built and organized for only one-third of this number. Near the camp, there is a clinic of Médicins Sans Frontières, but the health service doesn't work so good because the wounded or the people who have a psychological damage refuse to go to it for shame or fear. It is during one phase of the therapy proposed by this clinic that the children draw the war scenes, the fleeing from their country and shipwrecks. The transfers of the asylum seekers to Athens have already begun but new migratory flows are expected for the winter and they'll bring the population of the camp up to 10.000.

A small playground, built by Salam Aldeen, is the only place where, for a few hours, the children can be real kids, and can live carefree moments of normalcy... without fights, violence, problems, rubbish... G.Licata 3H

In the Moria camp, a refugee camp situated in Lesbos, there is a tragic situation: people stay around the rubbish, they are spread everywhere. 

The children who live there are traumatized after having fled from conflict in their home countries. They are about 3000, they are from Siria, Iraq and they arrive in dinghies from Turkish towns. 

They attempted to hang themselves from a pole or suicide. So the healthy service calls it a giant open-air mental asylum with dire sanitary conditions. We can understand this situation looking at a drawing, made by a child who attempted suicide, where eyes weep blood and the children’s body is floating among the waves.

The only moments of normalcy for Moria’s children get come when they play in an area founded by a Team Humanity, when they play at a small football pitch and when they can watch cartoons.

G.Varvarotto 3H

“The Moria refugee camp”

The Moria refugee camp, in Lesbos, Greece, is located near the capital town of Mytilene. It is home to 9.000 asylum seekers living in desperate sanitary conditions. Migrants live in groups up to 30 people, crammed into tents or metal containers and a lot of children and adolescent have attempted suicide or serious self-harm, since they came to this place. Approximately 3.000 minors live in the Moria camp, place of terrible healthy conditions with a lot of rubbish, scattered everywhere, that makes the air unbreathable and causes many health problems to people who live there. Migrants come from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, but the refusal on the part of European countries to take in asylum seekers arriving in Greece, makes people imprisoned on the island, with no way out.

Moreover, physicians and psychologists say that minors are targeted in the sexual violence and suffer from depression. MSF organized a therapy session with children aged between 6 and 12, who had attempted suicide or were suffering from depression or self-harming. One phase of the therapy involved a storytelling activity in which kids tried to create a story with drawings and words: the children began drawing war scenes or shipwrecks. One of these drawings tell of trauma: stormy seas dotted with terrified faces and lifeless bodies of children floating among the waves. The only moments of normalcy Moria’s children get come to a small play area 200 m from the camp, built by Salam Aldeen, where they can play with inflatable castles or watch a cartoon on a large screen. It is the only place where they can be just kids, without bombs, violence or rapes.

                                                                                                                  Irene Treccarichi, III H

1) What's happening in the Moria camp?

2)What is the Moria camp?

3)Where is the Lesbos camp?

4)What are the children's problems who live in the Moria camp?

5)What's the camp healthy service like?

6)How many children live in the Moria Camp?

7)What conditions do children live in?

8) Where are they from?

9)What di their drawing tell us? Who were they made from?

10)What are the only moments of normalcy foto Moira's children?

11)How is therapy organised?

The article by L.Tondo taken from The Guardian, 3rd October 2018, talks about Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece. 

9.000 asylum seekers live there, but it's a centre designed to keep one third of that number; so their living conditions are really bad. Furthermore migrants who arrive in Moria, coming from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are already traumatized and the conditions in the camp have increased their traum. In fact, they live in groups of 30 people, crammed into tents or metal containers, and there is rubbish scattered everywhere.

There live also 3.000 children, who have serious psychological problems; in fact, most of them attempt suicide and they hurt themselves. Those minors are also targeted in the sexual violence. 

The trauma for them is so strong, so it's not easy for the parents living in Moria to come to terms with the psychological damage of their children, and in a short time they begin to suffer the same depression as their children.

So, the MSF, a particular clinic that's located just outside Moria, organised a therapy session to help those children who have attempted suicide or had depression problems. One phase of the therapy involved a storytelling activity in wich kids tried to create a story with drawings and words. So, their drawings talk about war, shipwrecks and bloody scenes.

The only moments of normalcy Moria's children get come at a small play area 200m from the Camp: here they can feel at ease with the world and not a abandon themselves. M.Salomome 3H