Moranera have
always tried to affirm a message of integration and solidarity for
people in the south of the world and they express it in their music,
lyrics and through concrete actions.
That’s why we
are a no-profit Association and that’s why we decide to devolve
1/5 of what we raise from selling our first Cd “Mediterraneo”
to the Association.
It’s not been a fortuitous choice. Manuel
Rumi Association is devoted in building water wells in Africa.
“water” is life for people who live in such extreme
condition. And it’s a great satisfaction for us to know
that one fifth of our CD becomes water. It’s for us a debt
of gratitude and respect for African people from whom we received
such a huge cultural patrimony.
Manuel Rumi Association have built 46 wells in
14 years of activity. They are about to build a well 200mt away
from where the Manuel’s lifeless body has been found.
We felt his father satisfaction
when he told us : “I’ve been waiting for this news
for 14 years”.
Then, he pointed to the top of a well in a photograph where it was
written MANUEL 2000 and said: ” …a tuareg wrote with
his finger my Manuel name on top of the well before then the clay
got solid”. The simple and poetic action reminded Manuel and
thanked Mario.
The Association is devoted to a
very important activity in schools. With the beautiful pictures
that Mario takes during his expedition, they produce several documentary
and show them to the students. That’s a very aware and clever
way to excite youth’s sensitivity and culture who is daily
used to very different images.
Manuel
Rumi, besides giving us some photographs for realising this web
site, allowed us to publish a verybeautiful tale
by his book “Manuel il Mio Tuareg”. From the book they
got the script of the theatre show “Aman Iman, L’ acqua
è la vita”.