Although there are large problems of language, almost no one speaks French, because it touches me to make people talk about the film, because it explains to children and older persons with what he understood by the projection, because in fact a kind of early debate. Necessary and important is the help of a facilitator so that they can translate what he says white.
The sun is rapidly disappearing behind the valley when we start towards Agonlin Lowe, a village of nell'arrondissement Azowlissè, 15 km from Adjohoun. I know well the village, have already been with the team to form legally two groups of women working as cassava and oil palm. All this happened after a course of literacy in local language (a teacher has taught them to read and write). 
(fires to boil the cassava and oil Palm )
(thanks for the training, fish in hot sauce and corn paste)
To understand better, I put some notes taken at the time, during training, written hastily on my Moleskine: 43 women sitting in the classroom, those stalls in the morning using their own children, quell'innumerevole offspring that now remains outside the building, except for infants, sleeping serenely resting on the mother's back. 
The building that protects us from the sun could be a barn, a warehouse, a school, the office of local administration is certainly the largest room in the village. Now, Mr. Baghidì is training women to improve their group in the economic, financial and managerial.
These women work cassava, corn, soap ever, but working individually are unable to buy tools to speed up and ease the processing and transformation of raw materials into salable in the local market and neighboring. It is difficult for these women to follow the trainer. During the day, do not just run their business, they must look after their children 4-5-6, to prepare a meal for families. I say meal because it is not a lunch or dinner. Here you can eat at once. The preparation is hard, you have to fetch water from the well, we need to go to cut wood in the forest, you need to buy palm nuts, crushed to make olive oil, for cooking and then have to go to the market to buy all the remaining. He lacked a lot of money, repeat these actions every day. They can not afford to cover at home.
Their eyes are tired, will build upon the benches and listen to him with sleepy eyes. 
are not accustomed to: some nursing the infant, who shelling beans, salad who cuts, who think about what still needs to be done. Who knows what goes through my head? 
deem the training useful? Will anything change in their daily lives? But above all, have figured out something? Thinking about the future here is difficult, how do you think about tomorrow if it would not eat today? 
Poor woman, in her hands the beans on his back and his son began to cry. If he takes it and shakes it, he insists, increases in intensity, the group is altered, calls for silence.
The mother is tired, a little girl comes to his aid, will have five years, perhaps the daughter, in each case acts. In his gestures, a daily ritual, takes the baby, looks into his eyes, puts a finger in his mouth and he stops. Back to the silence. The power of a little girl of 5 years!
remain stunned but only for women is the norm, the older children are not surprised at this and more. I keep looking at them, all speak in gun, the dialect. I do not understand and fix their eyes, they speak to me, I try to listen to them.
Agonlin is a lively village, people want to go out from the monotony of his few assets.
The shows come just for awareness, oddly enough from the other villages, the elders here are the first to welcome us and help us to mount the screen (a white cloth), other adults bring tables and chairs, even before the projector will send some pictures in the crowd already above us, before they are all small, alert and curious adults on both sides, the head of the village is took a chair and settled next to me, looks at me and smiles at me, I spare, after the first greetings we can not communicate, here comes my age, who kindly offers to translate. 
Elder is happy to see us and even more to find a white man who is doing these activities. Today, the film will focus on the importance of the birth certificate. More than half of children are deprived certificate does not have an identity, they have a name and date of birth. But this is not essential here, you can live the same even without this package, then we come that we look for practical reasons, such as the examination of fifth grade, where students are required to the certificate, you can not do this without the 'examination and the way to the college is automatically closed. Another problem for those unwilling to study, is to begin an apprenticeship in any workshop of an artisan, in this case you need to start is the birth certificate.
The audience follows the video carefully, it is frightening at times risky, laughs heartily listening to some jokes that frankly baffles me, while I like to begin the discussion, as a stimulus. 
For an hour the lightning light up the leaden sky and decide to continue, but undaunted, found a group like this, it would be sad to stop the uncertainty of a possible shower.
at that moment, a few drops began to fall, not even time to think about doing that which breaks out the flood, a waterfall will open over our heads.
The village is responsive, and everyone gets something that warehouse that had been used to repair the women from the sun, this time we will return for his useful Further, the rain. 
The water rages on the tin roof of the hall, unable to communicate, a guy with a foot from my nose tells me something but nothing, I can not understand a word. The promise of return, a small town like this can not be left out, too beautiful, too hot. Return. Rain permitting.
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