Our meeting with Enayatollah Akbari

Saturday, February 12, the boys and girls hosted by Progetto Aquilone had a meeting in Turin with Enayatollah Akbari, the young afghan whose story is narrated in a now very famous italian book, entitled Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli (There are crocodiles in the sea). We asked the young boys and girls to write their impressions. They were all really happy to know him, also because, as Bariolay said, “He is also an afghan!”.

Razma said that Enayat encouraged them to study hard, in order to become good citizens who can contribute to their country. Madina, on the other hand, stressed the fact that Enayat is a very courageos guy and that they were really happy to meet him. Ramin was really moved by the story of how Enayat's mother decided to leave him alone in Quetta, Pakistan, when he was a ten years old boy. He had to start to think about himself and Leyla said that she was really moved to tears in hearing this. Chiara and Giorgia could not believe their years listening to the long travel that Enayat had to undergo in order to come to Italy. He risked his life more than once.

Haseeb stressed something that all afghan boys and girls know too well. To live in Afghanistan, for a child, means to have a heart like a stone. Shogufa, on her part, said that Enayat encouraged them to go against any difficulty with all their might, never surrending to hardships.
There were many questions for Enayat. Storei asked him if he would like to go back to Afghanistan. Enayat answered that he his actually happy to be in Italy, because he can study and learn, but that his country is Afghanistan and that no other country can take its place. Farzana, on her part, asked to Enayat how he felt when his mother abandoned him in Quetta. “In the beginning I was really angry with her, I couldn't understand the reason why I was left alone in a foreign city. But then I understood that all that my mother wanted was a hope for my life.”