Is called #We stand togetherSennori the information and awareness campaign promoted by the Sardinian municipality of Sennori in collaboration with the cultural association Inschibboleth. Its main objective is to invite the community to respect the behavior useful to avoid contagion.

A singular initiative because it sees the involvement of centenary of the small community of 7150 inhabitants. Centenarians that, face masks, are posted on posters all over the country. The wrinkled look is so penetrating that it speaks for itself. Tatta Giovanna Ogana, 104, tatta Antonina Piga, 102, and tatta Giacomina Fois, 98, give their fellow citizens - but basically throughout Italy - a message simple, full of sense di humanity: Call it a mask, we call it Respect and Love.

centenarians - three elderly ladies with masks

Nothing more true: respect simple rules - use a mask, wash your hands often with soap and water, respect safety distances of at least one meter, do not touch your face with your hands - is today a act of love and respect. Towards the Other. And therefore towards us. With #resistiamoinsiemeSennori the Councilor for Culture Elena Cornalis, one of the promoters of the initiative, wanted to express first of all the closeness of the Sennorese community to the weakest people, the elderly population. People who are more sensitive to Covid-19, the elderly are also put to the test when they try to escape from it. Because of the quarantine they find themselves living in solitude, with morale terrified by danger, by the fear of going out.

centenaries - detail of eye

The protagonists of this information campaign are also the mayor, Nicola Sassu, the parish priest, Monsignor Salvatore Masia, the directors of the banking and postal services, and many ordinary citizens who for work reasons are more exposed to the risk of contagion. To enrich the initiative are added the installations of Social street art of Sennorese artists Ica Spanish e Antonio Salis who have made their ingenuity and creativity available to the project.

centenaries - a mask

In order for citizens to comply with the correct behavior, the Municipality has also installed in 140 sensitive places - public offices, outside supermarkets and shops and near places of worship - a number of new ones spacers. On them, accurately indicated, the safety distance to be maintained in order to avoid risks, in full compliance with the Ministerial instructions, and above all in respect of that elderly population, large in Sardinia and always a long-lived pride of the island, which from the walls of Sennori invites us with very deep eyes to be kind. Wearing like them, and for them, a small gesture of love.

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“Call it a mask, we call it love”. A hundred years old models against the virus last edit: 2020-05-13T09:00:00+02:00 da Mariangela Cutrone

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