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I was sunday watching the elimination match between Angola-Ghana.

In a bar, with other persons i felt the absurd, as i already explained, of this CAN...and of this CAN in Angola.

What is that disturb me?

Not just in the money spent to build the football fields; or having good and modern transmissions of the match in the national TV when the normal transmission -the civil one- is still difficult, if not impossible, in many parts of the country; neither the contradiction of this funny nice event with the disaster of many floods occurred in different areas of the country -many displaced persons, deaths and injured-...no, it was something more...

In fact, in that “rich” bar, many persons had t-shirt, scarfs, trumpets of the national team....many money, looking at prices here, wasted in buying gadgets while, I'm sure, if i had asked “do you have a mosquito net?”, they will have answered: “No”.

It is a common absurd thing that i often had to face.

Having a role in a “malaria project” many came to me asking for a free mosquito net.

“Ok” i say, but why don't you buy one?

Because “i have no money”, many answer.

And for many it is true, for other it isn't. For others it is not a priority, even if the malaria is the first killer or cause of disease in Angola, but still it is not a priority to have one (the mosquito net is the first form of malaria prevention).

So i ask more...Why do u have every 2 weeks a new hair style? Why don't you think to save money in the aim to buy one mosquito net? Why are you waiting for “me” -meaning “one for free-”? Why don't you take care of your child?

I'm sure many of us will do just the same, everyone is waiting for the free ride, isn't it?

So they are waiting for the free mosquito net while they are daily risking to get the strong malaria that will kill them -or someone closed to them-.

Anyway, think that everyone will make the same, these answer are still hard to understand for me.

Yesterday I went to visit my Nuns friends, they lead a Nursery and assist in giving birth and sick pregnant women.

One of them told me that she thinks always that African people receive sufferance from the beginning, in fact she had just assisted the birth of a baby, that was already infected with malaria (there is a prevention treatment for pregnant woman with malaria but many don't do it). A child already infected of a disease that could be avoided. A child probably birth just to soon die for this disease.

Nevertheless another frequent answer is: “I don't like/use it because makes the bed hotter”.

And that is...it makes “hotter”(meaning “stop the air circulation”, not true) and so they don't use, until arriving in the hospital when it is too late.