{"id":21702,"date":"2024-10-15T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ascs.it\/?p=21702"},"modified":"2024-10-15T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:12:26","slug":"a-toothless-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ascs.it\/en\/a-toothless-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"A toothless smile"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A toothless smile<\/h3><\/h2><\/div>
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Hi, I’m Davide Pignata<\/b>. I was almost 8 years old when ASCS was born. At that age I had a toothless smile. Fixed teeth slowly grew over the holes left by baby teeth. I was almost 8 years old when ASCS was born. At that age I had a toothless smile. Fixed teeth slowly grew over the holes left by baby teeth. <\/p>\n

8 years ago I met ASCS.<\/b> Since then, in a way, I have relived the dynamic, in this non-dental case, of the fall of the unstable, believed fixed, and the slow growth of the unexpected.<\/p>\n

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I had just graduated from high school when I met the Scalabrinians and ASCS youth work in Puglia at Camp Io Ci Sto. <\/b>The wind from the Borgo Mezzanone track threw the dusty concreteness of caporalato in my face, evidence of the labyrinths of injustice underlying our system of consumption.<\/p>\n

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Over the next three summers I returned again to the Gargano, feeling uncomfortable and in the right place at the same time. This feeling, of uncomfortableness and home, is a constant with my ASCS companions and fellow travelers. I found it again on the Balkan route, when, at the end of a journey that started in Gaziantep and ended in Trieste<\/a><\/b>, I saw growing in us the deep sense of injustice in the face of the walls of black Europe. I found it again in Bolivia<\/a><\/b>, feeling brothers and sisters the inhabitants of a home not my own. I found it again, finally, in Trieste, Ceuta and Calais<\/b><\/a>, where, squeezed on the border they try to build small shared spaces of solidarity. <\/p>\n

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The people I met with ASCS radically changed my life, opening up avenues still only brightly sketched.<\/b><\/p>\n

I wish ASCS continued discomfort, creating, at the same time, flashes of home and community.<\/p>\n

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