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After Sekou comes Seydou: in the refuge the inclusion doubles

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Bepi Monti, owner of Carducci, hires another immigrant who has come aboard a boat. He will be a dishwasher and takes the place of his friend already “promoted” to baker and pizza chef

HISTORY. The Carducci refuge does not leave but doubles, confirming itself as the “capital” of hospitality at high altitude. Not only Sekou: from this year Seydou will be at work inside the structure located in the upper Giralba valley in the shadow of the majestic Croda dei Toni. African friends, united by a long journey that, after a thousand adventures and as many hardships, saw them, from Lampedusa, once they got off one of the many good luck boats that daily plow the Mediterranean, reaching first Alpago and then Auronzo. It was the year 2017. Together they experienced hardship and distrust on their own colored skin. Never giving up, believing in a better future. Which, for those who know how to wait, arrives on time in the end. This is thanks to Bepi Monti and his partner Alessio Parrinello who have decided to hire them both in a refuge, where it is hard from sunrise to sunset at an altitude of 2300 meters. Which, for two Africans, means “stuff from the other world”. Sekou first, then Seydou. The story of Sekou Samateh is already known: 20-year-old Gambian, he started working at Carducci as a dishwasher to soon discover that he was good at making pizza and bread. Reminiscences of an old passion dating back to his years in Gambia and put to good use at the 2300 meters of the Carducci under the push of his friend Bepi Monti who decided to give him a chance after meeting him on the streets of Auronzo, guest of the local structure of hospitality. Sekou has come a long way and now dreams of a future as a chef. In the meantime he gained other professional experiences during the winter, elsewhere because Carducci, with the snow, becomes off limits. Said of Sekou, this year it was the turn of Seydou Konate, hired by Carducci as a dishwasher.

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Another “found” by Bepi Monti, endorsed without delay by the young partner Alessio.

Seydou does not speak Italian well, he comes from Mali and is thirty years old, ten years older than Sekou who acts as a translator to tell his story.

«Seydou arrived with me in Italy in 2017. We traveled, sitting side by side, on a boat of hope. We feared not to make it but we never lost hope. Seydou is married and has two children, ”says Sekou again,“ but he hasn’t seen his family for thirteen years. I’ve been five. He has already worked in a bar in Auronzo and since this summer he has come up here to give us a hand. He immediately settled in well. Seydou is happy in Auronzo, he likes the mountains. A bit like myself. Our dreams? I don’t know about his, I guess he will want to return to Mali as soon as possible to hug his wife and children again. My? I too would like to go back to Gambia one day but only for a short holiday. Now my life is here in Italy, here in Auronzo in the mountains. Here I am happy ».

Giuseppe Monti also speaks of the two. Behind the white beard and the look of a “mountain man” lies the good heart of those who have decided to open the doors of their refuge not to one but to two migrants.

“Seydou in recent days has helped me and Alessio to fix a path here in the area”, revealed Bepi, “he moves with ease, even in the snow. Sekou is now a veteran, he goes up and down along the paths of the Giralba valley and, if necessary, also turns into a tour guide ».

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