“In Kenya with Giobbe Covatta”, a video that tells the emergencies of Africa
Warner Bros. Discovery and Amref Italia have planned a special program for May 25 to raise awareness among viewers of the challenges and prejudices that concern the African continent and to tell the delicate relationship between the environment, animals and people. On that date , World Africa Day will be celebrated. “ I wish you much freedom, my dear mother Africa,” writes the actor and writer Giobbe Covatta in his notebook, before saying goodbye to the African continent on the occasion of the last trip told in the documentary “ In Kenya with Giobbe Covatta ,” broadcast on the Nove channel on Sunday, May 25 at 9:30, coinciding with Africa Day . The video was broadcast in preview on Discovery+ on Sunday, May 18.
Over thirty years of travel in Africa, for Covatta, who was one of the first faces in the entertainment world to give voice to social causes in the Italian panorama, alongside Amref Italia since its foundation. The Amref Italia documentary is produced by Jumpcutmedia for Warner Bros. Discovery, and sees the friendly participation of geologist and science communicator Mario Tozzi , with interesting contributions on the climate crisis and its effects.
“In Kenya with Giobbe Covatta” is a further step in the collaboration between Amref Italia and Warner Bros. Discovery, which began two years ago, with the aim of contributing to a more truthful narration of Africa. The actor takes the viewer into the challenges and potential of Africa, crossing the most difficult suburbs and the most remote areas of Kenya, between health, women's empowerment and climate change . Africa, despite emitting less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions, is the continent most exposed to climate change. The climate crisis, unfortunately, represents one of the greatest challenges for African populations: the rate of malnutrition is increasing, poverty is growing, the conditions of the most vulnerable groups of the population, especially women and children, are worsening.
If one has to go and supply water to one's family with kilometers of walking, every morning, it is always the woman who does it, and often it is a girl. When the family can no longer have enough food and money, girls are the first to have to leave school or, even worse, to be given in marriage in exchange for the dowry.
Between climate change and women's redemption, Amref Health Africa operator Cynthia Oningoi leads Covatta on the routes of a new hope made in Kenya, among the Masai communities of Kajiado. As does her colleague Wesley Koskey , who welcomes Giobbe upon his arrival, in the largest slum in East Africa. At the end of the journey, when saying goodbye to him, Wesley will show him a piece of Africa's future.
"Every year, on May 25, the world celebrates Africa Day," emphasizes Paola Crestani , president of Amref Italia. "We wanted to do it with our Africa Days, a journey that transforms the International Day of Africa into a month (May, ed. ) of stories, initiatives and opportunities that involve everyone, with the generosity and irony of Job. His is a journey through images between blows to the heart, laughter and words to keep fixed in the notebook of our memory, when we talk about Africa. One above all is matumaini , which means hope."
Credits: photo Amref Italia
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