In the coffers of the Municipality, there is no money to buy a school bus, and the mayor of Zapponeta, a small town in the province of Foggia, did not think twice about it and, every morning, is the driver to school children, going to pick them from home, in the countryside, with its Panda light in color: a blow of the horn that announces his arrival, and the children climb into the car.
So every morning, from when you started the school year, September 14. Then Vincenzo D Aloisio, at 8: 30 precise, it reaches its place of the mayor in the Municipality of Zapponeta, a town of 3,400 souls, a country so in debt from not being able to afford anything, much less a school bus. So the mayor decided to use his Panda and go get the children, whose parents they get up very early to go to work in the fields. It is in all of the four children: one attends middle school and three in primary school.
the disruption of The country, officially declared in 2012, gives no respite and barely manages to cope with the ordinary, so much so that from three to four years, the municipal administration does not pay even some of the public users. “It’s all the fault of the managers wrong,” says D Aloisio, mayor by just three months.
D Aloisio has 47 years old, is an agronomist and farmer, and is married, is a father of two girls 12 and 15 years, are “absolutely normal,” the decision of the father to use his Panda to go get some of the pupils and bring them to the school.
“I don’t understand why this story – says the mayor – is doing so much fuss: this is normality, this is a small country, we all know each other, we try to do all I can to resolve things. The van is a drop in the ocean of problems that we have.” And if someone asks as to why such a situation has decided to run for smiles: “Because I’m a crazy, we’re crazy”, he answers. Around him is able to aggregate the Five-Star Forza Italia: “our – explains – it is a administration of public health”. The deputy mayor has 32 years old, the youngest of the directors he’s 25.
“This – is the story Of Aloisio – is the Country with the highest debt in Europe: we have 17 million of debts, 10 million of whom are of a mortgage for which we pay an annual installment of 700 thousand euros compared to a budget of 2 million euros. The Puglia Region has approved a contribution for the purchase of the school bus, but the coffers of the city are so empty that you can’t even cover the remaining amount needed for the purchase of the vehicle. With the few money that we have, we can only provide lighting, heating and public service of waste collection”.
“the parents of The pupils, who will accompany you to the school are farmers and go to work as soon as out in the field and not be able to accompany the children”. And the other? “The other sacrifice, asking for help to relatives or, unfortunately, do not send their children to school.” “I used my Panda – adds – to compensate for the lack of the institutions, but honestly I thought it was a normal thing. We live by normalcy: what I want to say? If not, there is a school bus in any way you must do: to me weighs not going to take these children and accompany them to school at 8.30, have in Common. Sure – it allows the mayor – we want a miracle: we would like to solve our financial problems and, why not, finally, to buy a minibus. Waiting for the ‘miracle’, however, you have to get busy and we don’t pull back”.
That of the Panda, in reality, is not the only initiative of this kind adopted by the neosindaco and his administration: “on The 6th of June we were elected, and after a couple of days with their wives and girlfriends – says – we armed ourselves with buckets and brooms and we clean the whole of the town Hall.” That’s not all: it is easy to meet the mayor in the streets of Zapponeta while, armed with shears, pruning trees and bushes. And if it is not the gardener, then along with other counselors of good will take the buckets and lava squares of the country. “Everything is normal – repeats – what do you wonder?”.
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