of Alfonso Hunter . a novel? a poet? a reporter? a genial work from the banking world? Who is Dario Lo Scalzo ? Maybe all that and something else. Personally, I've learned to shy away from the definitions, too stringent, generally misleading, unable to grasp that particular makes the difference. Meeting Darius, with whom I spoke willingly for interviewing you, I have removed the temptation to find labels: every life is unique, unique, like that of every man, every woman, so I prefer for him to tell.
about 8 decades ago I was born in Agrigento, perhaps not by chance. I've always been a very active and dynamic since the early childhood years in the sport I found a way to express myself, to know me, find myself and grow.
I find it really interesting the relationship between you and Sport ...
Today I can say with certainty that sport in general and in particular the Athletics have been a real training ground for life in my way. The athletics has prepared me to the hardness of life, I was prepared to sacrifice, but also the effort to grasp the beauty of our surroundings, to enjoy the joy of sharing the pleasure of grasping the success tied to the commitment and passion, honesty, fairness.
Among your many athletic interests and values, it makes me think of the image that Paul of Tarsus gives of himself, one who trains, compete, dare the challenge lies in the arena and runs.
Athletics has taught me to compete with my "self" as a precondition for improvement and growth. Today it is this that leads me in the marathon of life: look inward, to follow what I feel inside, improve and love what is outside of me with the belief that this love is contagious, and then produce a domino effect in others. I observe, I see, I create and try to give the positive part of my person and spontaneous.
Your marathon existence "when he had his real incipit? obviously beyond the day of the coming to light.
I graduated in economics and business in Palermo and at the same time I obtained a minilaurea in marketing in France. Since then, it started my long journey. A physical journey, but also interior material and spiritual. I started working for a well known international bank, first in Milan then Paris and then in other countries on five continents. A great learning experience, and rewarding one for me, to which I am very grateful. In fact, beyond my professional growth, very important, In those years I saw and observed, I know the world and the people who inhabit it. I crossed the diversity and I talked and lived with it. The magma of a new awareness has begun to move in myself.
You talk as if something had happened to you has projected a further, towards a (A) lter.
After the prestigious managerial experience in the world of velvety banking and finance, I chose to go beyond eliminating the mark, in a sense, the counter to restart from the field of microcredit in Latin America. At that time it was the right combination, the right mix of skills acquired to be made available for social or business case for something that had a real social utility. Throughout my career I spent a good part in a bank of free time to philanthropy, volunteering in the area but also elsewhere, traveling the world.
nothing short of a sudden, after you read "eternity of the moment."
fire was a "click", there was an undeniable and irreversible force that pushed me to do more in the first person to see a child smile. In my "vacation relief" in fact was what I wanted and I was totally filled with joy much more than, say, a professional recognition. In that historical moment, therefore, the field of microfinance was the way to go. After a while Dario was born another, that of today, perhaps a Heraclitean for which the change is the only permanent thing of life. Nothing is permanent except change.
So you've dipped among the poor and poverty.
With regard to micro-credit, this experience introduced me to a different world but also a poverty different from that I knew through my travel around the planet.
said to us: What is microcredit?
Microcredit is a useful tool to provide opportunities those who did not almost right, it offers the opportunity to build a people without dignity to humiliation and dependence resulting dall'assistenzialismo it is also a training process and educational development model led by the lens to improve lives of other human beings (as they are to us) who live for nothing. But attention is not all gold that glitters, and must recognize the limits of that system but, thanks to Yunus, in its conceptual simplicity, has represented and still represents a real revolution and peaceful evolution of our times.
What limits looming, which could run?
limits, in my opinion, lie in the risk of transferring or wishing nolendo the Western model in the socio-cultural distance from that model. The risk would be to "standardize" indigenous Indians tribes "trimming" the system of slowly-god money, gradually eradicating their traditions and origins.
What to do?
All reality is that in Africa, Asia or Latin America has its own history and its facets, incorrect and hard to seek universal solutions. Certainly if I were at the junction between the risk, to strive, to distort the culture of a people and to let him die of hunger today, I would have doubts about what to do. Another danger on the horizon for the micro-finance could be linked to more frequent interference from the banking world classic, before the financial crisis and saturated markets recently is really hungry looking at the micro, a time for fortune snubbed, now considered areas of "potential", from which there is also hoping to benefit. But that is another chapter, further discussion to discuss it in depth.
return to you.
After the experience of microcredit in Central America, I started a long sabbatical in which I traveled to Latin America and South America by combining consistently travel and projects / collaborations nell'umanitario . Then return to the West, spurred by a desire to return to "import" in the world where I belong new ideas, new ideas, new energy, awareness and testimony. Today, with much more are business consultant and writer .
Yes, it is still hot off the press his latest anthology of poems "The eternity of the moment" (published by Zone in January 2011), as well as his novel "The kitchen seen from scannatoio" (Zona 2010), and begins to mature a few years "The cry of a tie the knot tight", another collection of poems (published by Libroitaliano in 2008) ...
Correspondent reporter-Dario writes for "The Change" for which he created and manages the book "Invisible History." He has worked with the magazine "Left Incidents", with the monthly "The Clandestine with a residence permit" and "Girodivite. In his articles dealt with different issues. He has written articles on the endless war in Congo, on microcredit in Latin America, racism, equal opportunities, the SLA, human rights, childhood obesity, light on athletics and its values, on the situation of our country and curiosities and oddities from the world
Meanwhile I see his pen "Frolic," I do not want to stop treatment. We meet. Soon we entertain again.
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Mexico, Veracruz, Antonio lives with his family in one of the poorest rural areas of Veracruz. With her first loan received from microcredit has invested in goods and products for his shop for food that was created five years ago. Before working on the streets by providing manpower with his bike. Today, the fourth loan, turns in motion and has also created a hardware store next to the shop.
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