RITA

Description: Annotu is Lunàdigas’ live archive dedicated to stories about the parental choices spoken in minority languages, starting from the Sardinian language. Annotu – in the Sardinian language – means “to note/archive”.

In her testimony for the archive, Rita – a Sardinian woman, mother of an eight-year-old child – tells how the birth of her son led her and her partner to take action with respect to the environment and the protection of the planet, starting from their daily lives as parents.

It is from thinking about how to “bring up (their child) well and healthy, giving him the best that was within our possibilities’ that they begin to explore certain themes and to apply certain ecological choices in everyday life: ‘when a baby was born, when we were children they used those ciripà, as they are called… pieces of cloth that were tied on the baby to do what they do today with nappies”.

So Rita started using these cloths and washing them because she says, “those that we buy ready in the supermarket or in the pharmacy, take more than seven hundred years to decompose. Do we want his good? So we must also do the good of the world, of everything around us”.

Can anyone do their share of “doing good for the world around us”?  Rita replies: “Anything can be done, it seems like a hustle, a cumbersome thing, but instead if you put yourself in it, you can do it like anything else”.