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Eva Biginelli was born in Turin in 1962. She started travelling young, first to perfect her studies as interpreter, then for work, but soon only for passion. The first destinations were countries in the north where the native population still lives, in Greenland and Alaska; later in the southern hemisphere, from the Amazones to South Africa, in search of a way of life still in touch with nature - and better if a nature in full defiance of human abilities and endurance.
Towards the end of the 80s, after having personally experienced the decline of the north American native population, Eva transferred to Africa for several years of work as a freelance reporter for BBC Worldvision TV. With this work she came in contact with the population of the Horn of Africa, in those years hit with war and famine; Somalis, Ethiopians, Eritreans, Kenyans, Ugandans, Rwandans, people too often parched and rendered passive and incapable of reacting to the so-called international aid.
In particular remains blows against the population of the South-East of Uganda, in the Nkoni-area: in this fertile but abandoned - for lack of men to work on it - area, where AIDS has cut down so thoroughly the adult generation and has rendered alone the old and the children, the women and the old have organized themselves in groups to guarantee the growth and treatment of the dozens and dozens of orphans, the orphans of AIDS.
Back in Italy, she decided to continiue her commitment to this population, in particular towards the children of Nkoni, trying to give them hope for the future. She founded, in collaberation with a local aquainted from her stay in Africa, the school of Nkoni.
In Italy, she is occupied with finding funds to allow the school to continiue. In the meantime, her passion for the environment prompted her to collaborate with a local branch of Legambiente, with a group of Turinese who share with her the neccesary social commitment. In no time, the [Circolo Ecopolis] is becoming on of the most important in Turin and the two projects have merged...
Today, Eva has two children, but her commitment to Nkoni had not decreased!
Eva can be contacted by e-mail at
Otherwise, you can fill in the form below, or send a letter addressed to
''Eva Biginelli
c/o Legambiente Ecopolis
Via Berthollet 43 - 10125 - Torino - Italia''
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