Danilo Lago (Brasile)
Who is:
Father Danilo Lake is a missionary in Brazil, the Congregation of "Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions" in Parma, known as "Xaverian", having as a model and patron St. Francis Xavier.
He was born November 17, 1950 and entered the seminary of the Xaverian Fathers, then known as the Missionaries of Father Bird, 11 years in 1961. The ordination was celebrated on September 25, 1977.
During his theological studies he had the opportunity to work with groups of young students who took care of homeless people. He was inspired to devote himself to helping the first "homeless" in Italy, then to Brazil as a missionary among the "landless", often still treated as slaves.
After ordination he was assigned to the United States (1978-1982), on the outskirts of Chicago and Boston. Had occasion to visit the Sioux Indians in the "bad lands", as they are called, and the famous ghetto Garry Indiana, where steel mills work the Negroes in inhumane conditions.
In 1982 he arrived in Brazil in Brasilia four months to study the Portuguese, then in the Amazon rainforest in Victoria and Souzel Xingu River.
In 1989 he was transferred to St. Felix do Xingu.
Where it operates:
San Felix do Xingu is a vast Amazon region to loot as quickly as possible! San Felix is the municipality that has the highest rate of deforestation in Brazil.
It was part of the "forest reserve" of plants rich mahogany. The hunt Mahogany created conflicts among sawmill owners, wealthy merchants, and smallholders former latex binders, seringheiros, or peasants, conflicts that often ended in murder and murder of the latter. San Felix is also considered the capital of "gunmen" murderers by profession, without scruples and conscience, in the service of large landowners. The sale of mahogany is not any benefit or welfare went to the region of production. Exploitation of the timber is passed to the deforestation to make way for large flocks in the wild and now the region is involved in the misappropriation of land and is shattered by the excavations to extract nickel, copper, gold and other precious minerals.
Activities:
The recovery of land ownership is essential to give people a minimum of food security. It is this aspect that takes place within the activities of Father Danilo's Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), organization of the Brazilian church, always attentive to the problems of labor, justice and peace among the children of his land.
The poverty of the people depends mainly on the expropriation of land, from being subject to the landowners and the multinationals. The dignity and livelihood depend on their own crops, equipment technology, innovative plantations, the direct marketing of products, from a social organization, training of farmers. Among many difficulties father Danilo is building an organization in the Amazon, which is a benchmark in Italy in the farmers' unions.
Father Daniel is one of the co-founders of a cooperative of fishermen and small farmers. To increase your income has gone from breeding to rice cultivation, than the cacao, and now proposes the production of chestnuts and walnuts of Para in Brazil, to produce edible oil and beauty products. So far, the most experienced collectors of the fruit are the Indians, the more intelligent users of the forest. Is activating a network of technical assistance for rural families.
You have created a technical school for the sons of farmers, by the method of alternate: one week at school and two at home.
Contact:
Father Danilo LAKE
CX. POSTAL 51
68385-000 - Tucumã '- PARA'
(BRAZIL)
or:
HOUSE PAROQUIAL (CPT)
CX. POSTAL 08
68390-000 OURILÂNDIA DO NORTE - PARA '
(BRAZIL)
