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Roberto Galante passed away on July 21 . A filmmaker, artisan, photographer, writer, teacher, educator and friend, he brought joy and hope and sought to transform the many corners of the world he visited.
Galante held a degree in Architecture from the University of Florence, and lectured in Theory and Technique of Mass Communications and Instruments and Techniques of Visual Communication. He worked as a stage assistant, in advertising, and as director and producer of short films, receiving numerous international awards for his screenplays and creative research.
A self-confessed ‘citizen of the world’, Galante lived and worked in many countries, including in the tents and huts of the Shiluk and Dinka in Africa. He also lived for extended periods in the disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Cairo, Khartoum, Juba, Mombasa, among the Eskimos and with communities of the Iranian and Chilean diaspora and other marginalised political refugees.
Roberto Galante arrived in Mozambique via the Basilicata-Mozambique Association in 2008 and set up, in the shadow of the Hulene garbage dump, a ‘Laboratory of Photography, Video and Digital Imaging’ called “A Mundzuku Ka Hina” (‘Our Tomorrow’, in Changana). His students were youngsters and the children who survive there on the rubbish that urban Maputo produces every day.
More than just offering communication classes giving new life skills to youngsters in the Hulene neighbourhood, Roberto used innovative teaching techniques to reintegrate Mozambicans who had previously had no hope of ever getting out of their garbage-centred lives.
Galante also created a carpentry workshop for the Quelimane cooperative “Artes e Oficios”, bringing new perspectives to street children in the area, and collaborated in the construction of the shelter for disadvantaged children in Mocuba.
His greatest wish was to give young people, orphans and street children “a perspective and a life experience.”
Roberto Galante fell victim to a lymphatic tumour and died in Taranto, Italy.
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