Maricla Pannocchia
Bio
I travel the world to connect with people and share their stories.
Independent, honest articles + first-hand accounts.
Author of YA novel "Letters from Afghanistan".
Stories (3/0)
We Afghan Women Are Not What They Have Labeled Us
Article by Rebel* from Afghanistan and Maricla Pannocchia Rebel and I connected over an Instagram post. When she wrote me about the situation of women in Afghanistan, asking me to amplify her voice, it felt like the most natural thing to do. We all have heard the recent, horrendous news of the Taliban banning women from university. We all know how this follows their decision of banning girls from high school. As Rebel writes, these are just 2 of the many things Afghan women and girls are not allowed to do anymore.
By Maricla Pannocchiaabout a year ago in Humans
The Forgotten Children of Syria
“When I grow up I want to be a teacher. I would like to go back home”. Shahed is a 10-year-old girl, one of the thousands of people living in this impromptu refugee camp in Turkey, not far from the Syrian border. They were forced to leave their home country when the war began and hope to go back there sometime in the future. At the moment, though, that dream seems more like an utopia than a real possibility. It’s January 2022. I am traveling with Arianna Martini, founder of Italian NGO “Support and Sustain Children” (SSCh), and photographer Paolo Messina. Arianna has set up and runs her organization, the only one to support the more than 9.000 families living in this camp. “These people belong to the poorest layer of society,” Arianna tells me, “In Syria, the majority of them were farmers”.
By Maricla Pannocchiaabout a year ago in Humans
We Have Forgiven but Not Forgotten – Agent Orange Victims Ask for Better Lives
“The progressive people of the world must speak up together so that war using nuclear and chimical weapons will never be repeated. Future generations and our children and grandchildren shall live in peace and happiness to contribute more to the progress of mankind”
By Maricla Pannocchiaabout a year ago in The Swamp
