Na sombra do Baobá
(Coleção Jeitos de Mudar o Mundo)

Stela Barbieri e Fernando Vilela
Escala Educacional, 2008.
Formato 18 x 20cm , 48p
ISBN 978-85-377-0808-8

Num lugar muito distante, havia uma mulher que queria ter um filho. Todos os dias ela ia até um baobá que havia perto de sua casa e ali fazia suas preces, pedindo para os deuses a ajudarem a ter o filho que tanto desejava. Certa vez, deseperada, ela gritou: “Que os deuses me mandem um filho, mesmo que ele seja pequeno como esta semente de Baobá”. Nove meses se passaram e a mulher deu à luz um nenê muito pequenininho. A partir daí, alimentá-lo e cuidar de sua saúde foi um grande desafio que exigiu dela toda dedicação, além da cooperação do povo daquele lugar.


Under the shadow of the Baoba Tree
(Collection Ways to change the world)

Stela Barbieri e Fernando Vilela
Publisher: Escala Educacional, 2008
Size 18 x 20cm ,
Paperback: 48 pages
ISBN 978-85-377-0808-8

In a very distant place, there was a woman who wished to have a son. Everyday she would go to a nearby baoba tree to make her prayers, pledging to the gods to help her have the kid she wanted so much. Once, desperate, she shouted: “May the Gods send me a son even if he were as small as this baoba seed!” Nine months went by and the woman gave birth to a tiny little baby. From that day on, feeding and taking care of him was a great and awfully demanding challenge, which she carried out with all her efforts and the assistance of the people from that place.
This book is part of the Project Ways of Changing the World, based on the 8 Millennium Development Goals proposed by the United Nations. The fourth Goal, “Reduce Child Mortality”, motivated Under the shadow of the Baoba Tree.