Hello,
Sorry if I have not written much lately, but I had a lot of work.
Last Tuesday, during our holiday, we went "shopping" downtown. And then came the shock! Indeed, the shop is air-conditioned stalls are filled with products of international brands and prices are two times higher than in Switzerland. The contrast is violent, there are more expats here than I have yet seen for two months. Even the music style pan flute is tasteless. Some products make me feel like maybe because they remind me of Switzerland indecent but the price makes me give up. Here I notice how I'm conditioned by the Western consumer society and its aggressive marketing led to the death. While I do consider myself not as addicted to consumption, but nevertheless part of this system, the point was brutal and remember how I hate this system.
Wednesday we went to visit the training center of higher social educators in Kinshasa. We present the director, then forcing African hospitality, we go around classes (4) each with thirty students where every time we interrupt the teacher, students are presented as the Swiss, explain who we are and what we doing here and the teacher asks us some questions. The psychology teacher asked us what we have struck cultural aspects here and what has changed in our personality since our arrival. So now the whole center is aware!
Then we go into the office of head teacher who asks how he can do for us. After introducing himself, he invites us to return to participate in analysis of practice, what we accept. Then he talks about his approach to the problem of street children, its causes and ways to remedy them. It has a very clear and comprehensive the problem. It is for individual care and monitoring children's psychological. I am quite of that opinion, because with these children would first work on their history, their abandonment, they have suffered in the street and the behaviors they were able to learn their afford to accept it and work on their life projects. Giving them food and shelter is already a lot but unfortunately that is not enough. Finally he deplores the lack of institutions.
You will not believe it, but nice turtle asked me to participate in CP / SP it organizes in collaboration with three scouts! And that will take place the weekend of climbing, as with us. Damn, I have already animated full course CP / SP in Switzerland and I'm gonna do it here it'll be too cool! He described the program and a lot like what we do here, patrol management, commitment, technical Scout ... remains to be seen whether the parties are happening as we do!
That, I think well of you and time is running out is crazy. So full of kisses and the next for new adventures.
Jean-Yves
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