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Keeps it's been three months! The course

Hello,

Then this course CP / SP not exactly like it's finally here! Indeed, it did not take place on Sunday evening as planned because the leaders were invited to a ceremony promise of another group. Here for ceremonies promise, they invite a lot of scouts and that this happens during worship.

So the rate to rise the next day and I met talkative parrot, 60 years of Scouting, which tells me his scouting life, exciting, the end of colonialism where Scouting was living its golden age, the dictatorship under Mobutu, who did not see a very good eye this youth movement does not adhere to its ideology. By this time Mobutu establishes an authoritarian one-party, "Popular Movement for the Revolution" with of course his youth movement contributing to political propaganda, it's the end of many scout groups.

Then independence in 1960, which gives the opportunity for young people to find themselves under the name Scout. Currently, it seems that the scout movement is still fragile and poorly organized. They have a national and provincial levels but appear to have very few resources. Parrot explain his efforts to convey his experience and his knowledge of the movement to younger generations.

Then after 2 hours, the troop leader arrives with his PC, for the delay is like the job, it has become almost normal for me, and they begin. They talk about the uniforms, they must buy the fabric and then go to the tailor. They will parade during the celebration of the 50 th anniversary of independence on June 30 and moved me to march with them ... I do not know yet, a national holiday in a city of 10 million people where in the more they are celebrating the departure of the settlers. It makes me a little freak! Then they organize patrols "antelope", "lions", " ostriches "as it is rather exotic names! Finally they invite me to participate in the recognition of their summer vacation camp (here it's not summer, but the dry season). A day of walking through the rainforest with a river view as it promises to be great.

C’est a great experience during which I do not feel this barrier due to the color of my skin, which is not the case in the street where I feel some discrimination. What touches me in the discrimination that I experienced is that people (not all of course) not only interested in who I am but what I represent for them, ie white, rich, Chinese, colon ...

If the work takes me much time, it is the rush there. I put up a project intervention with a young staff to review his coming exams, but especially by Bied this activity, allow him to try to regain his skills. I feel it is ripe! Otherwise I do another project in which I host the meeting in which I small they can work their esteem, their image them, their identity. Not easy when one has been abandoned by his parents and we spent several years of his life in the street! And finally my third project is to be co-referent group in a semi-open. Yeah it's loaded, but exciting. Especially I still have two weeks of work then two weeks holiday egg, then a month of work with project evaluation and review period.

This is another small photo of Matthew with Timothy, a child Bakolé. There will be a good dad Is not it!

Jean-Yves