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When the difference becomes a pretext for meeting
Guillaume Pieraert, travailleur social de rue à Bruxelles - 16 August 2010
When the difference becomes a pretext for meeting, it is not only limited to an exchange but also create human wealth. Going to meet others through one's city, one's habits and lifestyle, this is what 7 French young persons from the town of Cajarc (department of Lot) in France proposed to 8 young Belgians from Brussels.
For a little more than a week, these 15 young people will have to get to know each other, discover and exchange through a common European project. For that, two important moments during their stay :
- going off to explore the region through sport and cultural activities
- a volunteering at the Africajarc festival, which takes place every year during the last weekend of July.
Arriving at the station of Figeac, the young French people are there to welcome us and help to carry our numerous luggage. Despite of that, timidity remains : everybody says hello, introduces him/herself and watches each other attentively.
Just arrived at the campsite, in an instant something happened. It is around the barbecue that I find the young people, laughing as if they had always known each other. From a French joke on Belgians and vice versa, these youngs get to know each other and the atmosphere settles down.
The first three days will be dedicated to the discovery of each other through their region. Through various activities, people mix with each other, a dynamic is created, solidarity settles down. They are also proposed to do Slam, a different mean to express what they feel. A difficult moment for some of them because it is not always easy to say aloud what they think for themselves. The slam will remain for many of them a unique and magical experience where you play with words and make them rhyme in rhythm.
No time to rest that the festival has already begun. Briefing on the various posts we are going to occupy and the various concerts which will rhythm this festival. The young people separate, parking lot for some, barriers for the others or even back line or cooking, each one chooses the experience he/she wants to live during this voluntary work at Africajarc.
The meals are the times when we meet, where we exchange on what we have already experienced. Some will even go and speak on the radio of the festival. From early morning to late at night sometimes, everyone will live their own way the strong moments of this festival.
Arrives the day of the departure… where we swear it will only be a goodbye, that in October, this will be our turn to welcome you in Brussels for the next step of this exchange and, this time, it will be in the frame of the Second International Forum of Social Streetworkers.
On the station platform, they will wave running alongside the train. Moment of silence, everybody stays quiet and the train echoes. Everyone is lost in thought, remembering what they've experienced. More than a European exchange, a unique experience of life. In the train, the young people fall asleep...
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