Filter :
Sa façon d'expliquer les choses donnait envie à mes enfants de passer du temps avec elle.
Regarde ce camélia, et ce néflier : eux aussi, j'ai réussi à les sauver. Ils viennent d'un grand jardin que j'ai beaucoup aimé.
Nous apprenons à partager le jardin avec les animaux. Les pauvres, ils ont bien le droit de vivre !
I can do any job, but it has to be fun. And with children, it's impossible not to have fun!
I thought that working with people with disabilities would help me understand the world even better.
Culture is an infinite journey to meet new people who think differently from us.
Even when you lose, if you know you’ve given it 100%, you can be proud.
You find your path by giving yourself the opportunity to try different things.
I understood then that you can lose everything in an instant if you are not able to push back and advocate for yourself.
Being strong means being able to get help.
I had to send my CV about forty times!
Everything happens there, during the service. This is also the moment that I prefer.
If we went away on the weekends, no one stayed behind.
The elderly – how do you say... They are vulnerable but when they tell you their stories, even their most difficult experiences, they know how to add some humor into it.
I like to say hello to people. I look at the person, and if they look at me, I greet them and some respond back.
'Pourquoi tu travailles pas ?' J'essayais d'expliquer : je sais faire le travail mais je connais pas la langue. Je sais pas parler, pas écrire, pas lire. Avant, je savais dire seulement 'Bonjour Madame. Petite pièce, s'il vous plaît ?'
To accept that amount of time and go to sea wasn't a problem : when I climbed on my first ship, I immediately loved it.
He was not the most outgoing of my students, he has been through a lot, and I don’t know what has become of him…But I hold a particularly fond memory of him.
The more you embellish the thing, the more you feel that it is beautiful, and the more you like your environment.
We start by saying hello, dogs say hello to each other and that's how we get to talk a little bit.
Moi je sais pas lire, je sais pas écrire : c'est un handicap pour trouver du boulot.
J'ai pas envie de refaire le monde parce que c'est trop compliqué, je serai dans le trou avant. J'essaie juste de l'améliorer.
When we do meaningful things, it allows us to have meaningful experiences.
I have always wanted to observe. That’s how I got this job and I pushed it to the extreme.
They all have children but had never seen anything like that.
Before I didn’t care. After the accident, I swore that I would never let myself be bothered by unimportant things.
Firstly, I was surprised by how alive it seemed. I find the way the drawing is done, particularly the expression, is quite impressive.
Every day you will see somebody and every day you’re going to talk. So to be able to speak well is very important.
With him it was always the look. Never a slap, always words. Respect.
Usually, we feel like we’re a bit forgotten, but this time we felt like the spotlight was on us.
He really did that so well: the milk, the coffee, the cakes, the dates, the sugar…. Even a cup with spoons in water so that they would be clean. He thought of everything!
I had found the link on my mother’s side: I had come to find her and I realised that I already had her in me.
And the young people want to work with somebody who knows the neighbourhood and his job, that motivates them.
For me, to say good morning is sacred. And it’s not just to my family, it’s also to the people I meet.
It finished up being only two of us, the other two were fired.
The work load was incredible! But she didn’t give up.
The hectic schedule doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t have kids, I can do it without too much trouble.
Our second language is English. I did not speak a word of French. It was important to learn the language.
Quartier de la Chapelle
I'm a doctor with a general practice across the street and I have always had an extremely important relationship with the Relais 59.
I also volunteer in another center, I give computer lessons for beginners.
There is not a day that passes without me talking to my children.
They don’t listen, because not good at speak French; all the sudden, the phone hang up.
I was unemployed, so I wanted to do something other than stay at home.
Paris
Over in Egypt, the whole family is there and everything. There's more freedom.
There were a lot of people when we opened the school, the clinic, the pharmacy ... That was really beautiful.
When I was younger, I had trouble with the system.
My memories of Cambodia are about the war ... I also seem to remember the fields a little.
For me, the first time I picked up a pen and wrote on a piece of paper was in France.
Don’t tell me I’m going to look like this one here!
The HCR helped alot, providing us everything.
In his apartment building, “there is a togetherness, a respect between the young and the old.”
Granny, are we gonna go zoom-zoom on the bus?
Iklef a aussi connu le dernier artisan pâtissier du quartier, qui l’a pris sous son aile.
Akim means “judge,” or, as his mother specified, “He who validates those who deserve it, those who have worked hard…”
We start with 'Once upon a time'. There were a girl and a boy, they had a discussion.
Au début, je n’osais pas trop dire que j’habitais dans le 19e arrondissement.
I was wondering if I had been adopted. I asked her if she was really my mother.
Working in a hotline is not exactly what I wanted to do but it helped me to become less shy.
I didn’t speak any French, not even bonjour.
Later on, I decided that I wanted to find the place between here and there to put in place solutions and soften the resentment. Priest or not, what I’ve learned here should serve my people.
“As long as we do not accept it, it’s painful, you are only hurting yourself.”
To get to school, she crossed the Senegal river by swimming while holding up her school bag in a gourd.
Now, if it doesn’t annoy you, we can address each other informally with ‘tu’!
