{"id":52140,"date":"2015-02-16T09:08:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/stories-and-testimonies-3\/pangea-in-senegal-the-rediscovery-of-the-essential\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:08:29","slug":"pangea-in-senegal-the-rediscovery-of-the-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/news\/pangea-in-senegal-the-rediscovery-of-the-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangea, in Senegal: the rediscovery of the essential"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pangea-michele-senegal\"<\/a>Before arriving in Senegal my expectations were undoubtedly a lot: it was a matter of alternating between morality and profession, although the real reason was clearly experiencing a break of my life together with those who weren\u2019t swimming in gold, with those for whom education isn\u2019t something wavering from rights and duties, but just one of the few escapes from an existence condition \u201calmost\u201d unchangeable.<\/p>\n

I think that when you find yourself living on the essential for a long period, you come up with realizing that in our society we\u2019ve got too much things belonging to the sphere of the unnecessary. It\u2019s about a very strong experience by a human point of view, it\u2019s something that forcedly overwhelms and wraps you up at the same time. The only form of competition which resounds here has to do with life, for the rest, in this place, the \u201cGod-money\u201d hasn\u2019t created neither machines nor slaves, but just bland users.<\/p>\n

Much of the sensations and emotions have changed in relation to my stay here, arisen from all the stuff that starts taking part of our sensorial sphere, may it be a smile, a look, a new way to mark the time in complete harmony with the local way of living .<\/p>\n

The greatest thing here is the population. I\u2019m talking about people able to put countless smiles on you, people turning their sense of sharing into their existence\u2019s secret, simple people and full of life.<\/p>\n

After all this time I\u2019ve been staying here, I can assure you that \u201cI really don\u2019t what I\u2019ve been giving to this place, but I actually know that this place has given everything to me\u201d.<\/p>\n

By the professional point of view I\u2019m quite satisfied. I\u2019ve worked to bring forward educational and professional activities. More precisely, I\u2019ve edited and coordinated a project of Health and Environmental Education in BiramB\u00e8ye de Kadior de Zuguinchor School, carrying out recreational\/ educational activity for more than 200 Senegalese children. In addition, in order to consolidate the image of the association itself and boosting new partnerships, I\u2019ve started creating a web site which currently is being build up. Thanks to EVS I\u2019ve managed to improve my language skills and learn new ones.<\/p>\n

I suggest to all those who are taking part in it, everywhere they are and provide EVS, to let them being charmed and seduced by the place, leaving at home any kind of prejudice and social stereotype, not sketching out benchmarks and ,especially, to look with a different perspective and open up minds \u2018doors. It\u2019s a great life experience, that I wish to everyone, where you can improve your professional, language and especially personal skills.<\/p>\n

I hope I\u2019ve drawn the best lessons out of this EVS, in the hope that these have given me the possibility to be a better man, recipient of \u201can adventure falling within empirical, but that in my opinion, leaves something of overwhelming in you\u201d.<\/p>\n

Michele Nasca<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before arriving in Senegal my expectations were undoubtedly a lot: it was a matter of alternating between morality and profession, although the real reason was clearly experiencing a break of my life together with those who weren\u2019t swimming in gold, with those for whom education isn\u2019t something wavering from rights and duties, but just one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26915],"tags":[],"unita":[],"class_list":["post-52140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t