I really like to speak French I
call me mao preached badly and I’m in
danger or in four years but I’m talking
down well because the difficult ones
now I understand in wood that is
what made you decide to register
at school toth because I need to
the French language
because now i am in france
what is before I speak no French
now I’m talking about taking a pot and
now I’m happy because I
do not need a translator
do you remember the first
word that you learned in French I
take my words, thank you very much
four months ago chamali did not speak
not French
I met them in September 2015
in Paris in a disused high school where
had settled migrants
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he was an Afghan asylum seeker
among so many others I remember who
drew the Afghan flag
on this board an old hall
class he was unable to express himself
in French
so I knew nothing of him after sixteen
training weeks at toth
he is now able to communicate
in French and therefore he is autonomous
in his administrative procedures and
in his daily life continues to
draw
he also made those simple
for his teacher to tôtes
today I can say that I know
that he is is then by whom he is I
not going to say that I know his
administrative situation its history
its origins etc
I know it’s not because but I
know his character I know
some of his tastes we discuss on
does not agree on everything finally brief
he became chamali a being apart
whole and a friend
I’m talking about bickering today
to illustrate my point
we need to create cohesion with
the exiled people and this
cohesion starts with communication
and by the exchanges
when migrants arrive in france
are considered a group of
identical people
the evidence we call them migrants
refugees exiled awkwardly his
never really know what is the term the
more appropriate
and then after the first meeting get
precise they are called Sudanese
the Syrians the Afghans but this is
that through the communication and
by the exchanges that we can meet
that we can share our opinion it is in
discussing with someone that
finally we make our own opinion
on this person there we go out of the
stigmatization
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how to live together if we speak
not how to share our values
respective our codes our emotions without
the word that’s why we created
thot transmit a horizon to everyone at
top
it’s a french school
refugee diploma
asylum seekers who do not hold a
degree in their country today I
devotes all my time to
development notes the concept it’s a
school that has that proves that they
propose learning conditions
stable it seems simple 1 but 160
hours of lessons given by a
qualified teacher paid
always in the same room always the
same teacher always the same
schedules and always the same class the
specific learning conditions
with insertion workshops
professional a social support a
counseling counseling
legal
we help them all in all their
needs to help them find their
place here in France
and varied learning conditions
with precisely creative workshops
with the theater of drawing singing and
also convivial outings
during these outings during these workshops
in fact we create the link and in fact we
love each other at all heads
nationalities make it possible
to do his workshops his outings that
allows them to appropriate the language
French in several contexts it
belongs all a big school toth a
opened last June thanks to a
crowdfunding campaign
we harvested nearly sixty six
a thousand euros
in forty days with 1000 153
people
it allowed us to accommodate 44
people in the school toth
this first session ended
there in October with the exam and so he
there was a pass rate on the exam
93%
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so all these people have a
recognized state diploma
internationally through
grants and donations that
continue to arrive
ten days ago we launched the second
promotion of heads with this time
70 people we almost doubled our
workforce
so that’s all I just
to tell you it’s amazing we are
extremely proud more motivated than
never and there is not that that each of the
students of the 1st session
it became a being in itself
to our eyes but also every member of
the toth team became an individual
in their eyes
also they found their
identity
that identity he was no longer able
to present this identity in this
new language he did not know
I could tell you the story of
each of them since all these
stories are brave beautiful and
strong
moussa and younes for example in june
last he had never held a pen
of their lives nor a notebook anything
today they fill the pages of
their notebooks and they got more than
75% on the exam here are all these
stories about the south of a job and
of intense motivation on their part and
from us all these people are
are met are spoken on
works and that’s for sure and we
maybe succeeds then maybe you
tell me too I want to participate
to this step and where to start
but already being convinced that
it’s the right step
after I reassure you a month I am
I’m not awake one morning saying
pop I plate everything I create a school
everything is fine no no I was
telecom engineer since 2012 at
paris and then good I found that my
missed job a little bit of
of humans that was what I was looking for
so I was a little lost I thought
I’m going to Asia to work in
a ngo
and then I have a friend who told me but you
know and louise do not need to go to
the other end of the world to make
humanitarian
there are people to help here in Paris bah
yeah it was obvious then suddenly
I was a volunteer for several
years mainly in
teaching French and I was
at the front row to find that
there was this constant need and
growing of migrants in
general to learn French and I
could tell me what their
composed that answered that
partially to their needs then
with two extraordinary girls face end
in 2015
I started
and after good certainly several months of
intense work if today bypassed
trice of this school I am surrounded
of a team of now more than
twenty people more than awesome
so I did not come here today
to ask you does the same thing
than me to advise you to do the
same as me but I came
here because we have to be the ones
actors in this society involve
we give you the opportunity to
exiles to include in France
socially and economically
restore order by doing
society around that same language
give them the opportunity to talk
French to exchange and
share pass on our knowledge
mutually we all have something to
its khalil scope for example has us
brought his joy of living his good
mood and his motivation to any
test
he is 18 he arrived in France in
as an isolated miner slept during
several weeks to the street and has
finally been welcomed in a
french family
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he’s one of the most
motivated our session he came to
all courses at all workshops
theater
I remember during the workshops
theater he was telling me at least during
few hours i can be someone
else it makes me feel good
here it is among those who have
also that we are the best
exam results and I am
will always remember his expression
coming out of the exam on Thursday then
khalil how did it go
he’s open arms she said
it was wonderful
it’s hard to learn French no
it’s not very hard if you too say
I will learn French
it’s easy I’m sure I’m talking
like the like the french players
it’s like a mother tongue to
I want to learn shorter
drawings a course of workshops
theater exchange rate to learn
the French culture good I like the
French hopes it’s like
the victor hogo story but i ‘m going
take the air all the stages of France
and I’m here now
life is a chance for us I
am going to make a comedian really very
well these times to laugh now it’s
the time to laugh now are the
words of rally I thank
[Applause]
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