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when I decided to move from the sector
private humanitarian aid I started by
a master’s degree in england and in the
module in one of the modules of the masters there
was written security and safety so the
first course on this module the
professor arrived and asked us
questions the first question was
you are on a humanitarian mission
is the first thing you do
when you leave the house in the morning
I did not know too much and in fact it was
look on the front steps to know if he
did not have an antipersonnel mine
the second question was what is the
ball scope of a AK-47
so I arrived clermont ferrand the
ak 47 was not at all my everyday
so the ak 47 is a Kalashnikov in
done and so I said to myself but what is it
that’s because this short because actually
it does not make sense to me
will be I’m going to work in
the humanitarian so I will not be
insolent gold I do not want to do the
war so that makes no sense and
a few months later I arrived at
kabul
and there I arrive and at an airport with
international military forces
the Afghan military forces
nico slabs absolutely everywhere
armored vehicles and I told myself
maybe that eventually this course has a
meaning and that I will be able to use it
so why go from private to
the humanitarian then I would say that at
several reasons first in the private
I was managing crises that was of the kind
the machine is down we will deliver the
late customers it was a real
crisis a disaster
the industrial printer did not print
the color that the marketing department has
issued three days to choose and so this is
in parallel I still saw the
information and then I saw people who
were dying who had wars that they
had famines and I was telling myself there
there is still another world than my
printer crashes in fact
and then there was also a second
point that posed me a problem it was
profitability performance is at
to say that we were constantly in
search for performance and
profitability to give a little penny
shareholders and then we used everything
what we knew relay balance scorecard
the five rooms etc
and then when I went on vacation
with my son
in foreign countries we could see
example one of the children who were on
a wooden cart and waiting
actually their father who was in the process
to try to find them to eat in
the rubbish bins
and again I was telling myself there is something
who will not I could maybe do
something else in my life than trying to
raise money to shareholders
in fact
and then as a result of that I went
in a management school that you
know where I graduated
and in a rh module
there was a development module
staff we worked on our values
and so my values came out in
being bros the human being helps him the
happiness joy
and then there were other people
who were on the performance the
competition and I told myself but in
does not fit at all with my
job today to want to help
people so I say bah here
it’s time to change jobs and I
am going to do something else so I did
my CV with all my experiences
professional
I sent in ngos he actually
I realized that ngos do not
did not expect me because I received 0
answer we did it so it was quickly total
so that’s why I
decided to do this master in humanitarian
where I learned off the reach of bullets
of ak-47 the fact that humanitarian
it was beneficiaries but it was
also donors who have rules
extremely precise about the use
funds are listeners to
kpmg a bleeding air coming to kabul
to audit our project and our accounts
so the same as in the private
except we are in a country at war
that we also work with people who
are illiterate so to collect all
documents for tagnon listeners
it’s not easy every day
the humanitarian is also working
in political contexts and
geopolitics that are difficult one to
the army and we have insurgents we have
local mafias criminals and so
all that allowed me to be here
masters allowed me to learn that so
I found work behind and I
left in several countries
the mozambique indonesia the coast
of ivory and I finally arrived in
Afghanistan which was the country in
which I dreamed of going since
time for a little unknown reason
probably because I had seen
reports
change is not easy because
we go from a comfort situation to
a situation where we see less
family where I saw my son less where
we work in places that are
dangerous so the family is worried
and then professionally we are at a
level like that in the private and then we
go back a little bit like this
to start in the humanitarian so
it was not very simple now ten
years later I work in an NGO
I manage today an NGO that 700
people we have 65 health centers we have
two schools of midwifery two schools
nurses work on
hygiene nutrition projects and not on
cares for about one hundred thousand patients
per month so I am very happy
to have made this change at the level
professional because it’s this one
it’s a passion in fact ie
that we work in something that has
a passion and then every day it’s
managed with all the friendly people
but every day these voices we know
why we work motivations
they come from different
things but I would say mostly to see
our beneficiaries and see the result
I remember one my first visit
in fact in one of our health centers that
we have shapes and surgeons the
reconstructive surgery and we had some
little children and that they had been
burned and who no longer had you go from
necrosis and you could no longer move from
the same way and we worked with them
and we managed to make sure that they
find movement for example and
that was for the farmers for the
kids it was great then he
there are also health centers that we
have built in places where
people said to each other that
I ‘ll never have because there was
almost no road and who thought
that we would not get there and so when
he came to the buron then for us
thank with a little paper
of schoolchildren you wrote a speech
well here it was things that we
gives constant motivation
we also have people working with
voluntarily ie in 700
people but we also have 1000 volunteers
people who work in the east in
communities and who come to help
communities to advance to the level of
hygiene etc announced at the level of
dates of referencing in the centers
health etc
so these are groups that works
or men or women with these skins
mixed but in fact each on their own
works on projects etc
it’s one of the things that makes us
to advance on a daily basis is to see their
will despite the years of war in
done is also meetings that are
friendly g I’ll take the example
of a word there that I had met who
was following a meeting that they
like to see and who tells me I know that
you are French and I love blaise
pascal and there he had this great moment of
loneliness because you do not have the
less idea of what you are going to him
say on Paschal blaise and that’s
completely unexpected in afghanistan
so that’s it’s people who who
also teach you how to behave
with our culture and adapt so
with outfits that are going to be a little
different we can have August
we can have standard outfits we’re going
say for when we held them all
the days when we go to see the
ministries or cantoned in cities
and then when we meet people at a
little bit in the communities
in the countryside where people how
how do you say people who are not
not close to the government for example
we will dress a little bit like that
in a different way to to arrive
to communicate with them the difficulty of
the humanitarian is always to find
of motivation because it happens this
kind of thing for example one builds
health centers and then to
fighting so the fighting it’s this
that people live every day is
thirty years of war it’s people from
under 30 who have never known
something else than
that explosions that people feel you
you are only that war and then invasion
soviet then civil war then
the Taliban then the time and the
Americans who come with the
government against the Taliban who
as if that was not enough now
there are eyebrow shocks so in fact the
humanitarian workers alive in this same
context
at the level of our projects ie
we’re going to build a center
of health and then here it is in a
combat zone so that’s what’s
happening and then and even things like
what happens is that our
health center is going to be just exploded into
did because we were not the
target
but the car was enough
powerful for making an explosion
absolutely everywhere so that means that
every time we do something we
do not know if it’s going to be exactly
in durability because it can
explode the next day but we continue
because we know that there are things
positive and motivated by
example of the wise women who will be trained
nurses so this is the
graduation ceremony to see in
makes their family who are there and see
his daughters who come from no right
completely remote Afghanistan who
tomorrow will be able to cure people
because they came to our
School sometimes not enough sometimes we
really bad we are tired we have the
motivation at half-mast and we say we’re good
not going to get there what are we going for more
then we have to find solutions
to recharge your batteries
so it’s going to be a good book a good one
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it can also be a good movie so a
good movie for me it’s a movie where everything
okay there are no bad guys where everything
is going well is really with the happy
total ending because sometimes that we
missing a bit this side everything is fine
go through the humanitarian so I
look at things like mathieu’s
a lot of noise for nothing they are
this is to shakespeare from which you
have the green countryside of people who
are happy
all speak well and actually you to
look at a pub after you already look
in austin because there is downright
no bad guys at all then there everything is going
as well
and that’s it and that’s what makes you say
on board the 1 2 3 like this and then after
we leave and we motivate ourselves in relation to
does the beneficiaries go there they
are still waiting for us to be there
we try to help them one of
frustrations in the humanitarian it’s
that we have a very limited action
to say we will not stop the war on
will not save everyone we will not
change the world
so in fact we are focusing on that
we can do, that is to say we will
play we’re going to have for example a project
with x thousands of beneficiaries and we
is good at least that we had
something but you do not want to
do more than that because it’s
sometimes a bit complicated today the
humanitarian aid has become more professional
done for a number of years
and we have people who come with
science engineering degrees po
management schools and who seeks in
makes a different sense of business
for their lives who have values that
are a little different from the middle
professional and who are coming
to join we also have people from private
who come to join us because
just do not have too much sense
in what he did and they have
want to find sick to find
something else something
does not have to work
in war zones either when
we do Humanitarian there are places
quieter
what I wanted to tell you is that
it’s possible and if there are people
who are you talking to who have values
a little different
know that humanitarianism is very
it’s a passion we’re passionate about
what we do by helping
people and then it’s also very nice
and sometimes we can be proud when
we did something about who has
worked and that we have people who are
happy and who will have a better life
thanks to our thanks
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