Gone from Dunkirk 6 months earlier for a sailing trip around the world, The 3 "Apprentis Nomades" and "La Julianne" accomplish their 4th initiative.
If you have young children in your family
all the activities to do at sea become very difficult to realize.
You have to stay home to take care of the kids,
until there is no more time to work.
The idea was initiated by the women
they felt the need of having a kindergarten
because it is not possible to go at sea with 4 children.
Not only because there is no security but also because you won't be able to work.
If you give all your children to the kindergarten, then you are free,
you will be able to work properly, at sea, in the bushes,
sell some goods, to Djifer, Mbour, Dakar.
The idea was initiated by the women.
A playground for the kids of Diogane
While presenting their organization,
VSF (Voiles Sans Frontières) really insisted on their focus on answering local population needs,
on having villagers taking part of all projects to make those projects sustainable.
The mission they have chosen is not conventional,
especially for the values it is built on.
They don't bring money but ideas.
Proving that it is possible to build a kids playground with local materials
In a sustainable and responsible way to open new social and economic opportunities.
Dakar, 1 week before the beginning of the construction work.
Can you cut something like this?
I want 5 dead tires with holes
Paul what are you doing?
A nap. It is not finished, we are only half way!
I know but its enough for me.
It's so great, we are very happy right now, we found very good…
… very good materials.
It will be ideal, we will be able to think about nice games to build up with that.
The idea is to tighten this up to make sure it doesn't move while sailing and take the mast out.
150km sailing towards the Sine Saloum
2.90 Meters, I'll go on starboard to see how it looks there
OK
He wants to know when…
I don't know where we are on the map.
La Julianne just grounded…
I'll try to go backward a bit.
So what just happened Norman?
We grounded a little bit on the sand.
But with a heavy backward move and a little luck we came out.
It is not very deep here is it?
No, not at all.
And now we have to hurry because there is less and less water, it is time to get there.
2.80 Meters Tide is going down.
When you arrived, I was so happy,
that I couldn't stop myself dancing.
At the shop… it was me
Many many children,
very dynamic, full of energy and very open
and the "Toubab" (all white in Serer) we are, always is a source of amazement for them.
And most important behind all this there are the villagers and mostly women
because truth being said there are not many men.
Always smiling, always joking, dressed in a very colorful way.
They bring this constant and tangible joy.
The women thank you so much, before God.
May the peace that brought you here pushes you further. Inch'Allah.
Here? No we are going to use the dinghy so we can return afterward.
The other area here will stay clear to build other classrooms
In case we need to build more classrooms.
We will use that area… until there.
Toubab! Hello!
So this is it!
Our team to clean the field.
It is progressing quietly…
The construction plan was set up at the arrival,
discussing with Salif and Ibé…
discussing together on how we were going to do things,
discussing with the future teacher of the kindergarten.
We took all of it into account and…
we really played the engineers, we thought it through, we made a plan!
We took the strategy to build one game first.
We started with the swing!
Big geometry review.
We are trying to draw a rectangle on the ground.
So there is clearly 2 ways of doing it.
Either you measure the length and width,
or you measure the diagonal that locks the angle.
Wouldn't we need a huge compass for this?
Or a human scale compass indeed!
I would love to use the second method,
the diagonal method Paul.
I place it further.
There is a slope.
Let's go.
Can I remove them?
There is something funny inside Téo
What is that?
The grocery shop.
My little workers!
At the beginning when you arrived with all your materials,
my head was like this!
I couldn't imagine making a swing with all these things
we see everyday here on the ground.
People coming were saying
"they always do the same thing every day".
You know what I mean?
That means their concerns are based on the changes we see on the field,
but not on the feasibility of the games.
"The two poles are still at the same place there!"
"They haven't done anything!"
But on the construction site, work is being done from the morning to the night.
I tell you what.
You show this to any HSE guy in France, you're done!
You go to jail!
Wearing slippers… sawing… on a concrete block…
You are dead!
This one is without wheels. There is another one with.
I saw them using it.
It is hot how I like it.
Toubabs in the morning.
Help! Toubabs in the morning!
Around 6.30 - 7.00am, the day starts.
We go get the breakfast at the wood oven.
They bake terrific bread!
The best baguette of Senegal!
To work we try to make the most of the freshest hours,
from 8.00am till 11.00 - 11.30am.
And if we succeed in this first part of the day,
most of it is done.
After that we go for lunch.
Take a little nap.
Because that's how it works!
You wake up early, you take a nap.
What marked me the most are these meals we have together,
it is spontaneous, we eat simply,…
There is apparently always a portion for everyone.
If he had been nice, he would have took it on his pirogue.
Far, very far and he would have throw it in…
It is him, he should have spoken!
If I want something, I speak up!
She was about to make braids all the way!
But now there was a change of turnaround of plan…
I'll get the "Tinga" hairstyle, aka "Toubab Toubab Toubab"
Now it looks more like small palm trees to my opinion.
This is it!
It's exactly the hairstyle you get!
Tinga, Fatima, Fatou
And now we walk by ourselves in the village,
we meet the people,
we learn a few words in Serer,
we start to say hello like the locals!
It is not tremendous what we can speak,
but a real communication took place
It is like if rapidly we were not strangers anymore but visitors...
Then rapidly we were not visitors anymore but actors!
Then quickly we were not actors anymore but…
people that live here, almost.
There are goats.
Goats, firewood, small basil…
We could not have such an integration in a country like France…
It is not possible!
Boubacar, Ousmane…
How are you doing? We are fine
One tea.
Fine one tea.
Come drink some tea!
Just one!
Wow there is foam!
There is a lot of foam!
He is small.
He is very small.
It taste better than usual doesn't it?
You really are like black people!
Like Serer people you know!
We don't even recognize you anyway.
For example,
On Dita harvest day,
You go all together and harvest, like everyone else,
you go fishing,
you are among us, you eat with us,
you eat with your hands, you drink what we drink.
You know there are some Toubabs if you give them this water they won't ever drink it!
Hello Toubab Painter!
What am I doing right now?
No, no, I don't care about that.
That's it then, I don't have much more to say.
You all know that the "Apprentis Nomades" are first of all intellectuals.
They all have an engineering background so I thought they would be very clumsy!
And I would bring the manual skills…
But they rapidly reversed it.
And revealed themselves, particularly when it comes to imagination…
Some reinvented woodworking, reinvented assemblies that exist for a very long time.
Very straight foreward, a swing made of a rubber tire and a piece of rope.
The idea is to start with a normal tire, that we cut.
Watch out because the tire is reinforced.
Then we turn it up side down to have a seat.
Here there are different approaches!
Mine, very sophisticated, goes like this!
And then we will cut the tire's edge to make a shape.
We are here on a flower shape but we could try to do something else.
… to get this wonderful swing seat, with a bit of colors this will be beautiful.
Well, we are making wooden animals.
Still with the local materials, eucalyptus and pirogue paint.
We try to make assemblies with integrating systems using a chisel and a driller.
Right here, I hope you can guess this is a pink flamingo!
The other part of the beak is coming.
Here is the camel on witch I am sitting!
the zebra… the jackal...
A real African farmyard in fact!
It was interesting to see the evolution as the construction was going on.
We first started with an idea rather…
… to highlight the noble part of the materials as we would do in France.
Raw wood visible, or even varnished...
We realized we would paint these games,
because it was the unanimous request of the villagers, Salif, Ibé…
So we made African games!
And we created a fantasy world…
… I didn't know existed by me.
It's great, it's colorful, it's really attractive!
The job is beautiful and well done!
A child learns much better while playing.
We are proud our children can study, it gives them some intelligence.
This is our greatest satisfaction.
This what we are the proudest for.
Thank you, Thank you!
Thank you very much!
You have to come back from time to time to learn Serer.
He speaks a little bit.
You? You don't speak?
You will get in there (In the Kindergarten)!
A big thanks
to VSF (Voiles Sans Frontières)
and the Nomads.
Integrated tourism
There was a rather clear discovery.
I mean we had never done any humanitarian aid.
When we wake up in the morning, we have an activity to do with the locals.
We discuss, we work together and we eat together!
It is not classical tourism!
I think I was kind of expecting this
and I was looking forward to living this kind of experience!
It was very participative the way we exchanged.
Therefore, it was critical for us to stay long enough!
To get a bit more immersed and look deeper in how things work in here,
what are the relations between people,
and on top of that I think we made real friends here!
I also think it is going to leave a deeper trace
about a kind of generosity and solidarity that we can witness here.
There are always children helping out, someone ready to give a hand,
we are not used to this anymore in France!
We manage to be unhappy with a lot of things, a lot of items.
And they are, for the most of them, very happy with much less.
That is because they are extremely bonded together,
because Diogane is like one big family!
I have learned that, I didn't know it before.
Everything is shared actually!
It would be interesting to adapt this in a certain way in our cultures.
It is a new type of "Toubab".
In Senegal, we call this integrated tourism!
Integrated tourism means coming and living together with the people,
understanding their activities, trying to take part of it
and also making yourself useful to the community you visit.
This is what integrated tourism is and this is what you have done here.
It is a wonderful way of discovering the world!
So if Apprentis Nomades can do this again somewhere else,
they will not hesitate!
I would say this is the tourism we want!
The "Toubabs" we want!
Thanks to the people of Diogane To Ibé and Salif who welcomed us as part of the family
To Jacques, Paul, Hugo, Larwin and Ophélie
Sine Saloum Brothers…
Thanks to "Voiles Sans Frontières" And especially to Max and Monique
Learn more at www.apprentisnomades.org
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