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At the occasion of Roquette Live in November, the Youth of TDC Malwani introduced their center and MEI to the team! Enjoy an inspiring trip in Mumbai! Leonie Sohier, Joséphane Manière & Care 4 Change team, Malwani, India The Mumbai LP4Y Team The Youth of Malwani, Mumbai, gave a spectacular presentation before the Roquette Team. November 25th 2021 was indeed another most awaited day for the Youth, coaches and the supporting Catalysts at Malwani TDC, in Mumbai. Three young ladies from Mumbai – Sameera, Ishrat and Nisha – gave an online tour of their center to Roquette representatives during this event called “Roquette Live“. Roquette is not only a stupendous and world famous plant based business, but it is something more for Mumbai LP4Y TDC . They have been one of the biggest supportive partners for Malwani TDC, Mumbai. So it is indeed a very special moment for the team of Malwani. Ishrat, Sameera and Nisha are three young ladies from the Indian dream in Mumbai, they are from the excluded families for whom to have a minimum decent lifestyle is a far fetched dream. Mumbai is the financial center of India, where the richest people lead a life at the opposite end of the spectrum from those who live in more than precarious conditions. Most of the Youth in the center of Mumbai belong to the later social set up where poverty, lack of hygiene, little educational opportunities, high drop out rates are common phenomena. LP4Y has opened its door to these excluded community of Youth where they can come and realize their dreams. These 3 Youth gave Roquette an online tour of their center. They were the ones who planned and designed this online tour for Roquette representatives and Isabelle, a long time partner who has been working for Le Petit Journal in Mumbai and had relentlessly guided them to make this event a super success. In the beginning they introduced themselves and their reason for being in LP4Y and what their future goals for the long run are. All 3 of them dream to be working as professionals in the corporate world after their 6-month LP4Y Journey. They set out to show the nooks and corners of LP4Y Mumbai center. Then, 6 Youth in MEI training activity explained at the "Roquette Live" that they would train women and men of excluded community about menstruation, reality of menstruation beyond superstition, how to handle the stigma attached to menstruation, use of menstrual pads and usefulness of menstrual cup and after that they would organize some "questions & answers" and brainstorming sessions. Ishrat Sameera Nisha 1 -- Arshiya, Warkiya, Aisha, Manisha, Saiba and Kavita all expressed their feelings about the effectiveness of MEI Care 4 Change training on the platform as well. And how such MEI training giving practice is helping them to accumulate more knowledge for their personal and professional growth. 2 -- For Warkiya: “When I had first arrived here, I was shy, my communication skill was very poor. The MEI training that we impart to the community here is helpful in developing public speaking skill and confidence in general. Here we give training to so many boys and girls in the center , in schools , sometimes we work in collaboration with other NGOs. So it has been super helpful for my professional development". 3 -- Computer Room : Jyoti and Pooja also introduced their communication room to their impressed spectators online, there are both in full job search stage. The well connected Internet system and accessible computers are helpful enough for them to contact different workplaces online or give online interviews and stay connected with employers over phone on a regular basis. Jyoti said "In Mumbai the job market is dynamic and super competitive, to stay connected is very important for us , so it is helpful to be here most of the time." Youth also explained that they make their resumes by using CANVA application on computer, they can access Digital Inc. online training sessions here in LP4Y and how it is helping them to understand many necessary topics, sometimes they also receive online training from trainers overseas. 4 -- Office Room : The tour ended at the office room with a thorough look at how Catalysts work with the Youth throughout the day for the better functioning of the center, and project. “ Roquette Live” was impressive because the Youth are the ones who did the entire planning. Coaches and Catalysts just did the follow up with them. This type of exercises always hone their skills to organize and manage big events and prepare them more to take up new challenges. This Roquette live was not only an online tour for Roquette representatives. The Youth from the excluded community of Mumbai showed that now the world around them does not seem void any more. Even Roquette personnels know and believe that as compared to the little facilities they have got in this unequal society they have managed to advance towards their dream and it clearly shows that whatever little they have they are happy, confident and ready to take up challenges to improve more and bring about some changes in their lives and community. Sameera managed to find a job in Decathlon. Pooja and Jyoti got hired by a Mumbai based beauty Parlour in this month of December 2021. These Youth are all set to step into the professional world. A small step made forward would certainly lead to a big change. Indeed, Less is More.

On December 10th, the Green Village hosted its inauguration day with more than 50 Guests! Take a look! Green Village Lebanon

[English version below] Clémence Guibert, 24 years old, Coach LPC Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Nirmala Magar, 32yo, Entrepreneur Step, Manager LAA Life Project Center Kathmandu, Nepal See the answer of Mary Joyce Parco, 22 years old, Responsibility Step, Fashion 4 Youth program, Payatas, Manila, Philippines >> here See the answer of Saraswati Soren, 26yo, Management Step, Green Village Kathmandu, Nepal >> here See the answer of Khin Pa Pa Myo, 22yo, Management Step, Cotton 4 You program, her sister Khin Tazin Aye, 20yo, Responsibility Step, Myanmade program and their grandmother Daw Bo Ma, 73yo - LPC Hlaing Thar Yar, Myanmar >> here

Chandrashekar SAHU: He lives in Saragaon (the place where GV Raipur is located). After he achieved 12th pass, he didn’t know what to do, and heard about the training through some friends who have attended Batch 1 and 2. Thanks to the training, he connected to good partners and now work as an accountant. He has now 8 months of experience. He is 21 years old and works as an Accountant at Acculegal in Raipur. (on the left) I am from a middle-class family. In my house, we are 6 people. I had passed 12th before joining lp4y. After that I decided to join LP4Y. My family was supported to join LP4Y because it was a great opportunity to change my life. There, I learned things I never knew before and how to succeed. During the training, I learned a lot of knowledge and many things, how to build my confidence and handle myself better. We worked like a real company in micro company. Not only did I have English and computer skills, but how to become a professional and how to become more self-sufficient. English and communication skills. I feel more confident. I have learned how to be professional. We will gain more experience, and we will have more opportunities to find jobs in the future. After joining LP4Y I have been working as an accountant in a private company for about 10 months and I am very happy. I only hang out with my friends on weekends. I have more faith now and I can handle the responsibility in addition to this. Thank you to all the coaches, you work really hard to help us change our lives. I joined LP4Y in February 2019. Bhuvan LAL: from outside village, he found a job in SODEXO after LP4Y, and super grateful about his experience. He is 21 years old and works as a Service Staff in Sodexo Background My name is Bhuvan Lal Chandavansi. I am 22 years old, I come from a very small village Mungeli, which is 20 km from Dongargarh, I have studied till 12th pass, in that case I work as a laborer in the village. I came to know from a friend of mine that there is a Livelihood college in Dongargarh in which computer training is given for free, then I came to Dongargarh and filled the form and used to go to Dongargarh, but I used to work in Dongargarh, which used to earn money. He used to pour petrol in the bike and used to come to Dongargarh College when our training was over, then from there, he told me about Green Village Raipur, and I joined the Green Village. LP4Y EXPERIENCE I felt like Green Village is my mother from day one, just as Mother supports her child all the time and is always standing with her, in the same way, Green Village is always standing with me, I came from a small village. Only knew my local language, I did not understand Hindi, I was afraid to talk to people, that is why I did not talk to many people, the rest of people knew Hindi and English was the one langage most understood. But coaches used to support me all the time and used to motivate me all the time, always they stood with me when our training was over, so many people got jobs but I could not get it, that's why I was very disappointed. I was lost because I did not have much education, but the coaches kept supporting me. At one time I started thinking that I should go back home now, but the coaches supported me. For me to get a very good job. “Do not give up”. And then I came to know that Sodexo looked for workers. I said that I thought that Sodexo would be a small restaurant, but when I went there, I kept seeing that Sodexo was giving very big service. The company was there. I felt that I would not be able to get a job here as I could not find a job in many places but when I was interviewed, I was selected ther. I could not believe that I got a job in this big company, never thought that I would work in such a big company... Today it has been 1 year for me to work here. Today I am whatever I am because of the green village. Thank you my experience in the green village.I have never thought that the Green village changed my whole life. LEARN THERE 1.money management 2. Computer 3. Time management 4. Communication skills 5. Stand fear 6. Stay in professional attire PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 1. Speak to people. 2. Contact 3. Stay professional 4. Believe in myself 5. Started understanding Hindi and English 6. I am not afraid to talk to people MEI COMPANY LP4Y Greens village Raipur Aja Khaja, a Green Village Company, was in the company and I had a HR there in the post GV PEDAGOGY LP4Y in Green Village, all the companies used to be operational from Monday to Friday, but Aaja Khaja was running every day, because all the companies used to work on their own company in these restaurants, from Monday to Friday, on Saturday and Sundays everyone would work together. I loved this pedagogy for a family in Aja Khaja in Green Village. See the testimony of Sagar SAHU, Batch 1, Green Village Raipur >>here See the testimony of Laxmi SAHU, Batch 2, Green Village Raipur >>here

Among many other activities, Youth from PayataSport program got the challenge to practice yoga positions on morning. Since then, some regularly enjoy it! Here are some examples of postures that you can try at home.

[English version below] Théo Viron, 29 yo, Coach Chennai Community Champions of Change Program 1 Life Project Center Chennai, India Tout nouveau coach à Chennai en février je commençais seulement à prendre mes marques et comprendre mon travail quand le confinement est arrivé. Du coup on ferme, merci et au revoir. En réaction à cette crise, LP4Y a décidé de ne pas rester dans l’immobilisme et de trouver de nouveaux moyens et des solutions pour continuer à soutenir les jeunes dans leur intégration professionnelle. La manière la plus commune pour notre œil d’européen ultra-connecté fut donc naturellement la voix du digital. Deux raisons à cela il me semble, d’un côté nous sommes bercés par les ordinateurs, tablettes, smartphones depuis le plus jeune âge et d’un autre côté chaque jeune que l’on croise possède un smartphone avant d’avoir un travail. On se dit donc que s’ils ont un bel outil pédagogique entre les mains pourquoi ne pas nous en servir ? Nous voilà embarqués dans une nouvelle forme de pédagogie basée sur le digital, Le fameux E-learning ! Issu d’une formation en E-learning de 4 ans j’ai pu avoir un aperçu des bienfaits, des dérives et des limites de cette pédagogie. Enfin bon là on démarre avec les basiques de la pédagogie digitale, c’est à dire répondre à un appel vidéo et couper son micro. On met en place des règles simples : essayer d’être dans un endroit calme, essayer d’avoir de la batterie, essayer d’être à l’heure, essayer d’avoir de la data Internet, envoyer votre travail en fin de journée, etc… Mais voilà tout est chamboulé, ces règles qui nous paraissent simples sont dans ce contexte de vraies acrobaties. Il est difficile de trouver un endroit calme quand toute la famille est en lockdown, de charger son téléphone lorsqu'il y a des coupures d'électricité ou encore d’avoir de la data disponible pour faire une visio-conférence. Et malgré tout ça, une fois qu’on a réussi à faire comprendre à tout le monde comment on coupe son micro pendant que quelqu’un d’autre parle, on se retrouve avec un videocall digne d’un webinar de l’ONU plein d’agents secrets avec leurs écouteurs enfoncés dans les oreilles et le petit micro en main. Pour parler plus sérieusement, il est impressionnant de voir à quelle vitesse la team s’est adaptée à une Daily Confcall que je leur impose de manière complètement arbitraire. Premièrement un jeune, Sudhir pour ne pas le citer, a pris l’initiative de créer une attendance digital et un commitment board sur du digital, chose à laquelle je n’aurais jamais pensée. Deuxièmement, ils s’écoutent et s’entraident presque plus que lorsqu’ils étaient en training room, les clans et les petits groupes ont disparu, on a une team unie qui se donne des conseils et se permet de prendre la parole pour réexpliquer les choses en Tamil quand quelqu’un ne comprend pas (bon faut avouer qu’ils ne sont que 7). Et enfin je vois des progrès tous les jours, sur la prise en main de l’outil, sur la compréhension des sujets, sur l’utilité de faire une conf call... (Alors que moi je sais pas trop. Je pense que la semaine prochaine c’est eux qui vont m’expliquer pourquoi on fait ca…) On est en deuxième semaine de mise en place et ils respectent déjà quasiment l’ensemble des commitments. Certains commitments restent compliqués à mettre en place mais la volonté de bien faire est là. Et je crois que c’est ce qui compte pour moi. Durant mes études en E-learning, j’ai quand même mis un an pour réussir à rendre mes devoirs à l’heure, je ne vais pas commencer à leur faire la leçon. Surtout qu’encore aujourd’hui je mets une semaine pour répondre à certains mails quand je n’oublie pas … alors ne parlons même pas de la forme. En tant que coach j’aurais du mal à dire si cela a changé mon approche parce que je n’ai pas vraiment eu le temps de m'approcher. Mais le digital amène clairement un nouveau cadre, une nouvelle façon de voir la pédagogie. Le rapport entre la team et soi est différent. Les nouveaux outils qu’on développe amèneront une nouvelle dimension dans le post-lockdown et pourront peut être même créer de nouveaux computer trainings sur le télétravail. Affaire à suivre... Prochaine étape de ce coaching 2.0 : mener des débats, faire des présentations et qu’un Youth puisse leader de bout en bout un videocall. New coach, freshly arrived in Chennai in February, I was just starting to get the hang of my mission and understand my work when lockdown happened. So we closed the center, end of the game with no date defined for the return game. In reaction to this crisis, LP4Y decided to go ahead and not stand still. They looked for new ways of work and solutions to continue the empowerment of youth in their professional integration. The most common way for our highly connected occidental mind, would naturally be the digital way. From my point of view, there are two reasons for that, on one hand, we could say that our baby bottles were filled with computer stuff, we handled IPad and smartphones since the first hair on our skull. On the other side, every youth that we meet here has a smartphone in the hand long before he has a job. So, we can easily jump to the following conclusion: what a beautiful tool they have, why not using it? Here starts our Journey in a new form of teaching and training based on a digital approach. The famous and worldwide known E-learning! Coming from a 4-year E-learning course, I was able to get a glimpse of the benefits, the drifts and the limits of this pedagogy. Well, here we start with the basics of E-learning pedagogy, meaning the 101 training: how to answer a video call and how to mute the microphone? We start with simple and easy rules: try to be in a quiet place, try to have charge on your phone, try to be on time, try to have data, send you work to the coach at the end of the day, etc… But everything went upside-down at first. These rules that we think simple became in this context a pretty serious challenge. It’s very difficult for the youth to find a quiet place when all the family is in lockdown, to charge their phone when electricity shutdowns are quite regular or even having data for a video-call is hard to get. Despite all this, when everyone gets the point of muting his microphone when someone else is talking. We have the feeling that we are witnessing a UN conf call worthy, full of secret agents with their earphones plugged in their ears and their little mike in their hands. More seriously, it is very impressive to see how the team adapts to this new tool that I introduced without having consulted them before. Firstly, one youth, Sudhir, that’s his name, took the initiative to create digital attendance and propose a commitment board, I was personally not even thinking of implementing those tools. Secondly they listen and help each other even more than they used to do it in the training room, and small clans just disappeared. We can see one full team united where the most experimented give advice to the beginners, and even take the mike to explain something in Tamil when the information doesn’t pass on properly in English (I have to admit that I have only 7 youths and it helps) Finally, we can see progress every day, on taking over the tools, the comprehension of the subjects treated, the usefulness of the conf call. I feel that I’m sometimes more lost than them, and I feel that in a couple of weeks they will give me a lesson on the purpose of E-learning and E-doing. It’s only the second week since we started E-learning and they are already following all the commitments. Some commitments are harder than others to stock to, but they are showing motivation to follow and respect them. And I think that for me it’s the most important aspect. During my studies, I was a full-time E-learning trainee and motivation and commitment was one of the tough parts. It took me almost one year to send back on time my assignments, so I won’t be the one who blames them. Especially when today I sometimes still need one week to answer an Email when I don’t forget… let’s not even talk about content and form. As a coach, I will hesitate to say if E-learning has changed my pedagogical approach. I didn’t really have time to try another approach before lockdown. But E-learning clearly brings a new frame, a new dimension to training. The new tools that we are developing during this time will certainly bring new assets in the post-lockdown and, who knows, maybe LP4Y will have new computer training on the teleworking. Stay tuned… Next step of the 2.0 coaching: start some online debates, do speeches and individual presentations and lead a conf call from start to end.

Rojina Tamang,17 years old, Entrepreneur Step, Life Project Center Kathmandu, Nepal At what age did you start to draw? I started to draw when I was at school at 6 years old. What makes you start to draw? I don’t know exactly why I started to draw or paint but my brother and my father know how to draw so it comes from my family! Also my pasteur draws very well. How did you learn to draw? I learn by myself. I started by drawing simple flowers. Why do you like to draw? I like to draw because my dream is to be an artist. What do you like the most to draw? What I like drawing the most are people, cartoons and different flowers.

Su Na Di Oo, 18yo, Autonomy Step, Myanmade Program, Life Project Center Hlaing Thar Yar, Myanmar My name is Su Na Di Oo, I am 18 years old, I live in Hlaing Thar Yar, Yangon and in LP4Y I am in Autonomy step. My qualities are Listening, Friendly, Polite, Open-minded and Respect each other. My skills are Dancing, Negotiation, Swimming and Customer relationship. My weaknesses are not very confident, Shy, Afraid. It is ok for me but a little difficult for relationships with each other. Now I am at home. I take care of my grandmother. She always says "You don't leave my side and you don't go outside, stay with me". I'm always sad for her because she is not healthy, but I'm happy because I think she still loves me. I'm very happy. She doesn't want to leave me. I love her so much. I live together in her room.💜😁💜 Today is Myanmar New Year Day. But with COVID-19, I feel a little worried for my family, my friends and people. I want to take care of you. I miss you my friends and coaches💜😑💗. You can feel my love and caring with this delicious Burmese New Year Recipe, it is called Mu ant lone raypaw: 1- Mix Rice flour and Wheat flour with a bit of water. Make little balls and insert chocolate inside (it is a special type of Myanmar Chocolate, it is very special, only in Myanmar!) 2- Drop the balls one by one in boiling water, they sink to the bottom. Once they start floating, they are ready! 3- Rinse them with cold water and wait for them to be cold 3- For a more beautiful effect, put them in a coconut shell and shred some fresh coconut on top. You're all set! Enjoy! See more recipes by the Youth >>here

Laura Baptiste, 25 years old, Coach Howrah Program 2 Life Project Center Howrah, Kolkata, India [English version below] Dans mes lointains souvenirs de chimiste en blouse blanche trop grande sur ma paillote de lycéenne, un catalyseur, en français dans le texte, c’est la substance qui provoque ou accélère une réaction et modifie ses composantes à son seul contact. Tout part de là. « A son seul contact ». Là réside toute la puissance et l’efficacité du catalyseur qui propage une énergie bienfaisante, suffisamment génératrice pour toucher et entraîner dans son élan celles et ceux qui l’entourent. Pour quelqu’un qui adore modeler le monde de métaphores, cela fait forcément écho en moi et plus encore en mission sur mon terrain de jeu préféré : Howrah. Être un coach catalyst, c’est choisir puis décanter l’information pour soi tout d’abord, puis apprivoiser les bons termes et les bonnes tournures de phrases qui feront « tilt » dans les esprits. Les ampoules s’allument au-dessus des têtes, et les jeunes assimilent d’abord l’information puis comprennent soudain, et c’est là que la magie opère, qu’ils peuvent avoir eux aussi un impact, devenir eux-mêmes catalysts et agir dans leur entourage, qu’ils peuvent être un maillon de la chaîne qu’ils n’auraient jamais imaginé prolonger. Ils se sentent acteurs, considérés et prennent conscience qu’on leur fait, peut-être pour la première fois, confiance. A leur tour et à leur contact, l’environnement de chacun.e se verra alors transformé grâce à la générosité de leurs mots et au partage. Les idées ne seront pas pour autant uniquement répétées mais digérées et c’est là aussi toute la beauté du défi : ne pas simplement reporter mot pour mot mais s’approprier un message et le transmettre à sa manière. Être un « Youth » catalyst, c’est aussi faire dévaler et entraîner cette boule de neige, déjà bien arrondie, jusqu’à l’un des piliers qui façonne LP4Y, celui des partenaires. Car ce sont eux, les vrais « reporters sur le terrain de leur vie », et quoi de plus gratifiant de voir que cette confiance cultivée en amont les emporte pour faire fleurir des champs de témoignages inspirants et d’idées novatrices. C’est tout un écosystème qui prends alors confiance en eux. Un écosystème qui transperce les frontières du bidonville, et qui au travers de la rencontre, des témoignages partagés, rend possible la mise en place d’initiatives plus durables et collaboratives, pour les jeunes et par les jeunes. Tout cela requiert de l’énergie, une énergie qu’on apprend à orienter et concentrer avec le temps, pour entraîner cette réaction en cascade, cet effet boule de neige et ne pas rompre la magie en chemin, ou ne pas tomber dans le piège d’un mauvais téléphone arabe. Chacun des piliers investis dans l’exercice doit pouvoir puiser dans le catalyst précédent l’énergie nécessaire à la propagation du message. L’élan peut donner le tournis, certes, mais il faut garder en tête la beauté du résultat et l’idée que tout seul on va plus vite, mais ensemble on va plus loin. Être catalyst LP4Y c’est, pour finir et selon moi, faire le lien entre les forces, c’est mutualiser les idées et transformer tout ce que l’on fait à la puissance « Youth ». As far as I can remember, when I was a high school student in my too-large white lab-coat on my lab-bench, a “catalyseur” here written in French, is what is triggering or simply accelerating a reaction in order to alter it right after the only and sole catalyser’s contact. Here we are. “The only and single contact”. In here lies the power and the efficiency of the catalyst that is spreading a beneficial energy, generative enough to touch and to bring into its wake the people around. For someone who loves to shape the world with metaphors, this will definitely resonate in me and even more during my mission on my favourite playground : Howrah city ! To be a catalyst as a coach is all about choosing and decanting the information for yourself first and then taming it in order to use the right terms and the right sentence structure that will click in their minds. The bulbs are lighting all of a sudden above the heads and the Youth, after having digested the information, will suddenly understand, and here is the magic trick, that they can create an impact as well. They can become catalysts themselves and take a big action in their own environment. They are able to become a part of the chain, the same one they would have never thought they could continue before. They feel like they are actors, they feel considered and they take heed of the trust we assign them with, maybe for the first time. Again and in turn, thanks to their only touch and contact, their environment will therefore be transformed with the help of the generosity of their words that they share. However, the ideas are not necessarily repeated from a foolish mouth : they are also processed and here is the second beauty in the challenge ! Indeed, we are not witnessing a simple word-for-word communication but a smart and in-their- own-style message. To be a catalyst as a Youth is also all about sending a snowball in your tracks (that is already a big one, to be honest) down to the hill of one LP4Y pillar that is to say : the partners. The Youth are actually the real “reporters in their life arena” and what can be more rewarding than seeing the trust we planted in you some time ago is now blooming to result in fields full of inspiring testimonies and innovative ideas ? The entire ecosystem is thus trusting them. An ecosystem that is crossing the slum areas borders, and in which we can put in place even more sustainable and collaborative ideas for the Youth (and by the Youth!), by means of meetings and priceless sharing times. For all this is required a huge amount of energy. The kind of energy that we learn to create, to angle and to concentrate over time, in order to generate this chain reaction, the snowball effect and to avoid losing the magic on the way while not falling into the trap of a bad “Chinese whispers” game. Every single pillar involved in the action should draw from the previous catalyst its energy needed to convey the message. The consequent burst can make you dizzy, true, but we should keep in mind the beauty of the results and the idea that all alone we go faster, but together, we go further ! To my mind and to finally conclude, being a LP4Y catalyst is being the link between powers and strengths. This is all about transforming and raising what we do to the power of Youth !

Aileen Salin, Coach Community Champions of Change 2 Life Project Center, Chennai, India The lockdown has been for us a perfect opportunity to get to know our direct neighbors better. At block 52, the one in front of the center, two families spend most of their time outside - cooking, playing and chatting - on what has now become an extension of their apartment. Lockdown or not, the people of Kannagi Nagar live outside. Not surprising when you know that they live in 15m². So, outside of the fact that the men of the building are not working anymore, the lockdown has not changed their life habits so much. On our end, things are quite different : we used to leave the center as much as we could to discover our city, meet our friends or play volleyball. Today, we spend all of our time at home (obviously) and we are craving for human contact ! Without even realising it, we have hence settled a new ritual: we spend ages on our terrasse, observing and interacting with our neighbours from 52 Tsunami. They seem to like this new relationship as much as we do. To be honest, we don’t have much to say to each other and the communication is difficult as their english is not much better than our tamil. But we try, we guess, we laugh and step by step we are starting to know them better. Today, we know most of their names, their job and who is married to who. We also know who are the funny ones, the shy ones, the angry ones… Among these 2 families there is the amazing Dhurga, who joined LP4Y 3 months ago with her little Shabrish. Luckily, this cute baby helped us to break the ice : when you don’t have anything to say, a funny face addressed to a baby followed by a laugh for the parents will always do the job ! On top of being so kind and welcoming to us, they are incredibly beautiful. Hence, I was happy that they accepted to participate in my photoshoot last week. With Clarisse, we thought it could be a good way to show how the lockdown looks like in Kannagi Nagar, without miserabilism and far from the images portrayed in the media. Of course, it does not mean that life is not tough for these 2 families who can now only count on Dhurga to bring money home. But life goes on and it is probably not the first hard time these families had to face. As a reminder, we are located in Tsunami : the entire area has been built to welcome the families who have lost their house (and maybe some loved ones) when a tsunami hit the east coast of India in 2004. These pictures are also for us a way to always remember this new funny relationship that we now trease very much. When all this will be finished, we plan to install bamboo fences all around the terrace to gain some privacy : today we know that the bamboo fence will definitely need a window!

Asmita Magar, 22yo, Autonomy Step, Life Project Center Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal See the answer of Mary Joyce Parco, 22 years old, Responsibility Step, Fashion 4 Youth program, Payatas, Manila, Philippines >> here See the answer of Saraswati Soren, 26yo, Management Step, Green Village Kathmandu, Nepal >> here See the answer of Khin Pa Pa Myo, 22yo, Management Step, Cotton 4 You program, her sister Khin Tazin Aye, 20yo, Responsibility Step, Myanmade program and their grandmother Daw Bo Ma, 73yo - LPC Hlaing Thar Yar, Myanmar >> here