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Asmita Magar, 22 years old, Autonomy step Life Project Center Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal Tiktok is an application for short-form mobile videos like acting, dancing, or any videos showing some talent. This is for entertainment but also to raise awareness that we upload videos in this app. We are making videos about coronavirus in order to alert all people following our Tik Tok account. We upload videos in Tiktok because this app is the most used app by the Youth and it’s a worldwide app too. Last month we advised people not to handshake and to wash their hands regularly. Our next topic is : When and how to use masks to stay safe. Before putting on a mask, clean your hand with alcohol, based hand sanitizer or rub your hand with soap and water. Cover your mouth and nose with a mask and make sure there are no gaps between our face and the mask. When we want to go outside, put on masks everywhere, any time. https://www.tiktok.com/@lp4ynepal/video/6834023267565686017 https://www.tiktok.com/@lp4ynepal/video/6825860957579873538 https://www.tiktok.com/@lp4ynepal/video/6823947531236478210

[English version below] Valérie de Bretteville & Pauline Lemouchoux LP4Y Belgique Le 18 mars 2020, pour faire face à la terrible épidémie du COVID-19, nous sommes tous bousculés dans notre quotidien et contraints, en Belgique comme partout ailleurs, au confinement. De notre point de vue, la situation est complexe : rester chez soi, gérer la scolarité des enfants, assurer la continuité de son travail, incertitudes quant à l'avenir, risque de contagion,… Notre quotidien bascule et nous avons du mal à accepter la situation et les changements qu'elle engendre. Mais suite à un appel de Jean-Marc Delaporte, co-fondateur de LPY4, extrêmement préoccupé par les conséquences dramatiques que cette pandémie et ce confinement forcé, dans les pays où intervient LY 4P, vont entraîner, nous réalisons à quel point notre situation est privilégiée. Car nos gouvernements mettent en place des mesures de protection sociale et notre système de santé est performant. Il nous suffit de patienter et accepter, alors qu'à l'autre bout du monde, la situation est bien différente : à la crise sanitaire à laquelle les pays en voie de développement ne peuvent pas faire face, s'ajoutent les difficultés du quotidien des plus démunis. LP4Y décide alors de maintenir l'indemnité versée aux jeunes qui sont en formation dans les centres LP4Y, en stage ou en premier emploi, afin qu'ils puissent subvenir à leurs besoins vitaux ainsi qu'à leurs familles. Mais pour cela, ils vont avoir besoin de fonds supplémentaires. Dans ce contexte exceptionnel, mesures exceptionnelles ! Nous devons lever des fonds au plus vite pour soutenir ceux qui sont au front ! Nous nous sommes donc réunis au plus vite "virtuellement", afin de voir comment aider à notre échelle et toucher les gens sur un sujet tellement actuel, mais géographiquement si lointain pour eux. Après avoir échangé sur la difficulté d'avoir dû couper nos liens sociaux, de ne plus se voir, ne plus sortir boire une bonne bière belge…., il nous est venu l'idée de combler ce manque « social » en proposant un dîner ! Un « dîner solidaire » : Dîner tous ensemble, au même moment, en partageant une même cause, mais en restant chez soi ! A travers ce « dîner solidaire », la levée de fonds nous est apparu évidente : Dans cette période de confinement, nous ne pouvons plus inviter à dîner chez soi, ni aller au restaurant entre amis ou en famille, ni offrir un petit cadeau lorsque nous sommes invités à dîner chez des amis. Et si nous proposions aux belges d'offrir, sous forme de don, ce dîner manqué aux jeunes d'Asie les plus démunis. Nous arrêtons donc la date du du mercredi 1er avril, afin de partager ce « dîner solidaire » en famille, en restant dans le thème asiatique avec, comme menu « le Poulet Curry avec Riz ». L'occasion de partager et expliquer à nos enfants la situation des jeunes en Asie et pourquoi ce dîner. Ce fut un super travail de mobilisation dans nos équipes, de nos contacts, nos membres, de partages sur les réseaux sociaux. Et si nous étions, par la force des choses, chacun chez nous, nous avons eu le sentiment de partager ensemble une soirée et voyager quelques heures en Asie, en prenant conscience de ce qu'il se passait à l'autre bout du monde. Bref, une réussite totale avec des résultats qui ont dépassé toutes nos espérances ! Mais ce fut aussi, à notre grande surprise, le démarrage d'une série d'autres initiatives similaires qui ont éclos dans les autres entités LP4Y. En France, au Luxembourg, à Londres, les autres équipes LP4Y ont à leur tour mobilisé leurs réseaux autour d’évènements de ce type : dîners, apéros, soirées Solidaires au profit des Jeunes ! Nous sommes heureux d'avoir pu être les initiateurs d’un si beau projet et d'avoir, à notre manière, pu jouer le rôle de catalyseurs au sein de LP4Y. Au nom de toute l'équipe LP4Y Belgique, nous souhaitons encore remercier tous nos donateurs, qu’ils soient belges, français, luxembourgeois ou anglais, pour le soutien qu’ils ont apporté, et qu'ils apporteront, nous l'espérons, dans le futur, à cette grande et belle famille qu'est LP4Y ! All together we can! On 18 March 2020, to face the dreadful epidemic of COVID-19, we are shaken up in our daily lives and, in Belgium as everywhere else, forced into confinement. From our perspective, the situation is complex: staying at home, handling children’s schooling, keep working, uncertain future, contagion risk… Our lifestyle is turned upside down and we struggle to adapt to this new situation. But following a call from Jean-Marc Delaporte, LP4Y co-founder, extremely concerned by the dramatic consequences that this pandemic and forced lockdown, in the countries where LP4Y operates, will cause, we realize how privileged we are. Indeed our governments implement some social protection measures and our health system is performant. All we have to do is to wait and accept, whereas at the other side of the world, the situation is much different : the difficulties of the most vulnerable in everyday life is adding to the health crisis the developing countries cannot absorb. LP4Y then decides to maintain the indemnity paid to the Youth who follow training in LP4Y centers, are in internship or in their first jobs, in order to satisfy their and their families’ needs. But for this purpose, they need additional funds. Exceptional context, exceptional measures! We have to raise funds as quickly as possible to support those in the front lines ! Thus we gathered together “virtually” as soon as possible, so we can see how to help on our side and how to touch people about this so hot and so current topic, but geographically so far from them. After discussing the difficulties to stop social connections, to not see each other, to not go out for a good belgian beer…, it comes to our mind to fill in this “social” lack by intending a dinner! A “solidarity dinner” : have a dinner all together, at the same time, sharing the same cause, but by staying at home! Through this “solidarity dinner”, the fundraising appeared obvious to us : In this containment period, we can’t invite people to have dinner at our home, nor go to restaurants with friends of family, nor to offer a little gift when we are invited to some friend’s home. And if we suggested to the Belgians to offer, in the form of donations, this missed dinner to the most vulnerable Youth from Asia? We fixed the date of wednesday, 1st of april, to share this “solidarity dinner” within the family, keeping with the asiatic theme, “chicken curry with rice” on the menu ! The opportunity for us to share and explain to our children the situation of the Youth in Asia and why we organize this dinner. It was a wonderful work of mobilisation in our teams, of our contacts, our members, of sharing in social networks. And if we were, by necessity, everyone in our own home, we had the feeling to share a memorable evening and travel for a few hours in Asia, becoming aware of what happens at the other end of the world. A complete success with results which have exceeded our expectations ! But it was also, to our great surprise, the start of a series of similar initiatives generated by the other LP4Y entities. In France, Luxembourg, England, the other LP4Y’s teams organized several other Solidarities Nights in aid of the Youth ! We are glad that we initiated such a wonderful and meaningful project, and to play the role of a LP4Y Catalyst in our way. On behalf of all the LP4Y Belgium team , a warm thank you to all our donors, Belgian, French, Luxembourger or English, for the support you bring to us, and you will bring, we all hope, in the future, to this big happy family LP4Y is !

Elodie Cuau, 26yo Green Village Raipur, India This story is about 6 teams of Catalysts in all South Asia. 24 catalysts, crazy enough to embark on a journey of the same number of hours ; this meant-to-be event, was birthed first in Nepal, where two catalysts, Jeanne Allard and Pauline Delaporte, got itchy to get some action done while being - as the rest of the world - locked inside. Indeed, this long period of lockdown made us all creative to jump outside our daily routine on computers. Used to the day-to-day field work of a Coach, both frustration to see the Youth getting impacted by the Covid- 19 crisis, and willingness to get involved in a more concrete way grew deeper and deeper. We were using all the brain juice in the world to get help to them and keep them busy; boredom was clearly not in the picture. But the will to get physical remained. Add a kick of restlessness for the sport-lovers, numerous, in the LP4Y family, and booom ! There you have it : the perfect cocktail for bold ideas. Then, what to do ? How to be an actor of change in those messed-up, tangled times, yet to unravel ? That’s how we, catalysts, decided to get involved and organized inter-countries sportive challenges to crowdfund for the Youth we coach and follow every day. For a better future despite the dooming crisis, but also to motivate ourselves to do some blood-pumping, body-moving, insane-sweating-by-40-degrees action ! Filled by this will to get UP, to raise UP our help to the Youth, was born the #UPinlockDOWN challenge. First to get into the swing of things the 1st May at 6am, Taina Schwartz, Laetitia Hra and Clémence Laulan, with the help of Salomé, worked out during 24 hours non stop, between yoga poses, dance choregraphies, squats, badminton in the LPC Sangam Vihar in Delhi . On Saturday, May 2nd, at 3:00am, not even the rooster got a chance to bother the determined volunteers that organized their staircase ascension, up and down, up and down, repeat, repeat, repeat. For the Youth, for themselves. While watching the landscape view cleared from the pollution in Shantinagar, Kathmandu, Nepal, Pauline Delaporte and Jeanne Allard, could while climbing the last meters of their rusted ladder, see the Himalayas, a few kilometers from their flat. Still in Kathmandu, in the LPC Sinamangal, Clémence Guibert, Mathilde Grancher and Valentine Levy were carrying on, row after row, a warrior insanity parkour, that left a few incapacitated for 24 hours after that much muscle toning ! In Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines and in the Green Village of Raipur in In and Elodia, a few hours later, Eva Franchomme, Oona Wouters, Théo Morice and Sixtine Benault, as well as Manon and Elodie Cuau, Thomas Lepoutre, Gaëlle Boz, Albane Pournin and Pauline Davieau, kicked off their own marathons : a relay in their 100 meter length walkway for the firsts, and a 210 tours of parkour, for the number of Youth they had welcomed in training since the start, for the seconds. Last but not least, the LPC Malwani in Mumbai, India and the LPC Cilincing in Jakarta, Indonesia linked up from welcoming sunrise to farewell to the moon - a mental bond of 24 hours of meditation - with the participation of Gaëlle Muraca for India, Amelia Micelyn, Fanette Billot, John Delaporte and Romain Mailliu for Indonesia. Feeling united in this challenge, Gaelle Boz, after running 15 kms, shared some thoughts : “If it weren’t for them, I would not have finished. Because of the lockdown, I could not run like I was used to ; my left knee - fragile after years of squash rough sessions - started to hurt badly just after I hit km 5. Soon enough, I felt blisters on both feet, soreness in my thighs and bum. The 3 last kilometers were the worst, it was only 7:45am, but the temperature was already 37°C and I had been running on since 5:30am.. But I kept going. How could I think of my pain when I knew that the Youth were struggling to get the bare necessities to survive? If I was not finishing, I was failing them. Simple as that“. And fail them, she, we, YOU did not. As the result of the incredible support the team benefitted on social media, and financially, LP4Y has collected in return the compelling amount of 8 493€. To help Youth who were fired. To feed families. To ensure access to clean water. To pay medicine bills. To live.

Mariechu Peralta, 24 yo, Star from Bloom Program, Project Manager Stars Club Events & Youth Employability Life Project Center Tondo, Manila, Philippines I am Mariechu Peralta, former Youth of the program Bloom here in LPC Tondo. I am currently working for LP4Y as a coach for the Entrepreneurs, I became myself a Catalyst. I am helping them to find a decent job, and also trying to motivate them to fulfill all their dreams. I am leading the Stars Club, which is a group of Youth who finished the PTE (the Professional Training for Entrepreneurs in LP4Y) and now have to face the real world, outside Life Project Centers ! I am here to accompany them because I know that we can suddenly feel stress when we don't find a job.This is never easy but the key is to never give up. Last April 18th, actually it was around 7am in the morning, 50% of the people in Happyland were still sleeping when they woke-up in panic because a fire started to grow… We were all shocked… The damages of the fire affected around 500 houses and families. I was also sleeping in my house in Happyland when the fire started. Fortunately, even though I was affected, the fire didn’t hit my house totally, I am lucky. But I was so afraid for the other Stars and Youth of LP4Y who were in the middle of the fire… They are already facing the Covi-19 pandemic, which is a really hard time for us. I immediately tried to think of how I could help, so I started to reach some Stars and it was wonderful to see that all of them participated to give food packs and clothes for those who were the most impacted. Expats in Manila organized some raisings as well. I am also thankful for my colleagues who helped me, especially Anariza Cajodo (Tondo) and Axelle (Payatas?) - nurses of the Little Angels Academy in Tondo - they are the one who collected the relief goods from the community. I saw that even if we are facing a crisis, these people around me still wanted to help the most in need. Even the Youth affected by the fire contributed to distribute the donations collected by LP4Y, expats and community. At this moment I felt what really means the motto of LP4Y “Together We Can”. LP4Y created a special fire crisis fund, it helped a lot of Stars and Youth to re-build their houses. So thank you to all the donors for giving donations to LP4Y. This is helping a lot our community to stay strong facing this new crisis. We will for sure continue to mobilize and help the community in this time of Covid-19. And finally I am so thankful to all the volunteers who are still motivated to help the Youth even during this pandemic.

On April 18th, around 7am, a fire breaks out, ravaging Happyland slum in Tondo. More than 500 families are impacted. Stars and Catalysts of LP4Y Tondo launch the initiative of clothes and food distribution. Simultaneously, LP4Y catalysts from all over the world decide to send some videos and messages of support. It’s now the turn of the Youth of Tondo to thank them ! Marydee Castillo 22 management Joann Villarino 22 responsibility Abegail Ofiaza 20 management Rizza Rivera 22 responsibility Katherine Alcantara 18 responsibility Precil Olaguera 20 management Rose-Ann Alteche 25 autonomy Jhen Jhen Rivera 17 autonomy Mourene Hilario 27 star Aivie Dalina 22 responsibility Jemalyn Manozon 28 autonomy Jessica Argobano 20 responsibility Arlene Rebarter 24 autonomy Flordeliza Cezar 21 autonomy

Fitri Mulya Romadhani (19 yo), Adelya Maezelienne (20yo), Stars of the Life Project Center Cilincing, Jakarta, Indonesia The Stars of the LPC Cilincing took part in an action of solidarity, distributing foods to the ones in need in the neighborhood of Kampung Sawah, with the Food Bank Indonesia. In this video, two Stars, Fitri Mulya Romadhani and Adelya Maezelienne explain to you their actions!

In Mumbai several Stars from the LPC Malwani take the lead of food distributions initiatives in collaboration with AIMS Fondation to support the most needy ones. Zeeshan Khan, 19yo Sharukh Shaikh, 19yo Saddam Hashmi, 24yo Mehtab Shaikh, 20yo Stars of the LPC Malwani, in Mumbai, India

[French version below] Farahnaaz Shaikh is 24 years old. She's a Star (Alumni LP4Y network). She finished the « Professional Training for Entrepreneurs » of the Life Project Center in Mumbai in January 2020. For my part, I have been on mission for LP4Y since August 2019 and I'm coordinating LP4Y Alliance. Based in Kolkata for the last few months, I joined the Malwani Centre only a few days ago. So I met Farahnaaz for the first time on Saturday 20 June, when she stopped by the centre to discuss her situation. Farahnaaz is an impressive young woman. With her height alone! She exudes grace and a rare gentleness. We both sit around a delicious chaï (Indian spiced tea) prepared by Gaëlle, one of my « co-catalysts ». At first reserved, and perhaps a little impressed, because it's true that we don't know each other, it doesn't take long for Farahnaaz to open up. Her eyes light up and her smile widens by the minute. « Farahnaaz, she says, « in Urdu, it means always happy ». In India the name is chosen according to the position of the stars at the time of birth, and hers, it is true, seems meant for her. « Always happy », even when the path seems perilous.Farahnaaz does not fail. Two brothers, 27 and 19 years old, a 26-year-old sister, her father and her mother, that's what her family's like. Her mother and sister don't work. Her younger brother is looking for a job, whereas her father and her other brother work together in the production of bakery products. Evidently the last few months have been rough. Lockdown measures have been imposed on almost the entire Malwani district, forcing unemployment from which Farahnaaz and his family were not exempt. « Always depend on yourself » Before joining LP4Y in early 2019,Farahnaaz explained to me that she had a « void » of life: « Before LP4Y I had no life, no dream… always staying at home ». Her family, her ex-husband didn't allow her to be independent. With LP4Y, she is discovering a new world. She's learning English, to use computer software, but more importantly, to envision a possible future, making long-term plans and doing everything, always, to « depend entirely on oneself ». To begin with, her mother refuses to let her go through the program. But Farahnaaz insists ! And when she manages to get her to come and visit, meet the coaches, the other Youths, she finally lets herself be talked into it. From there Farahnaaz's future expands. And if Farahnaaz impresses me, it's above all by her deep understanding and so rare of what the word perspective means. For the first 22 years of her life Farahnaaz lived in 2D, on a flat background, an existence, a lifestyle she hadn't chosen... and even that she often had to endure. Farahnaaz had not yet learned to dream. Today Farahnaaz's identity, binding as any identity, has been considerably enriched. Farahnaaz is now an independent woman. Independence which she claims and cherishes in such a humble way that it immediately attracts the greatest admiration of anyone who witnesses it. This independence she owns it, it is something in her that is now rooted forever. Even if this independence has to be implemented and this for every day of the rest of her life. Her first steps in « job search » She explains to me, her eyes full of joy, that it was during her first job interviews that she was able to walk down the street without a chaperone ! For the first time, she has to go, sometimes quite far from home, alone, somewhere. This job search belongs to her. Naturally, the fact that she gets a job will benefit the rest of her family, but this job will be hers, her own! Because Farahnaaz is determined, smart and talented, that she practiced for hours with her coach Lorianne on job interviews, she quickly got her first job. It is a “tele-calling”company with a small but decent salary. Her face lights up as she tells of the joy she feels when the manager calls her back the day after the interview to tell her the good news. « For the first time he said he will call back... and he did ! I was hired ! ». The first day she's so nervous, her manager advises her to « have a good laugh» to relax. And she's still laughing about it! After a few weeks Farahnaaz quit this job, too far from home, and is then hired as a saleswoman in a computer hardware store. She will be fine there. Until April... The lockdown begins, the store lowers its iron curtain and lays off Farahnaaz... without even paying her last week's pay. Back home, confined, with the whole family since her father and brother also find themselves unemployed. There's a lot of pressure: Will there be enough savings available to feed the whole family? Spaces are narrow at home, the only water source (cloudy water…) is a 15-minute walk from her house. As for the job market, it seemed frozen forever... Yet Farahnaaz never gives up ! When I ask her if this period did not make her « lazy », if she didn't feel discouraged as she went along and as the days went by, she responds to me with incomparable gentleness « No coach, I never stopped looking for a job. » Every day Farahnaaz checks the ads on applications Naukri and WorkIndiaw which gives her access to job offers. And even though these ads are rare, she lists them, records them, prepares them and methodically calls each of the related contacts, always keeping track of those calls. 1, 2, 3, she responds to 30 ads facing 30 rejections. But no, nothing can be done she won't give up! So on June 1st, finally, she got a positive response. She will be one of the first LPC Malwani Stars to be back at work. I'm not surprised. It's not her dream job, she's back in a « Call Center », trying to sell life insurance. But it's just a step on her path. Farahnaaz didn't lose sight of the « Life Project Plan » that she drew at LP4Y : working in a bank! And not just any bank: the « Bank of Maharastra », nothing less than the government bank. It makes me smile, and I ask her why this one in particular. « Because this is a good bank ! People trust this bank ». Farahnaaz loves finance. Believe it or not, there are stars in her eyes when she talks about it. While she was first placed in the department « Communication » within the Micro-Economic Activity in which she participated as part of her training at LP4Y, she asked her coach to switch departments. « I wanted to be part of the Finance & Management Team ! ». Update the accounting books, open bank accounts for Entrepreneurs, count and make change, so many tasks she remembers fondly. She explains to me that working in a bank means having a decent job, in a good facility, stability and safety that will be valuable to her. She loves these meticulous tasks, she tells me that taking care of finances requires great precision and agility of mind. And she's absolutely right! Only to work in a bank Farahnaaz has to go back to school. She explains to me that she will have to follow a 12-month training which will cost her 50,000 rupees (i.e. 5 months of her current salary). Of course in order to be able to bear the cost of this training, she needs to save some money. These savings, she had already started....in the last few weeks it was completely eaten up. Farahnaaz « always happy » answers me serenely : « that's the way it is, coach, I'm going back to zero try to save 5000 INR every month on the 10 I currently earn. That's a lot of money, maybe every month I won't reach that goal. But it doesn't matter, I've planned 18 months before I'll have enough money to pay for my studies and to have a little money set aside to cover my training expenses.» Step by step coach. Rachel Cisinski, on mission for LP4Y since August 2019 currently working as Coordinator of LP4Y Alliance in Mumbai, India Farahnaaz Shaikh a 24 ans. C’est une Star (réseau Alumni LP4Y). Elle a terminé le « Training for Entrepreneurs » du Life Project Center de Mumbai, en janvier 2020. De mon côté, je suis en mission pour LP4Y depuis août 2019 et j’assure la coordination de LP4Y Alliance. Basée à Kolkata au cours des derniers mois, j’ai rejoint depuis seulement quelques jours le Centre de Malwani. Je rencontre donc Farahnaaz pour la première fois, le samedi 20 juin, lorsqu’elle passe au centre pour faire un point sur sa situation. Farahnaaz est une jeune femme impressionnante. Par sa taille déjà ! Toute en longueur, elle dégage une grâce et une douceur rare. Nous nous attablons toutes les deux autour d’un délicieux chaï (thé indien à base d’épices) préparée par Gaëlle, une de mes « co-catalystes ». Tout d’abord réservée, et sans doute un peu impressionnée, car il est vrai que nous ne nous connaissons pas, Farahnaaz ne tarde pas à s’ouvrir. Ses regards s’illuminent et son sourire s’élargit de minutes en minutes. « Farahnaaz», dit-elle, « en ourdou, cela signifie toujours heureux ». En Inde le prénom est choisi en fonction de la configuration des étoiles au moment de la naissance, et le sien, il est vrai, lui semble destiné. « Always happy », même lorsque le chemin semble périlleux, Farahnaaz ne faillit pas. Deux frères, de 27 et 19 ans, une sœur de 26 ans, son père et sa mère, voilà comment se compose sa famille. Sa mère et sa sœur ne travaillent pas. Son jeune frère cherche un emploi, tandis que son père et son autre frère travaillent ensemble à la production de produits de boulangerie. Evidemment ces derniers mois ont été rudes. Les mesures de confinement ont imposé à la quasi-totalité du quartier de Malwani, un chômage forcé dont Farahnaaz et les siens n’ont pas été exempté. « Always depend on yourself » Avant de rejoindre LP4Y au début de l’année 2019, Farahnaaz m’explique qu’elle avait un « néant » de vie : « Before LP4Y I had no life, no dream… always staying at home ». Sa famille, son ex-mari ne lui permettait pas d’être indépendante. Chez LP4Y, elle fait la découverte d’un nouveau monde. Elle apprend l’anglais, à se servir des outils informatiques, mais surtout à entrevoir un avenir possible, à construire des plans sur le long terme et à tout faire, toujours, pour ne « dépendre que de soi ». Tout d’abord sa mère refuse qu’elle suive le programme. Mais Farahnaaz insiste ! Et lorsqu’elle parvient à la faire venir pour visiter le centre, rencontrer les coachs, les autres Jeunes, elle finit par se laisser convaincre. A partir de là le futur de Farahnaaz s’élargit. Et si Farahnaaz m’impressionne c’est avant tout par sa compréhension si profonde et si rare de ce que signifie le mot perspective. Pendant les 22 premières années de sa vie Farahnaaz a vécu en 2D, sur fond plat, une existence, un quotidien qu’elle n’avait pas choisi, et même que bien souvent elle subissait. Farahnaaz n’avait pas encore appris à rêver. Aujourd’hui l’identité de Faranhaaz, contraignante comme toute identité, s’est considérablement enrichie. Farahnaaz est désormais une femme indépendante. Indépendance qu’elle revendique et chérit d’une manière tellement humble, qu’elle suscite immédiatement la plus grande admiration de quiconque en est témoin. Cette indépendance elle la possède, c’est quelque chose en elle qui désormais est ancrée pour toujours. Même si cette indépendance, il lui faut la mettre œuvre et cela pour chacun des jours du reste de sa vie. Ses premiers moments de « job search » Elle m’explique, les yeux plein de joie, que c’est à l’occasion de ses premiers entretiens d’embauche qu’elle a pu se promener sans chaperon dans la rue ! Pour la première fois, elle doit se rendre, parfois assez loin de chez elle, seule, quelque part. Cette recherche d’emploi, elle lui appartient. Bien sur, le fait qu’elle trouve un emploi profitera au reste de sa famille, mais cet emploi sera le sien, le sien propre ! Parce que Farahnaaz est determinée, intelligente et douée, qu’elle s’est entrainée pendant des heures avec sa coach Lorianne à passer des entretiens d’embauche, elle décroche rapidement son premier job. Il s’agit d’une entreprise de « tele-calling » avec un salaire petit mais décent. Son visage s’illumine lorsqu’elle raconte la joie qui la traverse au moment où le manager la rappelle le lendemain de l’entretien pour lui apprendre la bonne nouvelle. « For the first time he said he will call back... and he did ! I was hired ! ». Le premier jour elle est tellement nerveuse, que son manager lui conseille de « rire un bon coup » pour se détendre. Et elle en rit encore ! Après quelques semaines Farahnaaz quitte cet emploi, trop loin de chez elle, et est alors engagée en tant que vendeuse dans un magasin de matériel informatique. Elle y sera bien. Jusqu’en avril… Le confinement commence, le magasin baisse son rideau de fer et licencie Faranhaaz… sans même lui payer sa dernière semaine de travail. Retour à la maison, confinée, avec l’ensemble de la famille puisque que son père et son frère se retrouvent eux aussi au chômage. La pression est grande : y aura-t-il suffisamment d’économies disponibles pour nourrir toute la famille ? Les espaces sont étroits à la maison, le seul point d’eau (une eau trouble…) se trouve à quinze minutes de marche de chez elle. Quant au marché de l’emploi, il semblait figé pour toujours… Pourtant Farahnaaz ne perd jamais espoir ! Lorsque je lui demande si cette période ne l’a pas rendue « lazy », si elle ne s’est pas sentie découragée au fur et à mesure des jours qui s’écoulaient, elle me répond avec une douceur incomparable « No coach, I never stopped looking for a job. » Tous les jours Farahnaaz scrute les petites annonces sur les applications Naukri et WorkIndia qui lui donne accès aux offres d’emploi. Et même si ces annonces se font rares, elle les liste, les répertorie, les prépare et appelle méthodiquement chacun des contacts liés, gardant toujours une trace des ces appels. 1, 2, 3, elle répond à 30 annonces se heurtant à 30 refus. Mais non, rien à faire elle n’abandonne pas ! C’est ainsi que le 1er juin, enfin, elle obtient une réponse positive. Elle sera une des premières Stars du LPC Malwani à retrouver du travail. Ça ne m’étonne pas. Ce n’est pas le travail de ses rêves, elle est de retour dans un « Call Center », tentant de vendre des assurances vie. Mais ce n’est qu’une étape sur son chemin. Farahnaaz n’a pas perdue de vue le « Projet de Vie » qu’elle a dessiné chez LP4Y : travailler dans une banque ! Et pas n’importe quelle banque : the « Bank of Maharastra », rien de moins que la banque du gouvernement. Ça me fait sourire, et je lui demande pourquoi celle-ci en particulier. « Because this is a good bank ! People trust this bank ». Farahnaaz adore la finance. Croyez-le ou pas, il y a des étoiles dans ses yeux lorsqu’elle en parle. Alors qu’elle avait d’abord été placé dans le département « Communication » au sein de la Micro-Activité économique à laquelle elle participait dans le cadre de sa formation chez LP4Y, elle avait demandé à sa coach de changer de département. « I wanted to be part of Finance & Management Team ! ». Mettre à jour les livres de comptes, ouvrir les comptes en banque pour les Entrepreneurs, compter et faire du change, autant de tâches dont le souvenir lui est doux. Elle m’explique que travailler dans une banque signifie avoir un travail décent, dans un bon établissement, une stabilité et une sécurité qui lui seront précieuses. Elle aime ces tâches méticuleuses, elle me dit que s’occuper des finances, cela nécessite une grande précision et agilité d’esprit. Et elle a complétement raison ! Seulement pour travailler au sein d’une banque Farahnaaz doit reprendre ses études. Elle m’explique qu’elle devra suivre une formation de 12 mois qui lui coûtera 50 000 roupies (soit 5 mois de son salaire actuel). Bien sûr afin de pouvoir supporter le coût de cette formation, elle doit faire des économies. Ces économies, elle les avaient largement commencées… ces dernières semaines les ont complétement mangées. Farahnaaz « toujours heureuse » me répond sereinement : « c’est comme ça coach, je repars à 0. J’essaie d’économiser tous les mois 5000 INR sur les 10 que je gagne actuellement. Cela fait beaucoup d’argent, peut-être tous les mois je n’atteindrai pas cet objectif. Mais ce n’est pas grave, j’ai prévu 18 mois avant d’avoir pu rassembler la somme qui me permettra de payer mes études et d’avoir un peu de sous de côté pour assurer mes dépenses lors de la formation. » Step by step coach. Rachel Cisinski, en mission pour LP4Y depuis août 2019, actuellement au poste de Coordinatrice de LP4Y Alliance à Mumbai, Inde.

Tway Tar La Min, 23yo, Management step, Life Project Center Hlaing Thar Yar, Yangon, Myanmar My name is Tway Tar La Min. I am 23 years old and I am in Management step in the Myanmar,Yangon ,Hlaing Thar Yar LP4Y Coaching program. When I learned that the center was closing because of the lockdown, it was unthinkable for me, I thought “What will happen to my future?” During the lockdown, I attended Covid 19 virus volunteer program, Hlaing Thar Yar Youths network. At home, I had the responsibility of cooking, cleaning and washing the house. I also followed LP4Y digital training. During this period, I missed Hlaing Thar Yar LP4Y center, hearing my friends laughing and lunch together with my coaches. Now that the center is open again, my feeling is so great, I can’t wait to see my coaches and friends again. Since the reopening we are doing MEI work by department, digital training and volunteer time the youths can come to the center. Some youths are doing computer training, some youths are doing center renovation by small groups! For me, LP4Y is a place where I can explore my dream. LP4Y is important for me because before LP4Y I was asking myself “Who am I? What I do like and don’t like? What are my skills, my abilities and my hobbies?”. Now, LP4Y made me discover who I really am, what I want, and most of all, LP4Y gives me an opportunity. That is why LP4Y is important to me. At LP4Y I am working on my Life Project Plan. After LP4Y, I will find a decent job and improve step by step, so I will follow my dream which is to open my own shop. After I get my first job I plan to save money in order to buy a place where I can set up my clothes shop. I am still working on it. First, thanks to my LPP book, I learn how to look for a job, what I need to know and which skills I need to reach my dream job. We also have some guidance training, which allows me to think about my personal development. The IT training helps me to work on my resume and to send a professional email to apply for a job. Thanks to LP4Y and our partners, we can do mock interviews. I was lucky to do one with the CCI (French Chamber of commerce and industry in Myanmar). It was my first english interview. I felt very stressed but at the end I was so happy because Pascaline Griffon (Business and Marketing Manager at CCI France Myanmar) told me she could help me to find a job. It was interesting to think about questions I didn't think about before, for example imagine myself in 5 years or how to resolve problems with one of my teammates.

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