At 77, Katsuhiro has been a caretaker for twelve years. Since retiring from a small packaging company, he has never stopped working. “I contributed well, he explains with a smile, but with a pension of barely 100,000 yen per month (€700) I cannot live decently. » Rent, transport, food and a handicapped child leave him […]
The door remained ajar on this residential street in Soweto. A joyful hubbub resounded in the Dlamini family. About twenty people are crammed into the courtyard of the little house. The youngsters sunk into a sofa or sitting on overturned buckets listen to kwaito (1), the little ones shout and chase each other, a dog […]
When, at Christmas, after three months, Capucine found him, Mattéo had won “a few centimeters and a lot of maturity”. The young man put his French education on hold to study a year in Ireland, at just 15 years old. Right at the age when the Irish benefit from a “transition year” in order to […]
On an island cut off from the world, 64 boys live in a boarding school-prison, under the constant surveillance of despotic and cruel guards. When they break a rule or show themselves too curious, the children are severely punished, even being locked up in the “fridge”, a dark cold room. Méto joined the “house” at […]
Every morning, Angelo Bisegna, a 61-year-old Roman, leaves his home around eight o’clock and walks the 300 meters that separate him from the home of his mother, Maria Laura, 85. He helps her put on her compression socks, which she has had to wear since a recent operation, does her shopping, sometimes stays for a […]
The cross : What happens when we give thanks? Nicole Prior: Gratitude implies being able to appreciate what one has received. Sometimes it takes a lifetime! Family relationships are part of what I call a system of gift, debt and loyalty. It is therefore a tangle of feelings, attentions, received or not, appreciated or not. […]
After Christmas, gifts and family reunions, this is the time for good resolutions and assessments. After saying “thank you” for each gift received, can we imagine making this word the red thread of the coming year, to salute all the pleasures received, big and small? To also take an indulgent look at his loved ones? […]
“I no longer organize anything, relations have become too complicated” Anne, 35 years old “I have been in a blended family for five years and this year I am not organizing anything at Christmas with my step-children, aged 11 and 7, because the relationship has become too complicated. Something broke for me and I don’t […]
At Marie’s (1), we celebrate Christmas four times. “My parents and those of my companion are separated, so we celebrate Christmas a week before D-Day, at his father’s house. On December 24, he spends New Year’s Eve with his mother and our son. Me, I have an aperitif with them before going to my father’s. […]
Evening meeting in a Parisian Catholic high school on the theme of the French baccalaureate. At the bend of a question from parents of students, an alert sentence: “It is therefore necessary to carry out the census of your child from the age of 16. » Slight wavering in the room. Everyone plunges their noses […]