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(English version) "I'm a gangster. The police knows me. Until today, my job was to rob banks and rape girls. Now, I realize that my life is more important than that "- Kasure is speaking. He lives in Goroka, Papua New Guinea. Now, he visits people with AIDS, and encourages young people to take responsibility for HIV. Someone asks: "What caused this change? "" For 20 years, NGOs have come to say: Do this, do not do that, we barely listened to them. Then a team of Constellation showed me my strength. So I use them! "
Appreciate the strengths of others: 5 years after the founding of the Constellation, we have not finished discovering its stripping power.
Evaporated, the idea that we Europeans, we would be developed. Should we not learn from others, just because we are richer than them? In Belgium, asylum seekers become agents of their own inclusion by offering their talents. By agreeing to learn from them, our country is growing: we're back on the path of development.
Questioned, our almost magic belief that technology can solve all our problems. According to this belief, the problem of AIDS would be solved with condoms and antiretroviral drugs. The ITN should put an end to malaria. Cameras in cities would be the solution to keep us safe. To allow us consume in a limitless way, solar energy will replace oil. However, it is from restored confidence in local forces, that lasting solutions will come.
Finally, gone the idea that there would be in one hand, the good guys and in the other less good guys: inhabitants of a suitable neighbourhood in one hand and gang-leaders of the suburbs on the other, victims in on hand and perpetrators on the other, straight people in one hand and all the others in the other, normal people in one hand and vulnerable people in the other. It's in appreciating each other's strengths, which emerges the unity of all.
Are we not all humans, with our weaknesses, but also with our strengths? For the first time in our history, we are aware that the fate of all humanity is connected. As we free ourselves from our prejudices, as we put our trust in humans, what strengths, what energy are then available! So whether it's AIDS, malaria, climate change, hope is renewed.
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