[:es]Testimonios del Proyecto Agua en Lesbos 2019[:en]Testimonies of the Water Project in Lesbos 2019[:]
Testimonios del Proyecto Agua en Lesbos 2019
Hoy queríamos dar voz a una pequeña muestra de los voluntarios y voluntarias de PROEMAID que están o han estado en Lesbos este año en el Proyecto Agua 2019.
Son equipos que rotan cada 15 días y que viven inténsamente lo que es cambiar una vida y ver como se pasa del miedo al mar, del trauma, a la confianza y a la risa. Barreras como el idioma, la cultura o cualquier otra se deshacen y cambia la vida de quien ayuda, tanto como de quien es ayudado.
Así han vivido su experiencia.
Cristina, voluntaria de PROEMAID
«Él es nuestro amigo, del que hace poco os contamos que venía a la playa a ver las clases de natación y que no podía participar debido a su parálisis cerebral.
Ahora queremos contaros que finalmente se animó a meterse en el agua con nosotros y disfrutó, como cualquiera, del agua y de rodearse de buena gente.
PROEMAID y el proyecto Agua, sigue tratándolo como a cualquiér persona, dándole la dignidad que se merece. Porque esto es el Proyecto Agua, un proyecto sin barreras.»
Concha, voluntaria de PROEMAID
«Mi amigo:
Es un niño afgano de 6 años, que vive en Lesbos con sus padres y un ‘Big Brother’ como él le llama.
Cada día, baja con su mochila a la espalda a dar sus clases de natación con la ilusión de cualquier niño de esa edad, con la diferencia de que él se encuentra en un lugar que no es su hogar, y sin saber muy bien porqué.
Te agarra la mano mientras camina rumbo a la playa, y sientes como lo hace como muestra de agradecimiento a mi trabajo con él.
No puedo dejar de pensar cada vez que lo miro, que por qué tiene que vivir esa infancia de la manera que lo está haciendo.
Acaso tiene algún niño la culpa de nada.???
Mañana será mi último día de clases con él, y lo haré disfrutar jugando al balón y aprendiendo a nadar como lo he hecho en estos 15 días.
Te deseo lo mejor, campeón.»
Dani, voluntario de PROEMAID
Testimonies of the Water Project in Lesbos 2019
Today we wanted to give a voice to a small sample of the PROEMAID volunteers who are or have been in Lesbos this year in the Water Project 2019.
They are teams that rotate every 15 days and who live intensely what it is to change a life and see how it goes from fear to the sea, from trauma, to trust and laughter. Barriers such as language, culture or any other are undone and change the life of who helps, as well as who is helped.
That is how they have lived their experience.
«There is nothing more exciting than something you do or live the first time … The woman I help is 41 years old and she bathes for the first time at sea, her face reflects emotion, excitement and fear.
Hold my hand tight and although it gives way, it trembles with fear. While I teach him the first lesson with laughter, a thousand ideas come to mind, what will be his story, what will happen to get here, how will his life have been and is, …. and without remedy, because you hardly take us a few years, I compare your life with mine and I think that it is different and it has been my life and yours ….
She is Afghan, she has 4 children and she is a refugee, she waits in a camp in Lesbos, that a country gives her asylum and there she starts a new life with her family. When I’m in the water with her, I watch her try to float in the water and I think … Right now she is enjoying this moment so much, that neither the past nor the future torments her, for one hour the project water the free act.
At the end of the class she embraces me gratefully and tells me that she will return on Monday. Without understanding the language, our hearts come together and are filled with so many emotions that it is difficult to express.
Thanks Project Agua for so much !!! «
Cristina, PROEMAID volunteer«He is our friend, who recently told you that he came to the beach to see the swimming lessons and that he could not participate due to his cerebral palsy.
Now we want to tell you that he finally dared to get in the water with us and enjoyed, as anyone, the water and surrounded by good people.
PROEMAID and the Agua project continue treating it as any person, giving it the dignity it deserves. Because this is the Water Project, a project without barriers. «
Concha, PROEMAID volunteer
«My friend:
Every day, he goes down with his backpack to give his swimming lessons with the illusion of any child of that age, with the difference that he is in a place that is not his home, and without knowing very well why.
It grabs your hand as you walk towards the beach, and you feel like it does as a token of gratitude to my work with him.I can not stop thinking every time I look at him, why he has to live that childhood the way he is doing it.Does a child have the guilt of anything?Tomorrow will be my last day of classes with him, and I will enjoy playing the ball and learning to swim as I have done in these 15 days.I wish you the best, champion. «Dani, PROEMAID volunteer
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