Why is this humanitarian action so important? In order to exist and perpetuate, the humanitarian message has to demonstrate its utility with words, with images, like bringing milk to children, distributing toys for Christmas or looking after wounded civilians … These are visible, perceptible and understood actions. Everything is a matter of communication. While less visible, collecting stories and giving the importance they deserve to the people sharing these stories and transmitting wisdom is about moving humanity forward throughout education, confidence (in you, in others), it’s about changing ignorance into empathy.
This empathy has a central humanitarian capacity, even if this action as evoked is less visible than others. Collecting stories is within a humanitarian action as important as supplying milk or food. Listening to people, being present, bringing them attention… All the interest is to give a voice to a story and its importance and to remember together the way things happened, the existence, the life of these people. For many of them this is a form of achievement. Sharing a story is a way of opening a window on their lives, to share important knowledge through personal experiences.
It also helps lot of people to put their lives in perspective. It’s an essential action than respond to a vital urgency of these people, whose impact has no limits because it influence the day-to-day life in bringing compassion between people. With this action come trust, knowledge, and hope. And such actions can have a butterfly effect leading to a long-term changing.
Aleppo every day heroes
Aleppo Watchers. If you look at foreign media, we show you the ruins, Daesh black flags floating in all the streets, collapsed buildings, missiles illuminating the sky ... death, but we do not show you hundreds of thousands of people for whom life continues here despite the war with courage, tens of thousands of children who go to school every day, hundreds of shops still open ... no. It will be about life. Most of them lost everything and are forgotten but they reinvent their life everyday, learn and try despite if the war. We need to understand the reality of the war, learn from them. You can read the stories every week online on my profile or on the profile of the association.
