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Little crumbs of happiness

"Little crumbs of happiness" is mainly a story about eight cheerful children and youngsters, staying at the daily centre for support of persons with intellectual disability in a small town of Southwest Macedonia. It is also a story of a volunteer who is experiencing a daily life in this small town, named Struga and located by the Ohrid lake, local habits and customs, Macedonian tradition, culture and contemporary way of living. Moreover, it contains personal feelings about everyday presence of the volunteer in this local community, and especially at the centre, means of mutual communication and nevertheless it describes the richness of cultural dialogue within Macedonian-Slovene newly established friendships and social connections.

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A brief passage of the story for the readers

Children having fun when taking pictures for the "Stories of possible Europe" competition at the centre
“How does it look Slovene house? Do you have any brothers or sisters? Can you tell me the names of your cousins, all of them? Do you have a pig at home in Slovenia? What about a cow? Can you draw me your home? Or they would ask me what I eat at home in Slovenia for lunch or “Do you also eat that kind of watermelon we are eating now in Macedonia?” Each day is as colorful as it can be in the presence of these children. The room is always full of laughter and cheerfulness. Even though we do not speak the same mother tongue we have adopted our way of communication.

Tags

Volunteering; Macedonia; Intelectual disability; Intercultural dialogue.
Children having fun during the summer outdoor activites in the garden of the centre

Thematic areas:

B) Esperiences of Intercultural dialogue

Author - authors:

Petra Pekovec <petra.pekovec@gmail.com>

The author or the authors participate as

Indivudual author

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Narrations
Narrative language adopted:
Other languages
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Text accompanied by photos and graphics
Other participations in the realization of the work (artistical, tecnical, about production, etc.)
NameRoleE-mail address
Lumturie Shemo Educator at CSPID PORAKA lumturie_sh@hotmail.de
Anita Gagovska Educator at CSPID PORAKA ani_gago@yahoo.com
Gordana Grceska Educator at CSPID PORAKA grce@hotmail.co.uk
Slavica Panova Photographer slavica1505@gmail.com
language
English
Other technical specifications about your work (production, duration, format, procedure of translation, dubbing, subtitling, etc)
Text produced in Microsoft Word document, photos: Adobe Photoshop programme, graphics made by SerifDraw Plus programme.
Final product in PDF. file, size: 2, 58 MB.
Duration of work: 3 months:
collecting ideas, presenting ideas to the stuff at CSPID PORAKA, searching for a photographer and final photo session, talking with the participants in daily activites at CSPID PORAKA about the purpose of the competition, story writing, graphics design, editing.
What kind of documents have produced or collected to make the story
Interviews and life stories (audio,text, video)
Geographical places where the events narrated took place
Struga, Southwest region, Republic of Macedonia
Country where the events narrated took place (if you want to select more countryes press ctrl and choose the countryes you want)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of

Time the work has been carried out
May - August 2009
Do you mean to participate to the award?
Yes

Comments

great job, petra

Gagovska Anita (1 commenti)

Sonntag, 23. August 2009 18:43:31

wonderful story. I know the kids very well, and when I was reading the story I was laughing and almost crying, because there are mentioned some things that seem to be very irrelevant in every days communication with them, but very substantial in their life.

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