Migrants, work schedule.

This work was conducted during a long period because students worked  on fair trade in the first year of the project and  during the second year they had to do  a ten-week internship in social service structures.

-         December 2012: lessons about migrants included in the curriculum.

-          In February 2012 : intervention of Jehanne Surel, a social assistant when the German  students came. She presented gypsies, their history and migration from India to France, through central and southern Europe. She also presented the area created to welcome travelers and she explained how it works.

-         During spring 2013, there was the first meeting with leaders of Manouche-Gadjé association; they presented the association, how it worked, its activities and aims (storybooks made with children). They talked with students about what it is possible to do together.

-         September 2013: realization of questionnaire for gypsies who are sedentary and for those who live on the temporary camp.

-         On September 20th : it‘s the first meeting in Quartier du Rond between several students and Nanou, co-leader of Manouche-Gadjé association. Some students will come back later to take pictures and talk to people.

                          First meeting with students and co-leaders from Manouche-Gadjé association.

                      Second meeting, students and children played pétanque.

    On September 26th, meeting with gypsies from the temporary camp, guided by Jehanna Surel, a social assistant who help these persons.

-         From October to March 2014 students worked about the different subjects, pictures,  layout. This work was carried out  between their  training periods and examinations. Some students returned to Quartier du Rond to meet Marie, the oldest person of this site, and her family.

-         April 2014 : students wrote letters of invitation, created  posters.

-         Early May : four students presented their  work and exhibition on a local radio.

-         On May 12 : preview of the exhibition «  be informed to understand »in the “Cercle des Citoyens” an associative café in Mont de Marsan.

-         On June 28: The exhibition was lent to the Café Music, a cultural association  organizing  a specific show about the different cultures  in  Jean Rameau public park.

-         Early September, the exhibition will be given to the Manouche-Gadjé association  to be presented during the association forum.