Laëtitia, a former resident of Josefa House, tells us about her experience
"I have repeatedly wanted to take the pen (the keyboard) to tell you about my rich experience of one year as an inhabitant in Josefa House. I wanted to describe the intensity of the experience and the gratitude that inhabits me for this year lived between us "all migrants". If, in October 2016, it is timidly that I put down my suitcases within the impressive House Josefa, it is, a year later, with hot tears and full of memories that I left the house, for other adventures. I decided to live there, intrigued by the idea of living in the field this "notion" of "all migrants" that I already learned, stumbling, the previous year on the occasion of an internship performed at the Josefa Foundation. If for some this choice, to live with people recognized as "refugees" therefore, seemed a deserving act even heroic, in fact this cohabitation and living together were most rewarding and finally, so natural.
I also wanted to thank the Josefa Foundation for the vision it defends fiercely. It is this vision, encouraging sharing in reciprocity, the meeting beyond labels, which allowed me to live such a beautiful year. Indeed, Josefa House did not ask me to take the cap of a social worker, a language teacher or others to help the animation of the House, the insertion of those said "refugees" she simply offered me to come as I am, with what I am. It was also in this way that I was offered the opportunity to meet the other residents of Josefa House, whether they came from Syria, Iraq, France, Belgium or elsewhere. It is this approach that has made it possible to feel the intensity of the encounters, to feel the bonds of friendship between us despite the language barrier, the different cultures. " Laetitia
