My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Journey in an Unknown Culture
WORLDWIDE | Monday, 28 March 2011 | Views [151] | Scholarship Entry
Every year of my exciting legal studies confirmed my conviction that the road chosen by me is correct. The willingness to help other man and the attempt to understand the mechanism of the surrounding world were the spur to participate in a monthly project for the benefit of assistance to the victims of the civil war ('92-'95) in Sarajevo organized under the aegis of Polish Humanitarian Action. I helped the local people to return to ordinary everyday life: reconstructing their houses, supplying the necessary humanitarian assistance and teaching children English. The clash of the reality with my perfect image of the world was like turbulence of my life. The beginning of the crucial moment, which will happen. Follow my journey! Work with passion! This word has a positive connotation, and makes me a feeling that the whole world is in my hands. The crucial experience, as I perceived it, in addition to it being the next stop on my journey for self-enlightenment, was to provide legal advice in the Center for the Refugees and Repatriates near Warsaw, preparing foreigners for the integration in Poland. The effect of this research was my another monthly mission, this time to Rwanda. I could see with my own eyes the consequences of the Hutu-Tutsi conflict, destabilization of the state system, the tragic situation of the local people. In my work in that country I focused on the elementary education for children, including teaching English and Polish. This experience caused that I feel in my mind responsible for them. It also made me decide to join the program ''Adoption from the Distance" conducted by the Salesians supporting financially the Formation and Vocational Center ''Main” in Rwanda, in Gisenyi.This journey to the center of the evil was the crescendo of my intellectual revolution catalyzed by people who could awaken my mind, ignited my senses, and altered my perception of the world. The seemingly trivial case can mean a lot for a man in different part of our globe. It is property – one of the fundamental human rights, one of the pillars of taxes.
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