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Little crumbs of happiness

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"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.

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B) Esperiences of Intercultural dialogue

Auteur - auters

Petra Pekovec <petra.pekovec@gmail.com>

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Collaborations éventuelles (tecniques, de recherche, artistiques, etc.) dans la réalisation du travail (indiquer soit les personnes soit les organisations)

Name	Role	E-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

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English

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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.

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Interviews and life stories (audio,text, video)

Lieux géographiques auxquels font référence les événements narrés

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

Periode dans laquelle le travail a été fait

May - August 2009

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great job, petra

Gagovska Anita (1 commenti)

Dimanche 23 Août 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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