Effet Papillon (Butterfly Effet)
This organisation is borned from our awareness about people difficulties and our field experience in Nepal. In this way we have been thinking about could be done to help these disadvantaged societies. Through an anthropologic processing, we wish to get adapted to the social-economic context of the local societies in witch the organisation will get involved. That is why our main partners are the local organisation and the concerned population. The choice of our organisation name defines itself. A butterfly flap, a variation can produce from duplication or amplification a global change… Margaret Mead, one of the most popular anthropologists of the 20th century has written one day: “never doubt that a small group of people can change the world… this is the only thing witch has ever happened.”
Following these principle we are setting up our first project in Nepal, in close collaboration with “FACE NEPAL” and Patalahara village's “SHRISTI Club” and the “Women's Committee”. Our target is to improve the way of life of these village families, through an increasing of the local initiatives that are already there and to start up social actions for the education. In this way, all together we took the decision to build up a “community house” to join all the local organisation comities together and also a “child learning centre” for the children. This building is obviously open to everyone under the responsibility of a villager, whom will be choose with the agreement of the population. “FACE NEPAL” through is deep and thoughtful knowledge of the field insure all the project coordination. We have set up together real shared and trustable relationships, also we have instituted a driving committee with the villager for the project and his building. The clubs and the committee are fully involved and responsible. A lot's of ideas are coming from them and they are building the house themselves. Their enthusiasm, their seriousness prove that the success of projects is from the complete reintegration of the targeted people in the middle of the project, of their project. They are the action makers and we are just an help, an impulsion, a wing flap…