Caring for dreams
My name is Sara, I am 25 years old and live in the province of Turin. I have a degree in Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity. I try to protect old things like Homer, travelogues and my grandmother’s recipes from Emilia. At the same time, modernity challenges me a lot. I am interested in and care about migration, I think it is THE challenge of modern Europe, along with the preservation of the planet where I will live and many of us will live. I am interested in school as a place of sociality and education, and I am interested in it being the best it can be. I could be a teacher.
I met ASCS in Puglia, during a volunteer camp among the notebooks and bicycles, teaching Italian to migrants working in the countryside of Foggiano. I was 17 years old and it was a disruptive encounter, the one with migration, that lit a small flame that to this day has not gone out. Meeting Father Jonas, then, opened my eyes to a whole new style of experiencing relationships: the style of caring.
My experience with ASCS resembles a growing garden: in 8 years I have watched endless sprouts sprout with surprising spontaneity, taken care of them, and then admired the flowers and fruits of the different seasons. For me, ASCS has always been a place to believe big dreams and try to achieve them with visionary and sensitive friends.
The first time I entered a classroom to hold a workshop on migration, I felt that this was the right place and the right way for me; I felt that here was my chance to plant a seed of change. I believe in the younger generation; I think they will be able to read the migration phenomenon with lucidity and humanity. I wish ASCS to be for many young people what it has been for me: an incubator of dreams, a place where everyone is valued, a source of care.