Wind of change
Hi! I am Daniela I am 34 years old, almost 35, I live near Milan and by now I have known ASCS for at least 5 years. For me ASCS is the concrete expression and manifestation of a strong process of change in my life and the real demonstration that “when something is for you, it is for you” and can only wait for you…
Five years ago, to be precise, I met during a week in the mountains, a young man-now an active worker for years in ASCS-who was about to leave with a group to retrace the trail of the Balkan route. So great was the enthusiasm and the Beauty he communicated with that experience at the doorstep, that by positive contagion and thematic interest, once home I sought out the association with which he was going to leave: ASCS to be precise. From there it was a succession and concatenation of events … I went to the presentation of the Balkan route project and to the group’s return aperitif. I then became interested in being able to leave on the mission but shortly thereafter there was COVID and my life took a different path, I moved to Turin and of leaving I lost track.
I did not hesitate to attend! It was an intense course in terms of themes and close relationships and, for the period of life I was living, restorative at times. However, at the completion of the course I understood that the time had not yet come for me to leave (as is also said by the trainers themselves, the ultimate goal is not necessarily the finalization of immediate departure but also just to see if the mission is really what for you), nevertheless, I decided to commit myself majorly to the local reality, giving my contribution in organizing and actively participating in The World at Home.
Then there was the turn of Through Cuneo, which gave me the opportunity to delve into and touch on such a topical issue as that of caporalato. Later, I participated in Through Trieste, which for me was a nodal passage, focal for my life because it put before me an urgent question: What do you want to do with your time? How do you want to use it and then donate it in your daily life? When I returned from Trieste, doors opened that had remained closed up to that point, allowing me to make an important and significant career change that I had long desired. All the way to the summer of 2024, which saw me committed as a volunteer for two months at the Migrant House in Guatemala City.
Looking back, it really seems as if ASCS was waiting for me, that with her I would have completed a path already laid out for me, full of personal discoveries, macro considerations, sharing with like-minded people, contaminations, sensitizations, achievements and established truths.
For me, ASCS has represented all of this, so, I give thanks for these two desires that have met, these two worlds that have reached each other and that I feel have borne fruit. Thank you ASCS, 100 of these 20 years to you!
