{"id":19713,"date":"2024-06-13T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T13:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ascs.it\/?p=19713"},"modified":"2024-06-14T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:10:21","slug":"welcoming-and-being-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ascs.it\/en\/welcoming-and-being-welcomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming and being welcomed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcoming and being welcomed<\/h3><\/h2><\/div>
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My name is Micol, I am almost 31 years old and I have known ASCS for more than 12 years.<\/b> I came into contact with this wonderful association in 2012 when, curious about the world and eager for an experience that would challenge me a bit and allow me to become aware of my privileges and what it meant to make myself available, I decided to look for someone who would give me the opportunity to leave for a faraway place.<\/p>\n

Thus I found Father Ben<\/b>, I am aware of the immense good fortune to have been able to know him in his foresight and understanding of others, Manu, incredibly welcoming and with such a good look, and Luci, of disarming sweetness and generosity, ready to accompany me along my path<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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I had just finished high school and was going to start college in September, so I had just one month: a tiny and derisory amount of time to even think about being useful to someone, but it was a crucial growth time for me and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity I received.<\/p>\n

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I left for La Paz, Bolivia, in late July. <\/b>I was charged with excitement, confident that I would return with a fresh look when I returned and hopeful that my presence so fleeting would not be a nuisance. Here, I have never felt so welcomed as I did during that month at 4,000 meters on the other side of the world-I <\/b>hope everyone I met during those days knows that I carry them in my heart.<\/p>\n

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The impact for me was strong, when I came back I felt a little lost because I had realized that what ASCS does is something that is really needed and I, with my study and life choices, was going in a different direction.<\/p>\n

I started and continued my studies and then work in the pharmaceutical field, I no longer had enough time to leave for a new experience far away, but I never stopped being connected to ASCS in the initiatives it carries out in the Milan area: first with “The World at Home” and then with the “Afya” project<\/b>, through which I have had the opportunity to meet wonderful people and volunteers who always remind me to have an open gaze toward the other.<\/p>\n

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To ASCS in addition to “best wishes” for these first 20 years, I want to say “thank you” for giving new perspectives to me<\/b> and for “dreaming the dreams of others” every day, always finding ways to help each person realize them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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