A couple of young doctors from Nantes are about to leave on a humanitarian mission in Togo. Before embarking on this adventure, they are training this week in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire near Nantes, with 80 other people recruited by the Catholic Delegation for Cooperationthe DCC.
“Togo, it was not us who chose – Explain Agatha– but we wanted to go away for a year as a family because we really wanted to give time and leave far from our ties, our comfort, to give time and put to use our professional skills that we had acquired during studies”. The cooperators most often leave between 6 months and 2 years on a missionfed and housed, “It’s not bad and then we just have an allowance adapted to local life of around a hundred euros for our family needs. The goal is also to get up to speed with local life and not to arrive as a than expatriates with lots of money”. “It’s a step to finish our training a little bit before settling down as a doctor and also being a little less mobile at that time.” adds Rock.
We really wanted to give time and leave far from our ties, our comfort, to give time. Agatha
The majority of cooperators work in Africa but we also find them in South America and in Asia. “Volunteers go to places of mission that we know well – precise William Nicholas the general delegate of the Catholic Directorate for Cooperation- because we are in contact with partners who express particular needs to us and therefore we seek to meet their needs by finding the right skills, the right profiles. We send all types of profiles, we are looking for a lot of jobs around finance, accounting, around agronomy too. And then, regularly and even quite historically, medical or paramedical professions. The needs are still very important.”
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