In an Islamic country, among the children of Abraham, in Nabeul: Janine, a retired former philosophy teacher, and Aracely, a midwife who used to work in a maternity ward and in centers for the protection of mothers and infants. Now we are part of a Tunisian NGO, "La Voix de l'Enfant" ("The Voice of the Child"), which brings us into daily contact with Tunisians. This is dialogue through life. La Voix de l'Enfant is an association which helps children in difficulty, and it fights against all forms of exclusion of children. Together with the Tunisians, we have the same struggles for the same values; we are placing the same bet on life.

1) We work in a Center which takes in abandoned children or children waiting for their biological mother to find a solution which will allow her to take her child back. The children are prepared to leave with adoptive parents, and parents prepare to adopt a child.

2) "I have a right to my mama." The aim of this project is to support, to listen and to accompany mothers who are alone so that they can be reintegrated in a society which is very severe towards them. "A place of listening", of encounter and of dialogue, "a space of freedom," which allows these women little by little to become upright and which gives them "reference points" for assuming their life.

3) The Association includes other activities:
A kindergarten in a very marginalized area where uprooted families live who are not well received; its aim is to help these children to begin a normal school life and to be harmoniously integrated. A center of animation for children in hospital, at the service of the pediatric department of the hospital: games, music, drawing, dance, theater… everything which allows the children to have a good morale and to get well faster.

Living dialogue today with Muslim Tunisians means rebuilding life with them, means letting people stand "upright", means fighting together for the same values. That is something magnificent! We invite you to try that same kind of "DIALOGUE".