NON-COMMERCIAL EXCHANGES
Association of exchanges and of splittings cultural and technical between citizens of the world: Region of Auxerre (France) and region of north Befotaka (Madagascar )
Non-Commercial Exchanges (ENM)
Modern society is advancing technically. But for all that, it is still not able to provide basic needs, i.e. food, water and medicine, to a large part of the inhabitants of our planet.
" Think global, act local " wrote the great Jacques Ellul.
Non-Commercial Exchanges (ENM) came into being after a meeting between Méline and the community of the inhabitants of Befotaka in Madagascar and a few people here in Yonne.
Our association was set up to encourage those of us who care about this catastrophic imbalance, to contribute towards making a better life for those in Madagascar by providing them with our surplus equipment. We, in turn, can benefit from learning about their way of life and culture and relearn valuable things lost to us in our world of technical advancement.
Our aim is to provide Third World areas with the surplus of our technical world. In getting involved in these local activities, we can change the push towards selfish existence in our modern society and create new links between different cultures of the world.
Each human exchange, on this adventure, means meeting other people who feel the same desire for change. Each little action gives momentum to a bigger vibration and contributes to its transformation.
We think that nothing good can come from a world which abandons the Africans, and other Third World countries, to death through destitution and disease while itself, growing towards obesity and waste.
MELINE is paid 15€ / month, (that is 1/2€ a day) by the Malagasy government to take care of twenty five thousand people. The FAO (Food Administration Organisation, a branch of the U.N.O) esteems that extreme poverty begins at 1€ a day.
Nicolas SERSIRON
