Pigato Evelyn is a teacher at St Peter at Thionville. It is a bicultural school which means that courses are taught in French and German.
Evelyne itself is French, she was born in Italy and Villerupt by his parents. The Pigato were among the last wave of Italian immigration to France in the fifties, they came from Marostica. Mr. Pigato was a mason, his wife was a ceramist and seamstress: she sewed for any family.
Both were among the first members of the circle of the ULEV, Unione Lavoratori Emigrate Veneti, one of the three Italian Villerupt still active. Evelyn has spent all his summers in Marostica to sixteen. In Italy she travels incognito, she likes the feeling of belonging to the population. In 1996, freshly graduated teacher, she participated in an exchange program for French-German masters of the first degree in a German school of Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate: she taught French.
In school, there is a large group of Turkish children with learning difficulties. They take a liking to his course: their good results will give them a smile.
When Evelyn returned to 99, she taught at St Peter's School and continues to form. She spends her mastery of French language at the University of Metz, then a professional master.
In 2006, she was stationed at the school Centre and this is a click occurs. In his class there is an undocumented child: these young students live in constant fear of being deported to their country of origin. With Evelyn he will discover the world of asylum seekers and the antenna of Thionvillois RESF [2] , the education system without borders.
The network acts to implement the asylum applications of those people who arrive in France in difficult conditions then guides and monitors their application. It requires specific skills that are not and chooses to help Evelyn in his own way by taking charge of the children for outings and activities.
She manages to offer them such cultural activities through the Director of the Media Florange and also sports activities through a friend who opens his club tennis. That the fate of accommodation facilities where they live with their entire family confined in tiny rooms.
But standing in the network are much more in demand. In addition to handling all cases, they are able to respond 24 hours 24 to respond to a request for urgent help. It is an exhausting task and today finds Evelyn depletion of the core network of Thionville. With her friends she still held a Christmas party for children in a municipal hall simply to change their ideas.
Since she has been involved in the world of asylum seekers, she met here and in Germany, migrants in difficult situations. She befriended a professor of philosophy Congolese Guy Bosco Eba and PhD student Iraqi al Baghdadi animated by the same passion: to write what they feel.
few months after they met, they combine their poems and an artist's book takes shape through the illustrations Celeste, a painter from the region and Diego, the cousin of Evelyn, an Italian painter. War, papers, distress, life, love and hope are the themes of this book. Some copies were printed but no publisher was willing to take over for now.
Pigato For Evelyn, teaching is not limited to the transmission of knowledge but also involves the transmission of values and develop critical thinking students. Many people believe in these values of solidarity born around asylum seekers and we can expect a resumption of the network.
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