Prose de la rue

Je me prends souvent a penser, en regardant nos jeunes educateurs interagir avec leurs pairs, beaucoup plus ages et plus murs, montrant beaucoup plus d'assurance dans leur costume 3 pieces, qu'ils ressemblent a Mr Jourdain. Il font du "travail social", sans le savoir.

Les indicateurs economiques du Nepal

Un site interessant pour tout savoir sur la situation economique du Nepal  (et des autres pays a travers le monde)

http://www.nationmaster.com/country/np-nepal/eco-economy

On y apprend (re-apprend) quelques verites utiles a se rememorer:

- que le Nepal est parmi les 10 pays les plus pauvres de la planette en terme de GDP/habitant (cad la valeur des biens et richesses creees par le pays en un an, 240$), au niveau de pays comme Madagascar, Rwanda, Guinee. 

- de loin le plus pauvre d'Asie du Sud (GDP du Bhutan 300$, Bangladesh 400$,  Inde 650$, Sri Lanka 1000$)

- Le premier pays d'Asie (et le 31eme dans le monde) en terme d'inegalites sociales (coefficient de Gini, cf : http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_inc_equ_un_gin_ind-income-equality-un-gini-index)

Annecdotiquement, c'est aussi le:

- 171eme  sur 173 pays en terme de km de route goudronee par habitant (0.5km pour 1000 habitants, Inde: 3km/1000hbt, France:15km/1000hbt)

-143eme sur 145 pays en terme d'analphabetisme des femmes par rapport aux hommes (pour 100 hommes sachant lire et ecrire, seulement 40 femmes savent lire et ecrire).

- le SEUL pays au monde, avec les Maldives, ou l'esperance de vie des femmes est infererieure a celle des hommes

- 195eme / 199 en terme de population urbaine (avec 15% seulement de la population vivant en ville).

C'est enfin:

- le 1er pays au monde en terme de rapport du nombre d'ecoliers/nombre de professeurs dans le secondaire (61 ecoliers pour 1 prof, Inde: 18 ecoliers/prof,  France: 12 ecolier/prof)

- 1er pays au monde (avec le Bangladesh et Afghanistan) pour le % d'enfants de moins de 5 ans souffrant de maltrunition moyenne et severe: 48%.

- 5eme pays au monde pour le travail des enfants (derriere Bhutan, Mali, Burundi, Burkina Faso) avec 46% des enfants entre 10 et 14 ans exercant une activite economique (remuneree ou de subsistance).  13% en Inde.

- 2eme pays au monde pour la part de la main d'oeuvre employee dans l'agriculture: 93%. (Inde: 59%, France: 3%)

GANDHISM

  Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K.Gand hi Institute for Non-violence, in his June 9 lecture at the University of Puerto Rico, shared the following story:

    I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of Durban, South Africa, in the middle of the sugar plantations.

    We were deep in the country and had no neighbours, so my two sisters and I would always look forward to going to town to visit friends or go to the movies.

    One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance. Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in town

    My father asked me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting the car serviced.

    When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, "I will meet you here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home together."

   After hurriedly completing my chores, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. It was 5:30 before I remembered. By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was almost 6:00.

    He anxiously asked me, "Why were you late?"

    I was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, "The car wasn't ready, so I had to wait," not realizing that he had already called the garage.

    When he caught me in the lie, he said: "There's something wrong in the way I brought you up that didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth. In order to figure out where I went wrong with you, I'm going to walk home 18 miles and think about it."

   So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads. I couldn't leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered. I decided then and there that I was never going to lie again.

I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learned a lesson at all. I don't think so. I would have suffered the punishment and gone on doing the same thing.

But this single non - violent action was so powerful that it is still as if it happened yesterday. That is the power of non-violence