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» The questions that burn on the lips of young Genneville residents flow with disarming sincerity towards the dozen Ukrainian children gathered, this Wednesday, within the walls of the Saâd-Abssi space.
Through filmed interviews, conducted as part of the Gennevilliers Teen Club video workshop, the war and its horrors are discussed in a mixture of laughter and broken English.
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For the second year in a row, Gennevilliers is offering a “respite stay” at its property in Ménilles (Eure) to forty children aged 9 to 16 from the area around Trostianets, an area under Russian occupation, in eastern Ukraine. .
On the menu: outings to Paris or to the sea, distance learning classes and workshops with French teenagers.
A way “to establish the notions of hospitality and openness to others”, underlines Gonéry Libouban, director of culture for the city of Gennevilliers
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