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Name: Jocelyn Kapita
Age: 20 years old
Nationality: Belgian


How long have you been with GNRC and what got you involved with it?

I have been involved with GNRC for 3 years. I was asked by a youth leader in my church to participate in a conference on human’s dignity in Brussels, and I accepted the offer.

Which experience with the Arigatou Foundation that motivates you the most to work for children?

At the workshop in Saragossa, Spain, I realized that if I did not do something concrete, I would lose my time for nothing.  Besides, not everybody has the opportunity to deal with various problems related to children like we have done with the facilitators in the workshop. We should do something about it.

What are the challenges that you find in your efforts as a peace builder?

It is difficult to gather the youth. Here, the youths are too comfortable being where they are, so they do not want to go out of their ways to do something for others.

Do you have a message for other youth out there?

Let us be united and change the world, because who else would do it if it were not ourselves? Besides, the world belongs to us. 

What activities have you done to bring the message of Learning to Live Together manual with GNRC in your regions?

For the moment, with the help of my friends Dora and Nicolas, we have created a GNRC youth group in Belgium, more precisely in our town, Ottignies Louvain-la-Neuve.


About the youth group in Louvain-la-Neuve

Nicolas Meslaoui, Jocelyn Kapita and Dora Muanda, active participants of the GNRC in Belgium, took the initiative of creating a youth group in Louvain-la-Neuve. For their meetings with children aged 13 to 16, the group used the modules of Learning to Live Together manual, leading to discussions related to their identities, differences and similarities, among other subjects, and furthering skills for organizing more activities for local youths.