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I wanted, in some way, exteriorize a little from this space I’ve been
dreaming about. I wanted that my next congress of Family and Community
Health were within family and community. Better: if the congress was in
rural medicine I wanted it to be in the rural area, in a partnership
with the community in one of these places in the countryside. I wanted
it to have public participation. The speeches would be a mix of speeches
for the community and for the academics.
This congress would have a varied line-up and the hosting would be done
inside the community people’s homes. Lets discuss Family and Community
Health within the community, in community. Use the income and expenses
with the community. The coffee break and alimentation would be done in
the community centres of each place, and not in classy hotels in a sea
of inequality. This is not a crazy dream (just a little), but a good
logistics, integration, safeness and leadership can change this
perspective.
The intention of all of this would be to integrate the different
mediums. Share a little of this knowledge, open other dialogues. In my
dream I see the artisans discussing health with doctors and managers. It
would be living and not just passing through the congresses. It would
be changing perspectives. Picture this idea spreading across the world. I
would not get to know India or China: I would live the reality of that
community (a little of the reality of the country, but still). I wish
that on Sunday, when the congress was done, people went to their houses
not just full with ideas, but different. Wiser, with different knowledge
and wisdoms.
I also think that this would be complicated, because in the same time
that all the lights would be in that community, they would be turned off
and we would have to know how to handle this well. I do not know what
would be the impact of it, nor do I know if this is madness, but I also
see the madness of the tied-up congresses talking about everything with
too much confidence, expensive places out of my reality and out of the
community’s reality. Big coffee breaks, big openings, big hotels, many
gadgets, purses produced in the big factories. How about the handicraft?
However, I will not stop dreaming with something more tangible, more
“community”, more real.
I can even imagine the call: “Come and get to know Caratinga! Come and
get to know the central square of the city with less than 100.000
inhabitants, in the countryside of the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil)!”. Or in the rural area of Croatia (in honor to Veronika)..
Or
“Family and Community Health Congress in the slum of Maria Degolada, in
Porto Alegre”. Just getting there would be part of the learning process.
Not all the population is in the big cities, in the big centres. The
coffee break would be at the local bar, would be the food the community
eats. We could have an experience of how the rural work in a determined
region is, or have a speech given by the local farmer. It could even
have the circle with local healers and benzedeiras, women that cure many
things with the power of the prayer, and have a vast program discussing
Health and the life within Health.
These are the idea of the congresses I would like to see. Although they
might look like a dream, they are more real than the congresses I have
been going.
Mayara Floss
Translation Portuguese-English Augusto Carvalho
