When the ASBL (non-profit organization) was founded on March 22, 2001, by R\u00e9gine, Hugo, Simon, Sylvia, Hulya, Didier, and other friends, Le Monde des Possibles was: <\/p>\n\n
A small 20-square-meter room where people could already experience encounters, joy, and the pleasure of being together while learning French. There were two tables and eight different chairs. <\/p>\n\n
A place already connected to new technologies and the nascent Internet with a 56k modem that sounded like a tin can and then ADSL that broke down half the time. French classes alongside social services and computer classes in a delirious hubbub. <\/p>\n\n
A small space on Rue du Potay next to Place Saint L\u00e9onard, with doors opening onto the park and the hill, people from all walks of life passing by and speaking words in every language, sometimes words of love. <\/p>\n\n
Tables on the sidewalk with food from around the world, friends, chairs, mismatched couches, lanterns that we watched from the top of the hill, music and good wine, recycled pots and pans, a daily anonymous donation of coffee, colorful garlands cut out of kraft paper, cigarettes crushed into the new vinyl, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne’s dog napping in the middle of the street and blocking traffic. <\/p>\n\n
There was a lot of laughter among us, newcomers from all over the world who sometimes slept under the tables in the courtyards at night, an improvised youth hostel, the cries of their children playing in the parking lot and kicking their ball onto the neighbors’ cars. <\/p>\n\n
Cooking workshops, drawing workshops, artivism… It was a certain conception of time as long and non-linear, as Damasio mentioned, we were aiming for Power in the sense of \u201cability to,\u201d embodied capacity to do, to act, to be. Power to carry and nurture the forces of life around us, to the point where nothing can weaken them, erode them, bleach their colors, or wash away their energy. <\/em><\/p>\n\n History tells us how the Le Monde des Possibles (MDP) has managed to retain its youthfulness, its openness to the world, its lightness and authenticity, how the unconditional welcome of people of foreign origin remains its priority, and how the fight for fundamental rights guides our daily lives. Boldness and joy that come from the here and now, a life that grows and acts, a life that creates a network, a fabric, a shared memory. <\/p>\n\n This is probably the case to varying degrees, depending on each person’s sensibilities: <\/p>\n\n Feeling that we can collectively combat injustice against people of foreign origin and situations of dissatisfaction; striving to act in accordance with our principles of emancipation and our values. <\/p>\n\n Striving to be a place of transformation and interpersonal solidarity; contributing to new forms of action in support of fundamental rights. <\/p>\n\n Believing in justice, criticizing the law when it is unjust; imprisonment of children, deportations… <\/p>\n\n Identify mechanisms that cause poverty, persecution, death, or suffering due to asylum policies, harsh working conditions, or gender-based violence. <\/p>\n\n Supporting collective entrepreneurship, the assets for creating subsidized or unsubsidized projects promoting social and professional integration. <\/p>\n\n Above all, we wanted to find ourselves in a space, a future third place, to share our expertise (educational, socio-legal, activist, etc.) and values that converged towards the same goal: greater social justice, freedom, and solidarity for the people of Li\u00e8ge of foreign origin, but not only them. The founders were convinced that fighting for the rights of undocumented migrants and migrants was also fighting for our rights and for a more just society. <\/p>\n\n The history of Le Monde des Possibles (MDP) is based on the principles of popular education: identifying how to work together to build actions (\u201cnothing about us without us\u201d) in response to situations of dissatisfaction, and how to support participation in regional\/federal policies that affect us. it is an integration of the practical knowledge of the 250 people (more than 50 nationalities) who place their trust in us every week as experts in real-life experience to increase their power to act and achieve socio-economic emancipation. <\/p>\n\n As founder R\u00e9gine Decoster said:<\/p>\n\n I am of this world, and I turn my weakness into strength.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nOur motivations: yesterday and today<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
Popular education as a driving force<\/h3>\n\n
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