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“Hélène Tremblay’s books make Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days look like a weekend jaunt” “If there is a collection of books everyone should have in their homes, it is Families of the World, then maybe we could learn stories about each other that would spark our empathy and let us better understand the value of human diversity.” “We are convinced of the enormous value of this work as an instrument to sensitize and educate in a global perspective. We hope it will be used by a great number of educators in numerous countries.” “Our view of the world changed in one morning. Helene Tremblay took us on a visual journey around our planet Earth. Her beautiful photos and stories introduced us to families in many countries. Our hearts and minds were changed in the process. Your intercultural experience is outstanding and you are bringing up the real key issues. Nobody can remain unaffected! You are just the kind of keynote speaker that we need in order to promote intercultural understanding. All these powerful sentences, the touching message for human kind, the place where « Humanity meets Humanity, » that is where we took off with you, that is how we traveled the world between each word you said. The true passion within you combined all passions of all the girls who attended and revived humanity within each soul…So thank you, you’ve been an inspiration, or let me say, you’ve been a motivation for us to change the world. “To be able to meet new people in each country, to enter into their lives and become their friend, and then to have to leave again - that is something which only an exceptional woman could undertake.” Families of the World has been years in the making. It shows what one person can do if she has the will. Hélène Tremblay has the will, and she has |