Solidarity & Migration 15-17 years Accessible
Round Table

Volunteering, an experience for life!

December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM (UTC+1)
Paroisse Saint-Jean-Bosco 79 Rue Alexandre Dumas, 75020 Paris
English, French
Come and meet former volunteers, as well as reciprocal volunteers (currently on mission in France). This round table discussion will give you a better understanding of volunteering, from preparation for departure to return, but also show you how it has impacted the lives, faith and worldview of these volunteers.

Speakers

Kathleen Mamie

Kathleen Mamie

Kathleen Mamie has left on a one-year mission to East Timor, from 2024 to 2025, as Human Resources Manager at the UCT (Catholic University of Timor).

Marine Marchegay

Marine Marchegay

Marine Marchegay spent a year volunteering in 2020-2021 in Koussieh, a village in Upper Egypt. She helped the Daughters of Charity with various missions: assistance in a dispensary, French lessons, visits to families. Now a nurse, Marine talks about her unique experience volunteering with L'Œuvre d'Orient.

Mondane Taillebois

Mondane Taillebois

Mondane is 23 years old. She has been working for almost a year as a paediatric nurse in a Parisian hospital. She loves her job, meeting new people, discovering the world and growing from all the beautiful human and spiritual experiences she has, such as volunteering with the MEP last year.

Rocher Djeguerbe Mbaiounda

Rocher Djeguerbe Mbaiounda

Originally from Chad and aged 29, Rocher is currently an international reciprocal volunteer at Le Refuge in Pantin. The aim of Le Refuge is to build a bridge between life on the streets, which is often brutal and de-socialising, and access to common law, in order to meet basic needs: physiological needs, security, belonging and self-esteem. Before arriving in France, Rocher was already very involved in social and humanitarian causes in Chad. In particular, he worked with UNICEF.