{"id":21044,"date":"2019-04-26T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/blog\/la-maisonnee-et-nasim-une-histoire-dentraide-et-de-partage\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:17:30","slug":"la-maisonnee-and-nasim-a-story-of-help-and-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/blog\/la-maisonnee-and-nasim-a-story-of-help-and-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"La Maisonn\u00e9e and Nasim, a story of help and sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI really think everything I\u2019ve been able to accomplish is thanks to all the help I got.\u201d<\/p>When she first arrived in Quebec, <\/strong>Nasim got a helping hand from La Maisonn\u00e9e, and agency that helps newcomers. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nasim is a dancer and choreographer. In her home country, Iran, dance has been banned since 1979. The state\u2019s control over culture is so far-reaching that when Nasim was young, VCRs and VHS tapes were banned \u2013 although some cassettes were secretly passed around among families in her neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she was about 11, Nasim happened upon a secret tape of Swan Lake; she fell in love with dance, and knew she wanted to be a dancer, despite the ban. \u201cI realized that was what I wanted to do,\u201d she recounts. \u201cI talked to my family about it. They were surprised; they said to me: \u2018But where could we sign you up for lessons?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After five years of searching, Nasim found dance classes that were taught in secret, so she finally started to dance at the age of sixteen. As soon as she finished her training, she went on to pursue her passion in France, where she studied contemporary dance, took master classes, saw shows… Basically, she did everything she could to cultivate her art \u2013 everything that she could never have done in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Nasim moved to Montreal to continue to live out her dream. She found society in her new home to be very open. When she first arrived, Nasim got a helping hand from La Maisonn\u00e9e, a Centraide-supported agency that helps immigrants and newcomers. La Maisonn\u00e9e helped Nasim through the immigration process, but more than that, they were like her first family here in Quebec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grateful for the help and hospitality she received from the agency, and all too aware that arriving in an unknown country is always difficult, no matter what your living conditions, Nasim wanted to give back to the community: \u201cI really think everything I\u2019ve been able to accomplish is thanks to all the help I got. So I want to give others everything I can.\u201d She\u2019s become a volunteer for the agency’s homework assistance service for children who are recent immigrants to Quebec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHelping out gives you a whole lot of pleasure. I emigrated as an adult, and I found it difficult,\u201d she remembers. \u201cSo I imagine it\u2019s a lot harder for a child to understand why they\u2019re leaving their country, their friends, to go to a country that\u2019s very different from theirs. It’s important that there be people here to help them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Nassim <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c0 son arriv\u00e9e au Qu\u00e9bec, Nasim a re\u00e7u un coup de pouce de La Maisonn\u00e9e, un organisme qui vient en aide aux nouveaux arrivants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"547,5956,797,815,932,934","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[668,674],"tags":[671,675],"content-type":[709],"sector":[465],"class_list":["post-21044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volunteering","category-social-inclusion","tag-academic-perseverence","tag-refugees-and-newcomers","content-type-testimonials","sector-petite-patrie"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 04:18:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23930,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions\/23930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21044"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=21044"},{"taxonomy":"sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sector?post=21044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}