Servas is an organization whose hosts and travelers are in over 130 countries. This organization is having a motto “Travel for peace”. It greatly supports and promotes the understanding and tolerance among different cultures. Pablo is one of the volunteers of this organization.
While spending time with him, my basic motive was to know about his involvement in Servas. I found that Pablo used to wear a smile on her face all the time. He had a great amount of energy. He got a chance to travel in a great range of European, North and South American countries while working with Servas.
Servas developed much with the help of Pablo. He tackled and controlled the international network of Servas with creativity as an honest and dedicated volunteer and so, he took the start for the Servas members to exchange their languages with the help of other Servas travelers.
This facility of language training along with accommodation is provided free of any costs through the Servas area hosts. This network developed and included many countries to it; Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, the United States and Canada. Spanish, Portuguese, French and English are the language options with no cost for the young Servas members to study.
His work for Servas does not ends up here. He is arranging and organizing and making planning for a youth summit for Servas which will be held in January 2006.
Its place will be the resort town of Bariloche, Argentina. These are the activities done by him after the regular work of Servas, as part-time. Here, have the pleasure to meet this positive energy package – Pablo Chufeni.
1. We want to know about belongings, profession and your place of living. Let us know about all this?
My age is 27 and I am serving as a theatre professor in different institutes. There are some other activities relating learning which includes the study of politics, French and Portuguese from a university. I am living in Rosario city, which is in Argentina.
Along with living, I am working for a social program of a developing bank here in this city. Another thing which I am doing is teaching the teenagers, who currently are at risk.
Another activity which could not hold my interest, was working as a general producer at a local TV station. I worked for it for 7 years but then found that it was time consuming so left it and tried to utilize my time in some other way. In my city, there is a foundation, which is serving for cultural promotion and I am part of it.
2. You are known to be serving for Servas from reasonable years. Where did you get to know about it and tell us about your first travelling experience. How was it?
While I was sitting at a coffee table, I heard about Servas suddenly. At first, I travelled to Europe but as a traveler, but then I thought of making my own Servas hosts group. I made it in my city and then devoted myself to this organization.
I have been called to Canada, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, UK and Uruguay for official meetings. I can not explain my deep experiences relating Servas in just some lines. It is really difficult to tell about them in just an hour talk. All my experiences were life changing.
3. What are those countries which you have been travelling while working for Servas? What were the belongings and kinds of those people whom you were hosting? What is the thing which made Servas special for you?
The list of the places which I travelled while working for Servas includes Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Belgium, France, Ireland, Portugal, and the UK.
This list will surely get bigger and bigger as soon as possible. People from Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil were being hosted by me at my home. I always welcome all of the Servas travelers to my home.
Servas not only gives people the opportunity to get together but encourages the others to do do for Servas as well. Servas is having great and devoted people. This is only the reason why they always ready to open their doors for you and feel it a pleasure to serve you by spending their time in chat with you and showing you Servas world.
4. Let us know about your 3 amazing or favorite memories about travelling?
I had the pleasure to meet a couple, man was from Angola and the girl was Mexican. They were really great. They met through Servas. She got to know him while staying at his home as a Servas traveler. Currently they have wedded.
In Brussels, a guy whom I met had the experience to eat the uncooked food. So, he had strong ideas about the flavors of food and health. He had opinions on the art of cooking that humans started cooking just by tasting the flavors by their tongue.
One of the amazing experiences which I can never forget is when I met an Arab person who was living in Paris. A show which was in Ute Lemper, was being seen by us together. I heard of the concert tickets of my favorite German singer but sadly, they were all been SOLD OUT! I was feeling bad about this.
But I got surprised when he asked me, Pablo! I have bought tickets to the German singer show tonight, would you like to go? And I had a great experience there with him.
5. Let us know about your 3 amazing or unforgettable hosting experiences.
It is not a thing which I can tell you as all of my guests which I have been hosting were really good in their own different ways.
A number of more questions were asked from Pablo, which you will find in another article here on this website. Pablo is a great person for inspiration so get to know more about him.
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