The blog from Yves Duteil

Dear Friends

After Hurricane Thanes who crossed the area and caused extensive damage to school, our partners, many sponsors / mentors and donors have been particularly responsive. Received emergency aid quickly have to deal with priorities for buildings, equipment and school supplies of basic necessities. Companies have also mobilized. Thanks to you all the repair work is nearing completion, and the school is operational again for all children. We are faced now with a psychological consequence of this unexpected event: the fear experienced by the children was sent to parents, coupled with unfounded rumors of new cyclone, and even earthquake. Narikuruvars Some families are afraid and are not yet ready to send their children to school. Only some of the children came back about a third, and we are in contact with families to explain that the school can get their children safely.

It is against this background that Noelle and I anticipated the date of our visit ...

January 26, as every year, AFTER SCHOOL celebrated the "Republic Day" national holiday in India and we have this opportunity to express our gratitude to those who have mobilized in an emergency, our appreciation for the magnitude of the task accomplished in so little time and our pride in the team assembled to the crisis. The festival was more exciting than ever. Raise the national colors, show the children, traditional dances and songs were framed words gushed forth from the heart and testimony experiences, steeped in these times shared in anguish, and pleased with the solidarity that made it possible to erase the traces in within the school. It remains now to dispel the darkness of the storm, still present in families, and each case is considered individually.

We will make an assessment during February and we will keep you informed of course developments.

Meanwhile, we appreciate your trust and your continued support, and send you all our friends.

Noelle and Yves.

Also read the full article and editorial, to be published on the site www.apresschool.org

Friday, December 30, 2011, in the morning, Cyclone Thane severely hit the coast between Pondicherry and Cuddalore, taking 35 lives and doing enormous damage and thousands displaced.

After School was on the path of the storm, but all children are safe, for against damage to buildings and campus are considerable.

You will find all updated information on the site AFTER SCHOOL by clicking on the link below:

The damage is mainly due to fallen trees, some of which fell on the buildings, tiles blown away (about one third of the tiles were broken on the floor) and floods that have resulted because the heavens opened have rushed into the gaps.

The next day some of the family recovered his children, especially those of Tiruvanamalai, a hundred kms from the school. There remains a quarantine for which a makeshift shelter was built completely secure in the veranda of the "guest house" (guest house). They were able to return the same evening the ground floor of the dormitory that was clear.
Kitchen "emergency" was constructed in the computer room.
As against the school supplies books, textbooks, photocopier, computers, printers were destroyed by wind and water and must be redeemed.
Repairs to buildings may take some time because of the shortage of materials and labor on all sides sought to clear roads and restore the homes of villagers.

All aid to repair and buy the equipment are welcome.

Thank you for your support and friendship.

Since this summer in Corsica, writing a set of habits morning, and I kept the work rate of return for continuing to fill the pages of my books for the upcoming album. I can not comment yet on the content, because the songs evolve until the last moment, especially when we think we have done with a text, but a little new light lights up on a line or a verse for the enrich and improve the island ... My office opens on a small piece of the Mediterranean where the sun deposited the treasures of light. Sometimes, when the horizon disappears in the mist clears and the boundary between sky and sea, an island seems to float in the air like a cloud of stone ... One morning at daybreak, the sky offered this show, that I invite you to share ...

Upon returning from this summer studious, we undertook a long and exciting work, writing a biography proposed by Alain Wodraska, author biographies and other great Veronique Sanson, Renaud, Claude Challe, and several books on Barbara, Serge Gainsbourg, Alain Bashung, Alain Souchon and Francis Cabrel Laurent Wolf ... The release of this book, we are working together to collect documents, photographs and draw the course of a lifetime, to be published in the fall of the Archipelago 2012, along with the album of new songs. We also of course included concerts, and on the course of the tour "(fr) agile", many of these parties have supported three actions outstanding: September 30 in Ajaccio with Jean-Pierre and Christophe Marcellesi Mondoloni for "The Mary Do" , an association was born on the staff of "Air Corsica" to help families of sick and raise money for research against cancer . On October 2, in Grenoble, where "Rainbow" , celebrating 20 years of wish granting of sick children in the tent of Cirque Arlette Gruss in a breathtaking spectacle in the presence of Sophie Marceau, patron of the association, and finally the October 8, at Vaires sur Marne to help rebuild Haiti with groups and artists around the friendly association "Desire for Haiti" . On the morning of October 8, we visited near Saint Germain en Laye, where we celebrated the inauguration of the new kindergarten Yves Duteil Morainvilliers at the invitation of Mrs Fabienne Devèze Mayor and City Council Morainvilliers in the presence of Inspector of Schools, parliamentarians and elected officials of the department and the Region of parents, who sang, and students with their teachers, for a moment of pride in the honor I have my name associated with a school, but more importantly, sharing happiness with all those who designed, built and defended ... Finally, with all children, a real moment of joy to discover smiles and the prospect of trade to come ...

While waiting to offer you other new songs (and new songs!), I return to my sites through, where helmets are compulsory ...

I wish you a beautiful autumn, when I with you in thoughts and friendship ...

Yves

Foundation stone for the kitchen. Basically, the girls' dormitory is completed.

In Pondicherry, it is eleven o'clock on Saturday. The astrologer had not given us no other choice. Just when completed the construction of girls' dormitory, built with the support of coordinated corporate foundations AIR FRANCE and GDF-SUEZ, the foundation stone for the new kitchen has just been put through TALENTS AND SHARING (the foundation of current and retired employees of Société Générale). These two projects will allow successive finally have suitable premises, to release the current kitchen, currently installed in a classroom, and work towards our goal to eight classes, in order to apply for approval of high school. In the picture, basically, the girls' dormitory. This time we broke new ground by inviting parents to increase their participation in the daily life of the school for their children. Thus, one after another, they pose a stone, followed quickly by the cook, happy new premises, and under the watchful eyes of children, who lick their chops in advance.

A big thank you to our partners, AIR FRANCE, GDF / SUEZ and TALENTS & SHARING (Societe Generale) for their trust, and commitment to our side. Gradually, new sponsors / mentors continue to join us, and their relationship with children can both sides of fruitful exchanges, both by mail, by internet, using Skype. Sometimes, some of them come to visit their godson (s) by staying in the "guest house" (guest house) for AFTER SCHOOL .

You too can become the godfather or godmother of a child AFTER SCHOOL ...

(Click on photo to enlarge ...)

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Silence (relative) prevailing on the blog is humming writing, anxious to break new ground, midway between loyalty and renewal, a studious summer in preparation for the next album, to be published in autumn 2012 . It's a little far, but in terms of timing, it was very close. Today more people have seen the path between Tarantella (1977) and Dreyfus (1997), between "A lilac to Eulalie '(1975) and" The Language of Home "(1985), the musical evolution of "turns" (1972), "Having and Being" (2001). But only time will reveal the paths through the next book ("If I was your way!" ...) We go through a whole in its current rapid changes, but our "A" to each is made ​​of intimate moments and 'aspirations that connect us with mixed feelings in secret, without knowing what makes us like beyond our differences. When the lights go out in the hall, shared emotions do not they bring us together? It is in these magic moments that I measure the extent of our common horizons. And when I go looking for them, the fingers on the piano keyboard, pen in hand, guitar strap, I cleared my way.

And if you still accompany me in this long journey, I invite you to what I'm looking forward too to build, discover, and refine. I do not leave you, I sing, concerts connect us and give you some news for you to share this thirst for novelty, bathed in music and inspiration, by cultivating the pleasure of the scene still intact ...