Testimony from: Bab
It is in his shop dedicated to computer graphics that we meet Bab, thirty (30) years old, originally from the Dar Naïm district in Nouakchott. It is first of all thanks to one of the many neighborhood associations present in Dar Naïm that Bab manages to overcome his shyness, to go out to join young people and do theater at the neighborhood stadium, the theater often being used by young people to popularize and highlight social problems.
Indeed, Bab did not succeed in obtaining her baccalaureate after three attempts, so she followed professional training in a school that she describes as very expensive as well as computer science. It was also through the President of the Youth Association that she joined and his awareness speech that she learned of the existence of Caritas.
Bab has therefore followed since 2013 no less than eleven training courses, from personal development (which ended up giving him the courage to speak in public) to communication, including literacy and even violence against women. Bab was also the cashier of the Mauritanian Association Do not touch my sister which fights against gender violence. When we ask her about her choice to do computer graphics, she says that at the beginning, she thought that it was a job for men like many in Mauritania, but she still chose to pursue this path because She liked it and saw the fact of establishing herself as a woman in this environment of men as a challenge.
Unfortunately, she admits that even today, some people still have difficulty believing that her work comes from her, because of her gender. Bab explains that it is thanks to what she learned in her literacy and business training (which encourages young people to undertake business with little means) that she managed to open her shop because she “learned to communicate with people ". She adds that, moreover, it was by investing in second-hand items to resell that she was able to finance her store.
In the near future, Bab would like to expand her shop and have her own machines to be able to print her banners and have her own printing house, to no longer have to go through someone else. 'other. When the question of the changes in her life comes since she followed these numerous training courses, Bab speaks of real changes: she can now communicate with anyone, defend what she says, do her work without anyone's help, she can meet his financial needs as well as those of his young son and help his family.
She particularly tells us about her mother who always supported her and sent her to a private school so that she could succeed and admits to being proud to be able to take over to help her family. Finally, Bab nevertheless adds that she would have liked to be able to take accounting training in addition to her cashier training to really know how to manage her accounts.