An intern of The good Shepherd women’s Rehabilitation Center It will be for the first time in a conversation of the Bogotá International Book Fair – Filbo, on May 4.
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Internal for two years and four months, Diana Elena Montiel Galarcio has found a door to La Libertadnot through bars that open, but between pages that transform. Under the name of ‘Dimon’ pen, this writer shares her reflections.
His life took an unexpected turn ten months ago, when he discovered the healing power of literature through workshop ‘Coffee with aroma of books and freedom‘, a mentoring arranged by the District Government Secretariat to accompany those deprived of liberty in their resocialization process.
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“Reaching the workshop ‘coffee with aroma to books and freedom’ for me was a awakening from inside me out. I have grown a lot, it has served me first to free myself, because when I write my book I feel with melancholy, sadly, with solitudewith a uproot that hurts a lot. I begin to vent in each letter, each line. I, Diana Montiel, I feel free, and hence the result of the book; It is a liberating therapy for me, ”said Diana Montiel.
In the Rehabilitation Center Library, the beneficiaries are promoted by the Mayor’s Office of Barranquillain alliance with the Héroes de la Nación Foundation, “to write their own book through psychological, color, texture and edition workshops, where they have the opportunity to tell their history and inspire other women so that, when they leave, they have work tools and a new way of living,” said Juliana Gómez, founding journalist.
The work, called ‘Pader of Door 8’, He collects experiences from his writer, ‘Dimon’, from a deeply human look that invites reflection on freedom, forgiveness and resilience.
“The person who reads my book will find a woman who has suffered a lot, but did not stay in suffering or taking root. I get up in the midst of the painful process, I believe in me and I begin to do beautiful things for each of you. They will find face to face with that reality that I am living, and I am going to tell you in the midst of the affliction that we can get up, which depends on oneself, because the barriers put them in the mind, ”he said.
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For Diana, the support of the Mayor’s Office of Barranquilla has been vital in this resocialization process. “We see today the fruits in a book that we write with love, with love for all of you, and I am highly grateful to you as a governmental entity, for the exercise of this dynamic such as the workshop ‘coffee with aroma to books and freedom,’” he added.
“From the Mayor’s Office of Barranquilla we believe in the second opportunities, and that is why we bet on these processes of inclusion, dignification and integral development of all people, even in contexts of deprivation of liberty. This book and the representation of Diana at the International Book Fair are a sample of what happens when we sow culture, education and dignity,” said Nelson Patron, District Secretary of Government.
Besides, ‘Dimon ‘highlighted the change in mentality he has had through literaturemanaging to feel “released” despite being held in the good shepherd.
“Literature does change lives, because I am a living example of that. It reads, it is created. This process has allowed me to grow, feel free here inside. It helps us to live, first, internal growth, which is the most important; second, the rehabilitation process and the resocialization process. From here I go out for a good example to my family, my children, a society, a country and the world, ”he said.
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