After graduating from the Liege School of Physical Therapy in France (ESMK Liege), Severine worked for a year in a private consulting office in Paris, where, for the first time, she came into contact with patients suffering from loneliness.
In 2001, she joined Heart’s Home for her first mission in Senegal. After 21 months in Dakar, she became a permanent member, and was then sent, in February 2004, to New York to be part of the founding team for our first American Center in South Bronx. In July 2006, she went back to the French HQ to complete a one-year program in philosophy and theology.
From October 2007 to June 2008, she worked part-time as a physical therapist in Paris, while in charge of the monthly Heart’s Home French newsletter, the organization of cultural dinners and the training of future volunteers. In September 2008, she was sent to Geneva to go on performing the same work in the Switzerland HQ; she also worked part-time as a physiotherapist at the French border.
In November 2009, she joined ’La Ensenada,’ one of the Heart’s Home Centers in Lima, Peru, where she monitored some important repairing works to the house. Apart from accompanying the volunteers in her own center and taking part in the training of the Peruvian volunteers sent abroad, she also organized retreat weekends for the youth in their neighborhood and led a group to the WYD 2011 in Madrid.
She has just come back to rejoin the US Team for the opening of a new house in NYC.
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