France Gall • About Africa (English Subtitles • Interview 2010) • ST SM / SME FR

“There is a force on this island, which has comforted me.” France Gall first visited Senegal at the end of the 1960s, with a camera in hand. “I went there like any tourist. I started pulling out my camera to take pictures, right away… I had to realize that was the wrong thing to do. I educated myself directly on the field. I understand them so much now.” (1) The real encounter took place 15 years later. “It started with my awareness in the mid-1980s of the problems the world could face. Africa, among others, but not only Africa.” (2) In 1985, with a few artist friends and show business personalities, France Gall founded Action-École, a non-governmental humanitarian organization. She goes several times “in the field”, the objective being to succeed in targeting the precise and priority needs of the villages visited in order to be able to create specific and as direct aid projects as possible. While in France, school committees are being created to raise funds, food and supplies. The operation will be very succ