The funeral of Myriam Dessaivre, aged 26, will take place on Friday August 21 in Toulouse and Montlaur (31). The young Toulouse woman was murdered on August 9 by an armed group with five other young humanitarian workers from the NGO Acted while the group was visiting the Kouré giraffe reserve, an hour from Niamey in Niger.
After the national ceremony of tribute to the six young French aid workers murdered in Niger, on August 14 at the Parisian airport of Orly, the family and relatives of Toulouse Myriam Dessaivre will gather on Friday August 21 for her funeral which will take place will take place in two stages: a mass will be held at 2 p.m. in the Church of Christ the King in Toulouse, then the burial of the young humanitarian aid worker from Acted, who died at the age of 26, will be held in the small Maraval cemetery in Montlaur (31) where his father, Jean-Marie, has been resting since 2015 after succumbing to an illness.
Paul du Limbert, mayor of the small town in the south-east of Toulouse, confides the emotion that won the village where little Myriam spent part of her childhood. “People talk a lot about what happened,” he explains. Especially the 25-year-olds who went to school with her, then studied in Toulouse. What happened to this young girl is something terrible, she was brilliant and was broke in the prime of her life. It is moving and revolting. “
In Orly, last Friday, Simon, Myriam’s 28-year-old brother, took the floor, his voice tied, to list the names of six victims of the NGO Acted in Niamey: Antonin, Charline, Léo, Myriam, Nadifa and Stella. And paint the portrait of a sister “who had just turned 26”.
“She was adorable, spontaneous, radiant with gaiety, 400% pacifist. We did not know of any enemies ”, as reported by the newspaper Le Parisien.
For her young age, Myriam Dessaivre had already carved out a unique furrow in the small world of humanitarian aid. She was considering a career in diplomacy, her mother Michele told Le Parisien, dreamed of a “better, fairer, less violent world”.
After a thesis at the end of the European license in communication and information on the “peace process between the FARC and the Colombian government”, his path seems cleared. The family, very close and active within the Catholic community in Toulouse, gave him the desire to reach out to others. She spent five months in Bogota with a host family, before being selected for a Master in Peace Studies at Paris-Dauphine University.
In internship in the French NGO Acted from 2018, she has a series of missions: Tunisia then Chad. And finally Niger, where she had come to develop new humanitarian projects in line with local needs.
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