Yann Hamon 08h00, June 08, 2022

With its Future Trophies, Europe 1 rewards companies, associations or local authorities each year for their audacity, their innovation and their visionary side.

In the running for the Solidarity Trophy, A shelter that saves lives rehouses women with or without children who are victims of domestic or intra-family violence.

A shelter that saves lives was created by Charlyne Peculier, Fostine Carracillo, Paul Wirbel and Hadrien Wolfelsperger.

A platform dedicated to connecting victims of violence with caring owners, it is based on a concept known and now practiced in all sectors.

A shelter that saves lives connects "shelters" - professionals and individuals who own vacant housing or cohabit with sheltered women, with or without children.

This idea came to them in full confinement, women victims of domestic and intra-family violence having experienced confinement in their flesh: a dead end for them and their children. 

In two years, 50 women have been rehoused 

Less than two weeks after its creation, the association was already relocating a woman and her children.

Two years later, 50 women have been rehoused, most with children.

So many lives have been spared thanks to the uniqueness of this solution: the association has in fact made up for the lack of responsiveness of existing structures. 

350 "shelters" registered to offer immediate solutions  

A shelter that saves lives has a major asset: an operational network.

With 350 registered "shelters", the association can offer 350 immediate solutions.

“We have a network of residents who lend their accommodation free of charge to victims of domestic or intra-family violence,” explains Charlyne Péculier, one of the founders of a shelter that saves lives.

However, this remains insufficient to meet the excessive number of requests.

"To create our regional branches, we need people. We need residents who lend their accommodation. We need volunteers to make the structure work […] We need everything that can ensure that we are moving forward in this regionalization.”