The Secours populaire d'Ille-et-Vilaine is launching a solidarity bus service to reach out to rural communities.
The inhabitants of these sometimes isolated villages suffer regularly, in particular from poor housing.
In the countryside, precariousness is sometimes kept secret, explain the volunteers.
The small truck comes to liven up a seemingly empty place. A few curious people approach. Others question. "Is it possible to give you clothes?" They are in good condition but we don't put them any more ”. The answer is yes. Present for decades in Rennes and in the cities of Ille-et-Vilaine, Secours Populaire has taken advantage of successive confinements to question its support for rural populations. “We were absent from the countryside, you have to know how to recognize it. However, precariousness also exists. It is often hidden, as if there was a phenomenon of stigmatization in the villages, one side what will we say ”, analyzes Julie Orain.
For several months, the departmental leader of Secours populaire has been working on setting up a new system called “Solidaribus”.
This small vehicle in the colors of the association has just started its "tour" which will take it to the four corners of Ille-et-Vilaine with a priority mission: to help isolated people, first with help. food.
“During the first confinement, we delivered food packages.
It was there that we realized that some people traveled more than fifty kilometers to benefit from it.
Our mission is to reach out to them, ”continues Julie Orain.
Unsanitary housing problems
On this Monday in November, the Solidaribus parked near the church of Pleumeleuc. This town of 3,200 inhabitants located about twenty kilometers from Rennes is not in a situation of isolation. But its most precarious citizens face a problem of mobility, because no bus reaches the neighboring town of Montfort-sur-Meu where food aid is concentrated. “Our municipality is not forgotten but it had nothing in favor of the most deprived people. Our role as elected officials is to reach out to those we cannot hear, ”explains Claudine Raulois, deputy mayor of Pleumeleuc in charge of solidarity. The food aid offered also serves as a hook to evoke often complex issues.
That afternoon, Julie and the two Secours populaire volunteers welcomed Claudine (the first name has been changed), facing a problem of unsanitary housing. Its owner refuses to do the work. “They will help me find accommodation in the city. Me, I have no means of locomotion, I cannot move, ”she explains.
The housing problem is recurrent in these small towns.
Driven out of metropolises that have become too expensive, some inhabitants live in deplorable conditions, without even realizing it.
"We sometimes come across elderly people faced with unhealthy issues that we did not know existed," adds the elected representative of Pleumeleuc.
“In the rural world, some are unaware of their rights.
Mobility is expensive, housing is expensive and the digital divide is widening for those who do not have a computer, ”adds the facilitator of the Secours populaire department.
It is all these missions that its departmental branch will try to fulfill.
In recent days, eight municipalities of Ille-et-Vilaine have seen the Solidaribus pass once or twice a month.
Others will undoubtedly follow.
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Eight municipalities concerned for the moment
Launched on November 8, the Solidaribus campaign currently concerns eight municipalities in Ille-et-Vilaine: Pleumeleuc, Talensac, Val d'Anast, Grand-Fougeray, Maen Roch, Louvigné-du-Désert, Val Couesnon and the Vivier-sur-Mer.
The ambition of Secours Populaire is to recruit local volunteers in order to set up local branches in these rural areas.
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