Have you ever come across a Vroom Shower?
This is a camper van fitted out to accommodate homeless people in the Lyon metropolitan area so that they can maintain their personal hygiene, recharge their batteries (telephone and others) and spend a friendly moment with the volunteers.
This Vroom Shower first allows its beneficiaries to wash in complete safety: “When they go to wash in public baths, they run the risk of having their belongings stolen,” explains Béchir, volunteer driver of the Vroom Shower.
So, it's tense, there can be tensions ”.
“Volunteers have become good friends”
Michel, homeless for two years, appreciates the service… but also the human warmth he finds in the motorhome: “the volunteers offer us breakfast and they often help us too, even more than that.
They became good friends”.
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“The question of access to hygiene is essential in relation to self-esteem, to looking for work, etc.
Today, we have unfortunately become essential to the city of Lyon,” concludes Béchir.
The concept of the free and solidarity mobile shower exists almost everywhere in France, such as in Nantes, Clermont, Toulouse or Marseille.
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