Summer is now preparing and a question remains unanswered: will children be able to go to summer camps? It is actually quite complicated: technically, they will be authorized from June 22, but the health protocol for coronavirus is so strict that the organizers wonder about the holding of activities, as noted by Europe 1 by joining industry professionals. For stays that are going to be organized with children, you have to imagine group games without contact, meals at a distance and even booms while dancing within a meter of each other. The protocol unveiled on Tuesday by the Ministry of National Education details a whole series of specific recommendations over ten pages.
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"Hypocritical" measures?
But for Frédéric Rolin, director of artistic stays, these measures are difficult to apply because, for example, the mask is not compulsory for supervisors except in the presence of young people. "It means ignoring the summer camps," he laments. "Let's be objective, a youth worker is in contact with young people 18 hours a day: at one point, it is a bit hypocritical. In the expression 'summer camps', there is the word holidays, it is not a health colony or child care. "
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For the first time in twenty years, Frédéric Rolin has decided to cancel all of his stays. The association "Vitacolo" has chosen to limit the number of children per group, 12 participants instead of the usual 25. This third less registrations this year will cause an obvious shortfall. "If we do a blank year, we sink," explains the co-director of the structure, Charlotte Chastagnaret, to justify the opening. "There is going to be a need to invest in equipment. We have to recruit more technical staff, it is much more complicated from a financial point of view."
These financial difficulties also affect supervisors. For example, within the Frédéric Rolin collective, 15 of the 24 structures cancel their stays this summer. These 15 colo closures represent 5,000 technically unemployed animators.