Stéphane Burgatt, edited by Clément Perruche 9:25 a.m., September 13, 2021
Deprived of odd jobs for a year and a half, the students suffered greatly from the health crisis.
In a Marseille campus, an association is on the ground to distribute free meals.
An essential help for some students.
REPORTING
After 18 months of health crisis, the students are going back to school this Monday in face-to-face.
They will find their lectures, their social life and, for some, food packages.
Because many students live in great precariousness and depend on associations helping the most deprived to eat.
At the university of Luminy, in Marseille, the Friday 13 association distributes food to students who do not have enough money to eat properly.
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"It's gone again, it's the full boom"
The association's volunteers arrive in a steaming van full to the brim.
"It's gone again, it's the full boom," explains one of them.
"We will certainly come with two trucks from next week, because with the line there is, it will be a bit tight in terms of distribution."
In front of the truck, a line of a hundred students has already formed well before the time of the meeting.
First arrived, Lionel salutes the action of the volunteers: "They are familiar faces. It is already a family in a way. What we are already given here allows us to get out of it".
Indispensable help
On this campus, very far south of Marseille, these students are struggling to make ends meet, like Myriem and her paltry food budget of 70 euros per month.
"With the studies, I do not eat too much. As a student, I have no income, no job. So I make extreme savings."
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These students consider themselves lucky because in the other campuses of the city, food distribution is struggling to start due to lack of resources.