During the holidays, France Bleu Bourgogne honors the Côte-d’oriens and Côte-d’oriennes who have marked the past year. After the breeder Emilie Jeannin, or the trader Annabelle Piquet, who sent panties to Prime Minister Jean Castex, we are interested on Friday December 24 at Arthur Bernardin. This 28-year-old young man, beekeeper by trade and volunteer at the Red Cross in Dijon, received in May the distinction – created in 2021 – of “Prodigy of the Republic”. He was thus distinguished for having organized the Samu Social marauding during the confinements and for having coordinated the start of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, with 200 other volunteers.
A new project: “Cafetière”
For this occasion, Arthur Bernardin announces in preview on France Bleu Bourgogne the birth of a new project, carried by the Red Cross in Côte-d’Or: “Cafetière”. This initiative aims to offer “a place of conviviality in the small towns of the department, bringing something to spend a moment of conviviality, around a coffee, a pastry, a vegetable garden, enough to have access to the internet and carry out administrative procedures”, develops the volunteer.
A project that starts from an observation: “Isolation is not only found in the city, it is everywhere. Our actions were quite focused on the Metropolis of Dijon, we wanted to go out a bit and meet these people”. He does not yet know in which villages the “Cafetière” system will intervene first. The experiments should start at the end of January, beginning of February 2022. “It is quite new in France, it looks a bit like the national system “Red Cross on Wheels”“.
They benefit from 90,000 euros budget to set up this initiative, helped by the communities (region and department) and by the Red Cross at the national level.
The end of year celebrations, a crucial moment!
This December 24, Arthur Bernardin will be from 8 p.m. Place Darcy in Dijon, with other volunteers, to distribute coffees and bring company to isolated and destitute people. “We are marauding 7 days a week at the moment. We are going to meet people who are on the streets and in great precariousness. We meet about fifty per evening”, he says.
“We are going to organize the distribution of” Christmas boxes “, something warm, something good, a nice word, a cosmetic product and a hobby, announces Arthur Bernardin. We realize that on December 24, 25 and 31 and January 1, there are more people than usual. That’s why we really attach importance to the action being even more beautiful than usual, because these people are even more isolated and need us even more at these times “.
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