50 Dijon students will forget their precariousness for a day. The Secours Populaire de Côte d’Or takes them this Thursday at the Nigloland amusement park, in the Aube for € 5 per day. These young people, stranded on the Dijon campus all summer for lack of means, are a new audience for the association which helps the most disadvantaged.
These young people, who are now asking for the Secours Populaire, have varied profiles, explains Louis Octobon. He is treasurer of Fébia, a federation of 17 student associations from Burgundy, a partner in the operation. “Some are international students, others are French students”, he specifies. “The thing that characterizes them is the fact that they unfortunately cannot go on vacation this summer.”
A new audience because of the confinements
This is the health crisis and its consequences which isolated them, made them vulnerable, and pushed them towards Secours Populaire. “It’s a new audience that we had following the first confinement”, says Mickaël Mouard, deputy director of the Secours Populaire branch in Côte-d’Or. “We really ended up with up to a hundred young people per half-day or per week.” According to him, student precariousness that we have heard a lot about in recent months, it is “not just words, but consequences”.
The Secours populaire opens permanent staff on the Dijon campus at the start of the September academic year to offer cultural activities to students. The association also organizes the day of the “forgotten of the holidays” on August 25th. 250 people from the Côte d’Or will go with their family to Le Pal park in Allier
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