Collective of Parents and Students Opens Temporary Shelter at Montel School in Lyon

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Around a hundred occupants, including around sixty children, have been sleeping for a week at the Montel school, in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, thanks to the action of the collective of parents of students Jamais sans roof, who denounce the inaction of the state.

Packs of milk, cans of food, a box of sleeping bags, piles of clothes, sheets and microwaves are spread out in separate piles throughout the large room. Near the entrance, two women are washing dishes over a sink. On two large whiteboards, the instructions and rules of life are spread out in colored marker. A sheet, entitled “tutorial”, welcomes you to the “Montel hotel”. For a week, around a hundred homeless people have been sleeping in this unoccupied school in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon. What they have in common: having children who go to school in the metropolis. Before that, some families lived on the streets, spending the recent freezing nights in tents crowded around the city’s train stations. Others, sometimes for several months, were “housed” in different schools in Lyon, thanks to the action of Jamais sans roof.

On January 12, this collective of parents, teachers and educational staff decided to launch its own “severe cold plan”, by investing in the Montel school, a temporary set of three modular buildings. In use a few days previously, they were installed during work carried out in the local school and are intended to be moved for the start of the September school year in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon. The heating was still on, the water had been cut off to protect the network from freezing. It has since been reinstated by the town hall, which also dispatched

2024-01-20 16:16:41
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