High school students sell pancakes to support their comrades victims of a fire, “immediately, we mobilized”

At Joseph Storck vocational high school in Guebwiller, the students organize a sale of pancakes. The objective, to raise funds to support two camardes victim of the fire on April 22, rue de Basel in Mulhouse.

Solidarity pancakes at the Joseph Storck hotel school in Guebwiller (Haut-Rhin). A group of high school students decided to cook to support two of their comrades of fire. Tuesday, April 22, the fire had ravaged the building in which the high school girls lived. Their apartment, as well as all their personal property, went up in smoke.

To help their comrades overcome this event, the Association of Students Maison des Lycéens (MDL) has organized to raise funds. The pancake stand allows them to supply prints put online.

The fire had started in a four-story building, rue de Basel, in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin). About fifty firefighters had been mobilized. They had evacuated two people in relative emergency and managed to put out the fire before it spread to neighboring buildings. No serious injuries had been deplored. The building housed five families. Among them, two students from the Joseph Storck vocational high school.

Between two lessons, the smell of pancakes attracts students from the establishment. They queue to get their still warm and smoking snack. This sweet break is not just greedy, it is also engaged.

After the creation of two prize pools to help Hivay and Kristine, the two students affected by the fire, a dozen high school students from the MDL association decided to go further. To remove even more funds, they have set up a pancake stand whose profits go directly to their comrade prize pools.

It seemed important to us to mobilize for these students. They still lost almost all their belongings in this fire

Carole Lusset

Student and member of the Association Maison des Lycéens

Quickly, after learning the incident, the association met to reflect on the possible actions to help the victims. “”Immediately, we mobilized“, Ensures, Mathis Roloff, pupil and president of the MDL association. Thanks to the sale of pancakes, high school students were able to collect additional 500 euros.

“It really touched me a lot”says Kristine, one of the fire victims, to our reporting team. It did not expect such a great mobilization on the part of the students and the establishment. “”I had a lot of help from the school, I had prize pools, a clothing collection, the sale of pancakes by the students and I had vouchers to make purchases of basic necessities “.

I would like to thank everyone infinitely

Kristine

Student of the Josepeh Storck high school and fire victim

While Kristine has to focus on these studies, the fire adds to her stress that she would have gone well. “It’s really very difficult”she admits. To minimize the impact of the incident on his school career, the school wanted to help the student. “We have a social fund to his own in the establishment which has released the sum of 400 euros to allow Kristine’s family to be able to buy basic necessities”explains Marie Eme, principal education advisor (CPE) of the establishment. She adds, “There was a real solidarity that was created around this event”.

It was also the teachers of the two students who created the prize pools then relayed on the establishment’s networks and fed by the sale of student pancakes.

We are lucky to have students really invested in their establishment

Marie

CPE at the Jospeh Storck high school

“It often happens to make salesexplique Mathis Roloff, Either to have money for the MDL and the activities that are done in the Lycée, or when there is a fire or anything, to help people “.

For Mother’s Day, the students of the association will organize a sale of flowers. This time, the benefits collected will go to Mayotte, to support a population still in difficulty five months after the Cyclone Chido.