Less than a week before Christmas Eve, the Restos du Cœur are making logs in the association’s workshops and integration projects near Clermont-Ferrand. “Offer since we have already been offered”: employees are mobilizing.
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Chocolate-raspberry logs will soon be distributed to people in the street in the Clermont-Ferrand area. Behind the stove, Charifa. This 28-year-old from Mahor arrived in mainland France in 2023 to join her mother. Since then she has been baking here, at the Restos du Cœur workshops and integration projects. An important activity for her. “It does us good because it allows us not to see people hanging around, see them not eating, or give them money to buy things they don’t need. It allows us to make food for them! »
Bachirou takes care of the lemon shortbread. He succeeded in what he left Mayotte for more than a year and a half ago: building his future. He now has accommodation and is preparing to get his license. But everything was not simple. “When I arrived, I had nothing. I wasn’t even in school, I wasn’t working. I was looking for myself until I arrived at Restos du Cœur. My situation began to develop. I got out of the difficulty. »
On January 6, he will begin a work-study program in the kitchen. This is the whole point of these workshops and integration projects. They mainly welcome RSA beneficiaries or unqualified political refugees. Philippe Gauthier is a technical kitchen integration supervisor. “The goal is to learn or relearn simple things such as being on time, getting up, working in a team… Over time, this allows you to acquire skills, develop these skills, to have a professional project and then, a job, of course! » This year, 50 people worked here in cooking, carpentry and gardening. Like Bachirou, half found work afterwards.
