It's time for school to end in Mittainville (Yvelines), 650 inhabitants, a church, three farms, a river. And a village hall, in front of which a strange caravan has just set up for a few hours. This Thursday in January, the facilitators of the Hat Factory social center are stationed in front of the town hall and the school. In the village hall, they prepared coffee and biscuits to welcome the residents.
This meeting marks the launch of a roaming project imagined by this structure located in Rambouillet, around fifteen kilometers from this village in the south of Yvelines, on the edge of Eure-et-Loir. Created in the 1960s, the Hat Factory today wears three hats: it is a performance hall but also a Youth and Culture Center (MJC) and a social center, approved by the benefits fund (CAF) of Yvelines since 1966.