This itinerant van crisscrosses the countryside to try to prevent femicide

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The traveling van Nina and Simones from the regional federation of Information Centers on women's rights and families (CIDFF) of Burgundy Franche-Comté, now regularly stops at Saint-Claude on market days. A service set up a year ago and which hit the mark.

“This van allows us to cover white areasfar from the central towns” explains Aurélie, social worker dedicated to this project. “It all depends on the municipality or the day of the van’s stage, we can have three visits, like twenty » she continues. Inside this touring van, everything is arranged as a little cocoonconducive to word and testimonyin all anonymity.

“I hear a lot of life stories, many elderly people come to meet me when I am in the market places, to tell me about the violence they suffered in their marriage”

“This van is a solution which had been set up by a CIDFF in Hauts de France, at the end of the Covid period, during which it had set up hours in supermarketsit was about maintain the link“, explains lawyer Maryvonne Faillenet Elvezi, president of the CIDFF. “We decided to duplicate the initiative in the region and we were thus able to finance this van which is therefore the only one in the entire greater regionbut which mainly crisscrosses the Jura” continues the president of the association.

“In the Upper Jurawhere there was high demandthe van now stops regularly in Morez, Moirans, Saint-Laurent en Grandvaux,” explains Claire Robelin, director of the CIDFF du Jura.

The association which helps women victims of violence has intensified over the past year his presence in the territory, with the opening of a local in city center of Saint-Claude. “The city of Saint-Claude has made this space available to us within the house of associations, which corresponds very well to our needs to ensure a central and accessible presence,” notes the president of Maryvonne Faillenet Elvezi.

The CIDFF offers a unconditional and free welcome women – and sometimes men – offering them emergency accommodationin cases of intra-family violence, as well as legal guidance services, a psychological follow-upbut also recently, a socio-professional support for the return to work people.

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