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The Boutiques Solidarité

27 drop-in centres in cities

07/05/2009

Every morning, the Boutique Solidarité in Créteil trains five to eight visitors in computer techniques.
The Boutique also offers facial care to all visitors: once a week, the Boutique takes on the aspect of a beauty salon - accessible to the most deprived.

The Boutiques Solidarité were started in the early 90s to help individuals in difficulty, providing one-on-one, non-segregative service and respecting anonymity on three principles: welcoming, listening and counselling.

They offer basic services (breakfast, shower, baggage storage, a registered address) and, in partnership with other associations, have developed a variety of other services (social support, health care, sporting and cultural activities, housing workshops, etc.)

In 2007, 16,970 people were received at 27 Boutiques Solidarité run by the Fondation Abbé Pierre: 21 % were women, 74 % were men and 5 % were children.

The Boutiques Solidarité are open an average of 281 days a year. Two hundred and two employees work at the Boutiques and 245 volunteers welcome visitors on a regular basis.

What will become of the drop-in centres? [pdf - 1,1 Mo]

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Our partnership associations

Our partnerships with associations and/or social housing organisations have resulted in:

Ensuring that obsolete buildings, often occupied for many years, comply with safety standards so as to make certain that occupants are safe in their dwellings.
Since 2007 the association “Collectif Hébergement Varois” has organised workshops on restoring deteriorated dwellings in the old neighbourhoods of Seyne-sur-Mer and Toulon.
Made-to-measure solutions adapted for marginalised people.
Promotion of cultural neighbourhood projects that contribute to the acceptance of inhabitants and improved living conditions for them: action against inadequate housing also means action against substandard living conditions.

Funding of our projects

Our funding of community projects allows inhabitants to feel safe in their dwellings and improve their living conditions.

The Foundation mainly finances work that needs to be done to have electricity and heating systems comply with safety standards and to repair roofing, to enable the inhabitants to continue to live safely in their dwellings while waiting for them to be completely restored.

Whenever possible, the Foundation favours using renewable energy.

Our emergency funds

Our emergency funds for exceptional situations are used to help disaster victims in France and abroad.

Climatic and industrial catastrophes, humanitarian disasters: any emergency situations that require immediate aid and longer term assistance, since housing is often most affected as a consequence.

Since 1999, the Foundation has had an emergency fund it can use to directly help the most vulnerable people, who very often find themselves in the most precarious situations following a catastrophe.