The first winter nights are getting worse for people without housing. In Lyon, every evening, cooks from large restaurants prepare a hot soup distributed by volunteers of the Salvation Army. - Salvation Army volunteers in the streets of Lyon. - In a kitchen in a restaurant in Lyon, Guy LASSAUSAIE makes the soup/He quotes the ingredients needed for a good soup. - Cut carrots. - Next interview Guy LASSAUSAIE: "You have to know how to share". - No one is homeless hidden under plastic blankets, only their hand is visible. The homeless person accepts the bowl of soup. - Under a bridge, homeless people drinking their soup: "It warms the stomach" / homeless people drinking their soup.
Malgré l'ouverture de places supplémentaires dans des centres d'hébergements, des sans abris et des migrants continuent à dormir dans la rue sous des tentes ou des abris de fortune, en dépit du froid et de la neige. Des bénévoles de la Croix Rouge effectuent des maraudes car ces personnes risquent des hypothermies sévères et la mort.
At the Bercy Sports Centre, the Secours populaire organises a distribution of meals and gifts for families in difficulty. Interview of volunteers and beneficiaries of this Christmas like no other.
Reportage sur le campus de Bordeaux, en Gironde, où des distributions alimentaires hebdomadaires sont proposées aux étudiants en situation de précarité. La plupart sont privés des revenus qu'ils tiraient d'un travail saisonnier ou à temps partiel à cause de l'épidémie de Covid-19 et du confinement. Le commentaire sur images factuelles alterne avec l'interview de Pierre VEIT, président de la banque alimentaire de Gironde, et d'étudiantes.
In Saint Malo, the volunteers of the Samu Social whose retired doctors carry out night maraudes three times a week in winter to offer warm meals to the homeless and offer hygiene care in an emergency shelter. Testimony of the volunteers of the Samu social de St Malo on their commitment in favor of the poorest, of their action to go towards his people or of their work within a shelter of emergency including that of Jean LAUNAY, retired doctor.
Report in Dijon. Meeting with the homeless, unemployed young people in a precarious situation during a meal at the soup kitchen. They testify to their financial difficulties and their unsuccessful job search.
Meeting in Bordeaux with volunteers from nine associations helping the poor living thanks to private donations, donations from supermarkets and volunteers -associating this year to be able to continue to provide and distribute every evening a hot meal to 150 people. Testimonies of volunteers of associations including Emmaïs during the preparation of the evening meal.
Meeting in Roubaix with precarious families, often women with several children living from solifdarity, food aid distributed by charitable associations including the association "Amitié Partage" and no longer able to pay their rent and water bills, of gas and electricity. Some beneficiaries of this aid decided to contribute by helping and distributing to others a few hours a week. Testimonies of people benefitting from this help including many large mother and interviews of Martine WARDAWOIR "I came to ask for help and now I give it" Regis Cardon: "come and give a hand" Marcel LECUSE, president of the association help others "allows to keep his dignite, to take charge".
In Paris, 8,000 homeless people live, some are young unemployed, often dismissed as a result of an illness, ending up on the streets, without the possibility of receiving a daily allowance. Some sleep in a car, live off begging and soup kitchen.
Report on a Secours populaire volunteer: meeting with a retired old woman who has been working at Secours populaire for ten years after having herself benefited from parcels from the association: she tells her situation, talk about her volunteering with the public aid which allows her to meet people, to remedy her loneliness.
Report in Paris on the young 'Beatniks", their way of life, without money or work, the way they occupy their day shared between readings, writing, music, at the café "Chez Popov" and their meals taken at the soup kitchen and the nights spent under the bridges of Paris.
Meeting in Paris with the volunteers of the Restos du Coeur, gare de l'est last night. At the Gare de l'Est there are about forty people to prepare meals for about 400 people. They come from all social classes. Interview with Alain Rousvoal, responsible for Restos du Coeur and testimonies of young volunteers.
Report on the Salvation Army distributing to trucks through Paris at night, soup, bread and cheese to tramps and people without resources including unemployed young people who find themselves on the street without family to help them. Testimonies of members of the Salvation Army and people on the street beneficiaries of the distributed hot soup.
Meeting in Paris with several homeless ragmen living in the street of small jobs picking up cardboard and fallen into misery after an accident of life. Testimonials.
"What is the Salvation Army?". In this 1973 document, officers and a colonel talk about their experience with this quasi-military organization and its functions. - A group of salutists play and quest for Christmas in Paris - passers-by throw money in a bucket - Microtrottoir with passers-by: what is the salvation army? and explanations on the role of this international Protestant movement where volunteers are called "salutists".
On the occasion of the kick-off in Paris of the 14th solidarity campaign of the "Restos du coeur" to help the poor, the volunteers received, Place de la répoublique, the visit of the President of the Republic Jacques Chirac welcomed by Véronique Colucci. He tasted a soup and then spoke about the situation of the poor: The social divide was the central theme of Jacques Chirac’s election campaign in 1995, he evokes the problem of restoring links and solidarity between people. After the departure of the President of the Republic, surprise arrival of the Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin who gives his vision of the State and solidarity with the RMI and the specific association of solidarity
Report at a concierge, Yvette BELLEFOND, living in less than 30 square meters with her three children. She describes her extreme precariousness: she lives with the help of the people, never goes on vacation with her children and minimizes her food expenses.
Discovery of the bus of the Evangelical Mission offering soup and hot meals distributed to the fallen men. Testimonies of men living on the streets about their living conditions.
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