After Cabourg last year, it is Deauville, the most upscale city on the Normandy coast, which this Wednesday hosts the big day of the Forgotten of the Secours Populaire holidays. 5,000 children and accompanying adults from all over the Ile-de-France region thus arrived around 10:30 a.m. on board a hundred buses for a great festive day on the beach. They had left the Paris region around 6 a.m. On the program, swimming of course, sports activities, sand sculpture and picnics. It is obviously an enormous stewardship that the Secours Populaire dispatches every year with a team of 1,500 mobilized volunteers.
– Eva Gabriel
Swimming started at 11 a.m. in very favorable conditions since we are expecting more than 26 degrees this afternoon in Deauville. Moreover, some children do not intend to leave the water for a long time, they explained to our reporter present on site.
This day of the forgotten Normans is traditionally the most publicized. It is the image of little Parisians deprived of holidays who live a great day of happiness at the sea that they have often never seen. But between August 15 and 30, the Secours Populaire organizes a total of 50 days of forgotten vacations. For example, this week, 12,000 children from Hauts-de-France are accompanied every day at Parc Astérix. In total, 50,000 French children benefit from this system. The Secours Populaire also puts forward the figures of 200,000 people, parents and children alike, helped by the association this summer to go – a little – on vacation.