“They were already a good twenty waiting at the opening, at 10 a.m.“, exclaims Jil Heck, volunteer of the association Student Circular Movementwhich organized this Saturday, September 3, its first solidarity sale at the Boutonnet university residence in Montpellier. You had to come early to buy the most attractive objects to furnish your apartment at low cost. “In particular, we had a microwave in very good condition at 8 euros, it obviously left very quickly. Half the items are gone in an hour“, adds Jil Heck, satisfied.
Throughout the day, a hundred students came to take a look at the items sold by the student association, while inflation weighs on their wallets. Clara, in her fourth year of medicine, for example, left with a full box of dishes for… two euro 50 ! “I took cups, round plates, and lots of cute little things that I could find in stores but much more expensive“, she explains.
Objective: to perpetuate the solidarity sale
Did Sarah come out of curiosity, but she knows she’s going to have to to tighten one’s belt financially this year, after the reduction in the amount of his scholarship. “I went from level four to three, it’s still between 60 and 70 euros less per month, so buying second hand can always help“, says the student in second year of Applied Foreign Languages. This is precisely the idea of this solidarity sale: to fight against student precariousness. And the volunteers have noticed theusefulness of their operation. “There are still quite a few students who left with a full box trying to take everything they needed. They didn’t just come out of curiosity“, details Aiona.
Between 400 and 500 euros were collected by the association which now wants perpetuate this sale. “The objective initially would be to organize at least two per year“, specifies Jil Heck. With an identical plan: to recover at the end of the school year the objects of the students who leave Montpellier to then offer them for sale to new students, at the start of the school year. Student Circular Movement is also looking to find a place to be able to create a recycling center, a shop where to sell second-hand products.