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Solidarity: homeless people housed in empty offices overnight
Empty business premises can be used as housing for the homeless. This is the initiative supported by the Bureaux du cœur, presented in “An idea for France”, Thursday January 11. – (France 2)
Empty business premises can be used as housing for the homeless. This is the initiative supported by the Bureaux du cœur, presented in “An idea for France”, Thursday January 11.
The Bureaux du coeur association encourages businesses to welcome homeless people into their premises in the evenings and weekends. In Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), after seven months of hardship and nights sleeping in the street, Yaya Idriss, a 31-year-old Sudanese refugee, sleeps in the meeting room of a company. From 6 p.m. in the evening until 8:30 a.m. the next morning, he has access to the ground floor and the bathroom. He also meets the employees.
A maximum duration of six months
“What we most often observe as a gesture of solidarity is ‘I’ll give you an old smartphone, I’ll help you redo a CV’, indicates Pierre-Yves Loaëc, founder of Bureaux du cœur. In France, more than 150 companies open their offices at night, for a maximum of six months. “We still have to think about a few little things, like insurance (…) to avoid all risks, it is the Offices of the Heart which ensure the seriousness of the candidates”explains Valérie Heurtel, present on the set of 13 Heures, Thursday January 11.
