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Normandy: a family establishes a shelter dedicated to women victims of violence
In Normandy, a family shows solidarity by housing and offering activities to mothers of families who are victims of violence, who come to live in this accommodation and in unoccupied buildings with their children.
(France 2)
In Normandy, a family shows solidarity by housing and offering activities to mothers of families who are victims of violence, who come to live in this accommodation and in unoccupied buildings with their children.
It’s a white house. Located in Normandy. The second home of the Lemaitre-Pereira family. Alda and her daughter Océane, and her sons, Odin and Jason, Alda bought a mill in Normandy two years ago. Several times a year, the family voluntarily welcomes mothers in need with their children. Some of these mothers were victims of violence.
Commitment to women is a family gene among the Lemaîtres. In memory of their cousin, victim of femicide twenty years ago. “She refused to have sex. She wanted to defend herself with a knife, and it backfired on her. She was stabbed around thirty times”says Océane Lemaître. “I left everything, I left my job”, says Charlène, who fled her husband’s violence in Brazil to come to France. Around twenty women and their disabled children live in one of the unoccupied buildings rented by Odin and Jason to associations.
