An exhibition to tell the “small victories” of illiterate people

Journalist Clara Crochet-Damais takes us to visit a rather special exhibition in Montigny-lès-Cormeilles (Val d’Oise): “Les petits victories”. It shows the boards of a comic strip produced by a dozen people with illiteracy, who are supported by the Clé association.

For 25 years, this association, based in Ermont in the Val d’Oise, has helped 2,000 people in Ile de France, adults who have been to school but who have, so to speak, “forgotten” reading, writing and calculation.

Solène Petit, 26, is proud to read a bubble from her board. “If you don’t take your destiny into your own hands, no one will do it for you”she reads in front of our cameras.

For each of them, the most difficult step is to push the door of an association to fight against illiteracy. Line Kalgiop, a learner, testifies: “I came already. It was a bit of a shame in relation to the age. But afterwards, in life, there is no age to go back to school”

This exhibition will be presented in nine media libraries of the Val Parisis network until June 2023.