In Chartreuse, the Maison de Matéo welcomes young people and their bereaved parents

It is in the Maison de Matéo located in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in Isère, that a group of bereaved young people have found refuge. Here, in this warm place, like a cocoon, young people share their pain after the loss of a brother or sister.

It is the Grenoble association Locomotive that helps them through the ordeal of mourning. The association was born of an outpouring of solidarity carried by a doctor and a small group of parents who endured their child’s cancer and who wanted to support other parents on this difficult path.

Between them, the young people welcomed call it “The loco of mutual aid”.

It’s a feeling of joy to speak because this anger or this hatred or this sadness stays there but we want it to go away and with the mutual aid locomotive it goes away very slowly.

Here in Saint-Pierre de Chartreuse, no one has forgotten Matéo, this young man from Isère who died in 2016 of leukemia at the age of 17 after fighting courageously against the disease for three years. Before dying, Matéo had asked his parents to continue the fight. With the Locomotive association, they keep their promise.

We are a little not well and then when we leave we are relieved, we are better