In order to strengthen its team already made up of around twenty professionals and volunteers from metropolitan France, but also to train them, the association Les Compagnons Bâtisseurs recruited five young local people in civic service for six-month contracts. Their mission is to promote social integration through housing and civic engagement.
• Pamela Parra, 22 years old holds a BEP customer relationship obtained at LPO. Mother of two little girls, she was until then a stay-at-home mom. “I had a scooter accident in September and I had a shin, femur and fibula fracture and I fell into depression. Working allows me to be in contact with people and it makes me feel good, ”she says. She started her civic service on May 6 as a receptionist and assistant at the Sandy Ground resource center: “We are loaning out tools. We just received tools so right now I'm filling out and checking the forms. I live in Sandy Ground. It's very close to my home and it keeps me busy. I was also interested in the initiation to painting and plumbing workshops. ” For the moment, she does not yet know what she will do at the end of her contract.
Bilardo John, 23, began civic service on February 1. He grew up in Concordia and worked in the hotel industry in Saint-Barthélemy before Irma. Returning to his native island after the cyclone, he found a job in construction and therefore already has experience in carpentry. “My contract ended and my employer offered to renew it. But I had seen the announcement of the Compagnons Bâtisseurs to perform civic service so I refused. I wanted to help because Irma destroyed a lot of houses and a lot of residents cannot afford to repair them, ”he says. He particularly enjoys working on small sites where he learns a lot. "I like to remove what is damaged in order to rebuild," he confides from the roof of a small house in Quartier d'Orléans. He already knows what he wants to do at the end of his civic service: an apprenticeship as a carpenter with the Greta and the Compagnons Bâtisseurs “to have a diploma”, as another young man from the island who has finished his civic service a few months earlier (continued in our next edition) Source: www.soualigapost.com
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