Organizations for solidarity and mutual aid Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

Super Cafoutch is the cooperative supermarket from Mars. The Cafoutch is a small storage room where you can put everything and anything. From the Marseilles expression, the association develops a consumer cooperative. To consume yes, but differently: quality products, local and accessible for all. The model is inspired by the Park Slope Food Coop created in 1973 in New York. To consume, you have to be a member; the cooperators each hold one or more shares in the supermarket and decide together. It is also a participatory supermarket: each cooperator devotes 3 hours per month to various tasks such as cashiering, stocking shelves, ordering, etc. The project is also social: finding everything at Super Cafoutch and cheaper than elsewhere, consuming locally and responsibly (99% organic and local products). The baskets are prepared under our eyes, we exchange, we discuss, we share. Meetings are organized once a month, find the dates in the Agenda on the website. The cooperative hopes to find a place very soon in the city center. A great idea!

Human trip works on the respect of the visited regions and cultures and on the associative commitment: it is at the same time a travel agency and an association. The agency gives back to the association a part of its results, which allows it to carry out development projects, in priority in favour of children (schooling and education). For the agency, the traveller must be enriched by the discovery of another culture but must not transpose its values or impose itself on others. A nice solution to really approach the culture of Nepal or other countries.

The association offers a listening (individual or speaking group) and accompaniment for people with moral difficulties. It offers training in support and listening to individuals, associations and businesses. A Café Psycho is also organized once a month.

If you want to "make the cleaning", don't hesitate to get rid of everything that doesn't serve you anymore but can service others: appliances, furniture, clothes… A truck spends several times a week on Avignon. For other municipalities, the association operates by sector.

AVF welcomes newcomers and offers a multitude of information about the city.

It also facilitates their integration by offering organized activities and outputs.

Kittens, young cats or old matous are looking for a home to welcome them. The refuge ensures that the adoptive families are serious. Adopters must complete a form that evaluates their degree of involvement. In doing so, the refuge ensures that animals are entrusted to people who care about it and try to avoid further abandonment. Please note that all cats in the refuge are sterilized and identified by a chip system.

In Bouches-du-Rhône, the association has more than 110 reception and solidarity strategists. It is present in 70 neighbourhoods in Marseille and acts against poverty and exclusion with various means: day and night receptions, a health committee (prevention, aid), a team of hospital visitors whose main activity is assistance to disadvantaged people, the support of the person with a broader target towards autonomy and social reintegration. Day care is essentially open to the homeless, asylum seekers, leavers, refugees. In the evening, mobile hospitality tours in the south and downtown areas. At the beginning of 2013, a new bus (Solidar'BUS) strengthens the mobile unit and goes to the front of young people who are living in precarious situations to present the range of aid and activities put in place by the association. Food aid survives thanks to the European Plan and the collection operations in supermarkets. On the social aspect, many actions also: assistance for vacation departures, young people's awareness of international solidarity, cyber space for Internet access, job research, information technology, literacy, school support and even cultural actions (writing workshops, video projects…).

This association promotes breeding lover of bird and offers training for this purpose. It is responsible for the protection of the wild birds. In order to better inform the bon vivant or the lover of grass, it organises exhibitions and sometimes intervenes in schools.

Marseille Volunteering (the centre of France Volunteer in Marseille) is responsible for guiding people who want to give their time by using their skills. Depending on the choices, availability and knowledge of the volunteer in the future, the association directs it at best so that all parties are satisfied. Marseille Volunteering continually lists the volunteer needs of a large number of associations. Before you start volunteering, trust their expertise.

It would be wrong to think that the Restos du Coeur only distribute food aid. Employees and volunteers act in various ways: daily marauds in Marseille, emergency reception in a centre in Aubagne (20 beds), integration workshops, assistance with returning to work, cultural and leisure activities (debates, cinemas, libraries), welfare assistance (hairdressing and beauty services). Les Restos du Coeur de Marseille is constantly looking for volunteers to welcome people and distribute food, but also for drivers and companions to deliver the 42 centres in the department and strengthen the mobile teams in the street.

Clean my Calanques, the benchmark for ecological action in Marseille, is present on all fronts. In an interview in our Citybook 4 years ago, Eric Akopian, founder of the association, explained the extent of the educational work to be carried out in our city, particularly in terms of waste sorting. A few years later, we were bitterly disappointed to learn that the task was still a pharaonic one. Raising awareness in schools, public collections in the countryside, presence at OM matches and festivals - CMC teams are hard at work, doing a remarkable, titanic job. A task that should not necessarily fall to them, but which they carry out with brio.

Les alchimistes had a brilliant and simple idea: to collect food waste from professionals and local authorities and turn it into organic compost. Present throughout Provence, Les Alchimistes stand out from the crowd by helping local authorities to develop sorting and composting programs, and by running workshops to raise awareness of the importance of sorting and composting. The real advantage of this approach is the short circuit, since everything from waste collection to composting is very local.

Throwing away a cigarette butt is one of the worst things you can do! On the one hand, because a cigarette butt can irreversibly alter a natural environment, and when you live in the South, can create fires beyond measure in the height of the summer season. Since 2013, Recyclop has been working to enable these butts to generate electricity in a green way. Through numerous partnerships with companies and institutions, and by setting up collectors, this association has a bright future ahead of it. Raising awareness of the need to manage cigarette-related waste is a major issue. Abdès Bengorine and Recyclop have understood this.

The Centre Régional de Sauvegarde de la Faune Sauvage de Buoux is a center dedicated to the protection of nature and the environment. It offers research, donations, outings, education, training, care, protection and studies related to wildlife. The center also provides a refuge for animals.

For 11 years now, this foundation has been working to help victims of discrimination on the basis of their sexuality. The Refuge's premises provide temporary accommodation for young people who are often rejected by their families because of their sexual orientation. The foundation's work is exemplary and incomparable. It provides vital psychological support and careful accompaniment to these victims. Transphobia is also treated. A drop-in centre is open every morning. The emergency telephone line can be reached at any time. It is possible to make a bequest to support the work of the Refuge

The delegation on the Diocese of Marseilles is divided into three territories: north, south, is (from Ciotat to Gréasque). The network is close to 500 volunteers accompanied by 9 employees, a high potential that makes the 19 places of reception alive. 4 of them are especially open to homeless people, migrants, leavers and sick persons without social security coverage. The charity's charitable mission remains unchanged: aid for people living in poverty. Actions: day reception, night bus, soup kitchens, street tours, socio-cultural animations in the neighbourhoods, school support, administrative accompaniment. In Aubagne, a boutique shop sells cheaper fashion clothing and accessories.

LGBT Hiking Association open to everyone. Organizes circuits throughout the region, in a good, very friendly atmosphere. Travel tours are available on the association's website, which is ranked according to their difficulty, and you will also find tips for preparing well.

Association L.G.B.T. local very active. Combating all forms of sexism and LGBT-phobias and organizing groups of speakers and working meetings on LGBT issues.

This association offers support and accompaniment services for people living with HIV/AIDS. It is important to note that the AIDES association in Avignon is a place of support and confidentiality for people affected by HIV/AIDS, and that it is preferable to respect their privacy and discretion when visiting or calling.

This anti-AIDS association, created in 1989, is mainly comprised of HIV-positive people - the office, a core of about active members, including medical advisers, all volunteers and members. The purpose of the association is to focus on all aspects of AIDS and to carry out critical analyses of all situations and problems caused by AIDS and in particular treatments. Research and experimental implementation of non-conventional, effective and non-toxic therapies. Presentation of innovative results at major international congresses.