Organizations for solidarity and mutual aid Marseille 13000

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!

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…).

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.

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.

This association, created in 1885, was recognized as being of public utility four years later. Its missions are multiple. First of all, the spontaneous reception of people in emergency situations, without housing and seeking asylum. In this sense, the structure provides for the reception of young children with their mothers. But beyond this "simple" reception mission, the HPF offers training and courses in order to set up social and professional reintegration. The same is true for people with disabilities, through various integration projects.

More than ever, we must remain aware of violence against women, a real scourge of our society, causing several hundred victims each year. Marseille is obviously not spared by this phenomenon despite a real collective awareness. Among the structures in place to help women victims of violence, this association whose office is located near Castellane. Listening, emergency accommodation, prevention and training are provided here by the brilliant team of Solidarité Femmes 13. Anonymity and discretion assured, it will take time before things change but the work of these volunteers is to be commended.

Things are changing in Marseille, that's a fact. In a city that is considered irresponsible on many levels, citizen mobilization is there to change the situation. Created in 2015, the City of Agriculture is part of this line. Around conferences, relocated events and even internships held on the premises of Boulevard National, we are trying to rethink consumption and therefore production. The general public is made aware of the abuses and solutions through projections, debates in this meeting and exchange forum. We also train in permaculture, beekeeping and live around a weekly market, a canteen and even a henhouse. An initiative that we recommend.

Marseille on the farm side. An innovative and innovative project by conscientious and responsible young people, the Talus is an amazing country island in the heart of an urban wasteland in the 12th arrondissement. This active urban farm is oriented around different environmental and social activities. We produce, we let it grow, we consume through an organic canteen, we allow the production of compost and above all, the henhouse allows the sale of eggs. And this, in the middle of Marseille! A calendar of events to follow, particularly on the facebook page, provides a necessary pedagogical approach for the general public. A place of exchange and sharing that changes the urban landscape.

Created in 1957 by Abbé Pierre, Emmaus, also known as the Emmaus companions, is an association that we (unfortunately) still need more and more, in a city like Marseille as well as everywhere in France. The scourge of precariousness, linked to the feeling of isolation, is an evil that must be fought on a daily basis and for this reason, the hundreds of volunteers in Marseille who are mobilized in the various centers and some stores in the city are more active than ever. In this center located in the Pointe-Rouge district, there is a space dedicated to donations, which you can make for clothes as well as furniture or toys, and a sales space open to all.