"Freedom!" exclaims Pascal as he proudly shakes the keys of his model new compact "tiny home" on wheels.
And what sweetens the second is that he has helped construct the cellular dwelling himself.
Homeownership was maybe not on the playing cards for the unemployed 52-year previous, till he started working with AMISEP, a social outreach organisation that provides coaching to adults in Brittany, France.
"The specificity of the undertaking developed by AMISEP is to construct cellular houses with homeless folks, and be sure that the long run inhabitants of those cellular houses are concerned in the entire development part," Simon Robitaille, who's heading up the undertaking on the organisation, defined.
Furthermore, Robitaille says the undertaking can reply to a requirement within the space for smaller-scale housing models.
"Within the Gulf of Morbihan, we have now lots of difficulties discovering small housing at contained charges for people who find themselves on social minima, who work on short-term contracts, part-time, issues like that," he mentioned.
Venture's social dimension
The undertaking is designed to supply folks in precarious positions comparable to asylum seekers, homeless folks, or folks in unemployment the chance to personal houses and in addition acquire sensible expertise in development.
"I attempt to consider every particular person to see a number of of their expertise and the place they really feel most comfy," Bastien Gohier, the technical director of the undertaking, mentioned.
"I attempt to divide the duties in accordance with every particular person's talents," he added.
For the members, it’s not solely the fortunate likelihood to personal their very own cellular dwelling drawing them in, but in addition the social dimension of the undertaking.
"It is necessary as a result of I haven't got a lot to do. I come right here to maintain myself busy and it does me good," mentioned Malian asylum seeker and undertaking participant, Mahono Coulibaly.
"It makes me completely satisfied to take part within the environment right here. I actually get pleasure from it".
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