20 years. The age of all potentialities. Commitments and selections, but in addition the time of affection and recklessness … And but: “It’s hard to be 20 years old in 2020”, within the phrases of Emmanuel Macron, pronounced simply earlier than re-containment. A sentence which additionally sums up the sensation of a complete era whose horizon has darkened after this black yr marked by the well being disaster.
We are in Le Havre, in a small condo occupied by Zaccharia El Azzaoui, a 3rd yr civil engineering student. We ask her what’s in her fridge proper now. “Not much unfortunately. There are ginger and tomatoes.”
Zaccharia, 21, is in his third yr of research in civil engineering in Le Havre.
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At the start of the month we eat two meals a day and the final two weeks it is one meal a day. A meal which typically consists of a baguette, with water, espresso and so on …
Shopping, bowling and calculator in hand
Zaccharia is 21 years outdated. When he has paid his lease and his expenses, he has between 50 and 100 euros a month left to feed himself. It is due to this fact the ball in his abdomen and the calculator in his hand that he goes out to do his buying.
“I see the price of carrots and the idea is not to exceed a certain amount at the end of the races. So we will always choose the large quantity but at a low price.”
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“To fill his fridge, Zaccharia shows concentration. He adds up inexpensive products, subtracts the most expensive foods and multiplies strategies to save.” Cheese shouldn’t be allowed … There are numerous issues you could’t have when you are on this scenario “, he admits.” This would be the first and final time of the month that I am going buying … “With 2 chopped steaks?” Yes … minimize into 4 and flattened … “. Two hamburgers for eight meals, therefore. 2020 and its health crisis have plunged the student into great precariousness.
“I’ve despatched CVs to a number of job presents however due to the Covid and the reconfiguration a lot of the institutions the place I utilized have gone to 50% of employees … and so I feel that is why my CV was not accepted, “Zaccharia tells us, specifying that he will continue to apply” to permit me to return greater than as soon as a month to the grocery store.
For meals, Zacharia has no alternative however to pay. In Le Havre, there is no such thing as a solidarity grocery retailer for college kids. The just one in Normandy is on the Caen campus.
At the Agorae solidarity grocery retailer, a basket for every week in opposition to a symbolic euro
TheAGORAé*, has been open for 5 years and the queues are getting longer. In regular instances, precarious college students pay 10% of the worth of the merchandise right here. AGORAé presents itself on its website as “the student social and solidarity grocery store on campus” and is managed by student volunteers. It can be a spot of alternate and sustainable growth. Can declare for this meals assist these whose “the rest to dwell day by day (all of your revenue per month-all bills / 31) is decrease than 7.40 €.
Based in Caen, the AGORAé is a social grocery retailer for college kids in issue.
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With the second confinement, the staff arrange free admission for normal beneficiaries and a symbolic one euro basket for all different college students.
We have a stage of normal beneficiaries of 300, these are 300 college students in a really precarious scenario however we all know that there are extra. The figures are putting: since confinement, almost 25% of scholars imagine they’ve had nice monetary difficulties as a result of lack of a job or an internship.
Most of the grocery merchandise come from donations from supermarkets or meals banks: just a few brief use-by dates, typically ugly greens … however for college kids, it is the assure of every week of menus. balanced. “It has a big impact on success in studies, it increases concentration and memory capacity… That’s why we offer fruits and vegetables all the time to encourage students to get out of their routine. and to cook themselves too “, explains Marine Rabelle, student and president of the Campus Basse Normandie Federation.
In Restos-U, meals at € 1
Another possibility for scholarship college students: since September, meals in all college eating places have gone from € 3.30 to 1 euro. Menus cooked on website to remove during times of confinement.
3.30 euros for every meal, as a scholarship holder it was difficult. There it’s true {that a} meal at 1 euro, it modifications life.
The CROUS mobilized throughout confinement to maintain their Restaurants U ‘and cafeterias open and supply meals at 1 euro.
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Obviously, even to remove, meals stay at € 1 for scholarship college students and € 3.30 for non-scholarship college students! 🙌#Nutswithyou #always by your side #LesCrous # students
– Les Crous (@Cnous_LesCrous) November 3, 2020
Student precariousness is gaining floor
French or not, grant holder or not, the well being disaster has eaten away at college students’ sources and precariousness has gained floor.
Heating shouldn’t be allowed. It is luxurious that we can not afford.
Back in Le Havre in Zaccharia’s small condo, we uncover that he doesn’t warmth up and that his pc tools which permits him to check at a distance is failing … The pursuit of his research is just as much as one thread. Zacharia clings to it.
“Do not add a student crisis to the health crisis”
Aware of this growing precariousness and highlighting all of the difficulties as a consequence of confinement inside college training, 10 university presidents signed a forum (printed Wednesday, November 25), asking to not add “a student crisis to the health crisis”.
Who realizes that a whole bunch of hundreds of scholars, younger adults in building, are, regardless of our efforts, increasingly more on their very own, with conditions of psychological misery that are added to a rising social misery?
University Presidents worry “a new human crisis with unforeseeable consequences” after which ask the Head of State to respect his dedication, “that this health crisis does not reinforce social inequalities”.
* Agoraé Caen:
University campus / Campus 1
23 avenue de Bruxelles
BP 85153
14 070 Caen
TO HAVE. Regional surveys: “To be 20 years old in 2020 in Normandy”, Wednesday December 2 at 11:05 pm on France 3 Normandie
Not to be missed Wednesday December 2 at 11:05 p.m. on France 3 Normandie
Enquêtes de région presents you unpublished surveys from the editorial employees of France 3 Normandie:
Live with out partying, with out touring, with out touching one another. With the well being disaster, younger individuals too needed to study to maneuver ahead, masked, confined, to check, alone, behind their computer systems.
Discover the portrait of three Norman college students that we adopted all through this yr 2020: Camille, Lauriane and Lisa.
Report by Pauline Latrouitte, Gwenaëlle Louis, L. Velay, F. Domerc, S. Chemin, R. Saint-Estève, C. Vilcocq, J. Pierens and Okay. Lepainteur
- Precarious college students
The well being disaster has accentuated precariousness amongst younger individuals and particularly amongst college students. Some of them even discover it tough to feed themselves.
Report by Amandine Pinault, Christophe Meunier, Claude Leloche, O. Launay and F. Lefeuvre.
- Young individuals concerned in 2020
In this gloomy context, do younger individuals nonetheless have the vitality to have interaction in an activist life or to defend their political or humanitarian concepts?
Discover the portrait of three Norman college students that we adopted: Tom, Thomas, Clément for whom their dedication has solely simply begun.
Report by Jean-Baptiste Pattier and Didier Meunier
Regional surveys couldn’t conclude this present on youth with out speaking about love. If the well being disaster doesn’t promote romance, social networks have taken over. More and extra conferences, for one night or for all times, are actually achieved because of purposes. If the 2020 era has a sure freedom of their relationships, you will notice that conventional love continues to be the stuff of goals.
Report by Medhi Weber and Didier Meunier
