Many experiments are conducted on giving vulnerable people access to food. But do these experiments allow true evolutions and social changes? Two levels of questions need to be explored: can these experiments improve the quality of people's food? Do they allow them to increase their skill seton this matter, and therefore to gain autonomy and sovereignty? Do they make them actors of a sustainable transition ? This research-action project aims to test a methodology based on community activity in order to recognize and develop the skills of people in vulnerable situations. This project is based on local experiments around food aid, to assess how these experiences contribute to increasing the skills of people in precarious situations. The aim is for these skills to empower and emancipate them in regards to food issues and other areas of their lives, and among other things for women to confirm their position in social and political spheres. The finalization of this project will be the production of a "Popular Advocacy" to take precariousness into account in food projects aiming to improve the quality of food. This project is open to: volunteers and professionals from food aid associations and beneficiaries of these associations. We are targeting 80 participants.
We wanted to develop a methodology that highlights the skills and knowledge of people in precarious situations, and from there, propose workshops that allow them to act on their unsatisfactory life situations, food in the framework of this project. In doing so, we wanted to contribute to support the emancipation process of the people involved in the project.
We have observed that food aid actions do not reduce precariousness in the long term and do not allow people to free themselves from certain constraints. On the contrary, they maintain people in an assignment to the attributes of precariousness. We needed to develop a methodology to propose to organizations in order to change the modes of social intervention and the relationship between people in precarious situations and the volunteers of associations. To enable everyone to exercise active citizenship and to be equipped to do so. The resources on this aspect were not very developed in this sector.