Bagnols-sur-Cèze: “It gives strength”, a great outpouring of generosity for the Les Hamelines medical-educational institute devastated by water in March

Around the director Emmanuelle Pawlaczyk (center), Stéphane Defour and Jean-Baptiste Honorin (left), Catherine Dollé (right), and part of the management team of the medical-educational institute. C. C. – Midi Libre

This Monday, 16/30 Formation, Handiwork and HDI Informatique offered thirteen computers to the IME which was attacked by Cèze on March 10. Following the flood, all stakeholders in the area provided their support to the structure.

The medical-educational institute Les Hamelines is recovering with difficulty from the flood which devastated the premises and equipment of the structure on March 10. The call for donations relayed by the press received a great response in the region, a solidarity for which the IME team is very grateful. "We lost 90% of the equipment. We're starting from scratch […]. On was able to maintain support for young people, the team is creative and adapts to circumstances. We were able to reopen our application restaurant three days a week& ;hellip;", summarizes director Emmanuelle Pawlaczyk.
This Monday, May 6, at the end of the afternoon, thirteen laptops and their bags were offered to the IME. Thanks to the joint generosity of 16/30 Formation represented by Catherine Dollé and Jean-Baptiste Honorin who is also director of Handiwork, and Stéphane Defour, manager of HDI Informatique. "To 16/30 Training, we regularly renew the computer equipment, indicates Jean-Baptiste Honorin.I went to see my friend Stéphane Defour who refurbished them and installed software, voluntarily. Handiwork financed more efficient disks so that these computers would hold up well!" On a smaller scale, "we experienced a flood at the end of October 2022, recalls Catherine Dollé. We redeveloped a year after the disaster, we know what the deficit and lack are. We wanted to make a gesture". 

Maintain morale over time  

"The City, the Agglomeration, associations, families who have small means made donations, this touched us. It gives strength, courage. It’s complicated to maintain morale over time. But we rise up even stronger because supported by the actors of the territory", testified Mina Akchaini, head of department. The classrooms are unusable, the students have classes in prefabricated buildings until the end of the school year. The rains of recent weeks have not made it easier for the buildings to dry out. "We changed the destination of certain rooms, the autism center moved to the boarding school." With the& ;rsquo;hope that work can begin quickly for a return to normal at the start of the school year in September.

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