distribution of food packages for precarious students
Since the health crisis, the precariousness increasingly affects students in Toulouse and throughout France. The Toulouse Food Bank recently asserted that 25% of its beneficiaries were between 15 and 25 years old. Faced with this observation, theUnion of Communist Students (UEC) has therefore decided to organize a distribution of food packages to help them. It will take place on December 1st at 4 p.m. on the site of the university residence Daniel Faucher. The French Communist Party will also be present to support the action.
The Union of Communist Students deplores the end of the 1 euro meal for non-scholarship holders
Many initiatives have been put in place in recent months to help students. This is the case of meal at 1 euro launched in September 2020. It allows all students to benefit from two meals a day for this price in the CROUS university restaurants. But since the start of the 2021 school year, the device has been restricted of only scholarship students. “With the end of meals at 1 euro for non-scholarship holders, how many of us have gone from the benches of the Faculty to the files of the food banks?”, Wonders the UEC then.
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In addition, through this food distribution, the UEC also wishes to make a inventory of the situation the Regional Center for University and School Works (CROUS). “From our universities to our university restaurants, through university residences, the Crous is in crisis“, she laments. And to add:” while the students of the Daniel Faucher university residence no longer had hot water and laundry, the profits of the wealthy have increased by 30% “.
For the UEC, the government’s stimulus plan for CROUS is insufficient
The UEC also denounces the files of endless waits. According to these students, the Recovery plan of the government to CROUS is insufficient. “The many degradations are only increasing […] in addition to a budget that is still too low for the CNOUS and the CROUS “, notes the UEC which quotes in particular the presence of cockroaches to the City U of Chapou.
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If the distribution of food parcels is there for support students in a precarious situation, it also has a political aspect a week away from elections pour the renewal members of the CROUS. “For us, it is clear, we need a policy of radical transformation of society and give our country an ambition to have the best educated youth in the world”, affirm the members of the UEC. With their list, they wish as well “meet the challenges social, economic and ecological. But also to break with the capitalist logic “, which according to them,” oppress the students “.