they load a truck for Calais
Road transport driver final year students from the Isaac de l’Étoile high school in Poitiers are currently loading a truck to help migrants in Calais.
They have a love of driving in their hearts and perhaps also a little extra soul… Eleven students from the final year road transport goods driver class from Isaac de l’Étoile high school in Poitiers are currently driving, as part of their training, a “masterpiece”.
Linking the professional field to humanitarian action, they have chosen to collect clothes to then send them to Calais where an association will take care of giving them to people in need.
It is necessary to fill a school vehicle of 44 tons
The eleven high school students (ten boys and one girl) organized a collection within the establishment on Tuesday December 13, 2022. A second will be organized in mid-January 2023, before a departure for Calais scheduled for February 27, driving the school vehicle. High School.
A 44-ton vehicle that will be fully loaded with clothes that will have been sorted, packed in boxes and then put on pallets. “We know that there are a lot of needs there, explains Hugo, one of the student organizers. We contacted an association, L’auberge des migrants, which brings together other associations. As our stay there will last a week, we have also planned meetings and visits. We will visit a company that does international transport in England and we will do cultural visits on the way back. »
To finance such a project, under the benevolent gaze of their road driving teacher, Christophe Marchand, and Anne Heurtebise, English teacher, the eleven high school students from Isaac de l’Étoile organized a raffle in their establishment. Baptized “The educational and humanitarian route”, this action is already making them proud.