Fabienne Germonprez no longer lives on the coast of roses. Since 2002, she moved into a studio Mozart Street, on the other side of the road Oceania. She is now fifty-one years.
Before she shared the family home of the Green Woodpecker Street. It was the last child to leave home.
At seventeen she graduated from school at the College of the housewife Milliaire: a good foundation in childcare, cooking and sewing.
Fabienne quickly finds a job in a bourgeois family in the city where she will spend seventeen years between the household, cooking and table service because his employers are many.
Her boss has special requirements in terms of household: the soil must be washed on all fours, winter and summer. Whatever, Fabio has a good constitution. She did not protest.
win the tournament in 1985 Amnéville
Fabienne hidden in this picture: will you find her?
It's sports, diving and football Terville female Guénange. Twenty to twenty five years it will go by bike train twice a week to Guénange before you can afford a small Honda motorcycle.
But then, as time spent on her knees scrubbing the floor even when he is going to have frozen because of his health. Fabienne suffers from degenerative arthritis and it increasingly difficult to fulfill its task. In the years ninety she cares more children from another family for four years but in 1995 she threw in the towel. She can no longer and resigned, a way to rebel against his boss who will not let her go.
She has no income and pending the obtaining of adult disability allowance (AAH), it affects the RMI is where in 1998 she discovered the workshop machine from the floor of Oceania and its activities.
Fabienne then go to meetings Monday afternoon of Ivy Avenue de Guise. She has fond memories of the trip she had done with the center. It was an opportunity to see people and talk with them.
will ask Fabio AAH three times before having it. When asked this allowance, it must go before a jury of six people who will detail every angle and you ask
"why do you ask the AHA? .
The first time she could no longer bend down but did not dare tell the years of household on all fours.
He had to reapply a year later when her condition worsened. Finally the third time they sent her an internship in a sheltered workshop to test its employment opportunities.
She had to go to the help center by the work of St Julian for fifteen days. Fabienne was forced to stop three weeks but it was one of the few to have completed his internship after stopping medicine. It affects 700 € per month.
Today she travels on foot or by bicycle. She used to ride bikes with men but now she needs a bicycle adapted to his knee problems: a bike grandmother.
But if she needs to exercise, ride Cycling is also dangerous: last year she was hit by a motorist opened his door when she passed. As she went to get his nephew out of school, she did not wait to be called the ambulance service: it is quickly left but she suffered from her fall for over a week.
Since al'AH, Fabienne has trouble making ends meet. She met the social workers of the city and asked for help paying for its gas and electricity. He came to go to the Eating of heart, but believes it has surpassed the ceiling with his allowance. She is still entitled to the food bank. That's twice a month at Semaphore.
She was also Catholic Relief, a friend of the restaurants had told him about it but there were people who obviously had more needs it. She stopped going there. "Seek help early, it's hard. When you are used to reach out to you it's embarrassing and then you're afraid that it is always like that after. You critical and you feel belittled.
And then let them talk. "
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