As part of its Project Banlieues (Suburbs Project), the BNP Paribas Foundation is supporting the “Aide aux Vacances des Jeunes” association [AVJ] which awards grants to finance holidays of young people whose families cannot afford it.

To finance these grants, AVJ collects cast-offs and other used items from the local population, and organises large jumble sales.

Michel Duchevet, the association’s chairman, spoke to the French RCF radio.

“We collect a lot of things, hold a jumble sale, and then distribute the proceeds. There’s a board of directors that manages all the social case files [...]. The case files are examined and then a decision is taken on each case and a grant is awarded.

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