Walking the paths of Bois-Becke is all Gino Patrigali can afford at this difficult time. In December 2021, he quit his job due to a health issue he believes to be work-related. He lost all of his income in a dispute with his employer and his insurer.

He has resigned himself to turning to social security. At some point the labels will have to be removed. We say to ourselves, “It’s the last resort. It will be a situation that will take me three or four months, the time to recover, the time to recover the body, the time to recover the head overloaded with stress and anxiety.’

But 16 months later nothing is settled. With a $1,025 monthly housing payment and a $768 welfare check, Gino ended up in debt. He went for help.

There’s the Action Plus gang, there was Solutions Budget Plus. First we tried to calculate. We said, “How do you get there?” I was like, “This is temporary, I’ll put this on my credit card.” We know what’s next.

“No one is immune! »

Anyone can have an event in their life and end up on welfaresays the director of Action-Plus, Geneviève Bouchard.

That’s the message Action Plus will be hammering out during Welfare Dignity Week. Less than $800 a month is insufficient, according to the director. If we were to do it today with indexing from 50 years ago, we would have a check for $1,638 for a single person.

Through group grocery shopping and food aid, Gino keeps going. I had a friend who had access to Tafel. Watching this made me feel like a scammer. I felt like I took the good from someone who needed it more than I did.

Moisson Estrie’s Managing Director, Christian Bibeau, is aware of this way of thinking. Respect for dignity is very important. First, because getting food aid is never easy. Nobody arrives at Moisson Estrie happy.

According to the director of Moisson Estrie, extra effort must be made this week for the dignity of all.

” No matter what storms we go through, we need to be recognized at our full potential as individuals, not problems »

According to Jean Arel’s report