Tribune. With the decline of the pandemic, the legitimate desire to “move on” risks making us forget the principles that have guided our lives for over a year: solidarity, attention to others, our necessary interdependence, which regardless of social status or place of residence. To forget those who are on the front line to care for, accompany, teach, protect us, but also to allow us to feed ourselves or to clean our streets. Finally, to make people forget that Ile-de-France, already fragmented, has harshly shown its fragility in the face of the pandemic.
The fundamental mistake would be to start all over again as before. However, Ile-de-France is at the crossroads between an attractiveness that does not benefit all parts of its territory, especially those experiencing widespread poverty, a cost of living that hinders access for many families with basic needs, territorial fractures which generate tensions and weaken them as a whole, and aspirations for a gentler way of life which encourage departures.
When personal vulnerabilities are added to this – an illness, an accident or a social difficulty, transitory as well as lasting – then the under-endowment of equipment and services as well as their unequal distribution are experienced very concretely and on a daily basis. Many Ile-de-France residents are therefore struggling to be assured of dignity in all their life paths.
Solidarity and health associations work every day with people in a situation of loss of autonomy, disability or exclusion, with the sick and young people to be protected. Through their agility and innovation, they held out at the height of the crisis.
Legitimacy of the field
They therefore have the legitimacy of the field to now want a real and effective mobilization in the face of the vulnerabilities of our lives, to new epidemiological risks such as those linked to climate change, and this in all their health, social, societal and economic impacts.
Committing to an inclusive and caring society that guarantees equal attention to respect for the rights of people, whatever their condition, this is a resolutely human Ile-de-France.
But, the shortage of professionals puts associations in great difficulty to fulfill their missions. This weakening due to the lack of attractiveness of human professions is approaching a breaking point in many cases. And it is the heads of associations who have to deal with operations that can be degraded, to the detriment of vulnerable people.
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