2023-05-10 05:00:00
The least we can write is that they did not do it at the last minute at the ASBL Une Main Tendue, located rue Piret-Pauchet in Bomel. For about two years, Marc Lepinois, President of the ASBL, his four employees and his volunteers have been in total uncertainty as to the future of their activity. In question, not a financial problem, although they do not have an extended budget, but the work announced on the site of their storage shed, in the former CEMA factory, rue du Houyoux.
“We have known for almost two years that the building was bought by Thomas and Piron, and that it is intended for destruction, notes Janick Defruit, the manager of the ASBL. We immediately started looking for another building to replace it, but for two years, nothing helped.”
However, it is not the empty hangars that are lacking in the surroundings of the Walloon capital. “Of course many requests have been made to the authorities, again last week, but we are told that all the unoccupied buildings in town each have a future project, continues Emmanuelle Pire, administrative employee. However, we are not difficult, we do not even ask to benefit from it for free, we rent the current hangar and all the premises that we occupy, so we are ready to pay rent again.
If the situation becomes urgent, it is because the work on the site is progressing quickly. “We can receive a letter of expropriation overnight, and there it would be a disaster. There would be 1000m2 of European foodstuffs, unsold or unsaleable edibles that would end up on the street, that would quite simply sound the end of the ASBL, and therefore the abandonment of 3,600 households in Greater Namur. The only criterion that must be respected is a similar surface area to be able to have enough space to store the goods.”
She then continues by notifying the work that is taking place just in front of the entrance to the Hangar. “We were warned last week that the road was going to be drilled, but we have semi-trailers which come at least once a month to drop off 30 pallets of European parcels. As it stands, this truck can no longer pass and therefore deliver the goods to us. We haven’t really had time to organize ourselves, even if moving these goods turns out to be impossible.”
Political neutrality
Within the ASBL, no political affiliation is claimed. A long-standing desire, assumed, but recognized as a brake in the search for a building. “We do not want political affiliation to continue to guarantee neutrality, both among our volunteers and among our beneficiaries. But we have already said that if we were attached to political opinions, the problem would already be solved.”
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