Les Ateliers de la Bruyère

The association "Les ateliers de la bruyère" was founded in 1992 on the initiative of a social worker from the Agricultural Mutual Society, Bernadette GIBERT, and a group of local residents wishing to help people in difficult circumstances. At that time, the number of farmers benefiting from the Minimum Integration Income was growing, and social and professional exclusion phenomena were becoming increasingly frequent. The first action consisted of hiring around twenty RMI beneficiaries on Solidarity Employment Contracts to create a statue erected on the millennium path of St James of Compostela at the entrance to Saugues, while providing them with training to help them return to employment. The association subsequently expanded with the establishment of integration work programs in 1998, the creation of the "felt" workshop in 2002, the "green spaces" service in 2005, and so on. Les ateliers de la bruyère constitutes a Solidarity Economic Group, with the following missions: Helping employees return to work through personalized pathways and fostering economic development in our territory. We define ourselves as an enterprise: With an economic model, production workshops for goods…