For about ten years already, the nonprofit Péniche Accueil has been striving to maintain or rebuild social links among adults living in extreme uncertainty. In Lyon, opposite 37 quai Gailleton, it offers five days per week, to the most disadvantaged, an unconditional welcome, a possibility of counseling, information and guidance, access to hygiene (toilets, showers, hairdresser), care in association with Médecins du Monde, and miscellaneous activities: games, meals, outings, entertainment.
Apart from the availability of warm beverages and care, the counseling offered by Péniche Accueil also covers the administrative areas and various activities designed to recreate a dialogue which this public lost sight of ages ago.
The nonprofit operates every afternoon throughout the year and Sundays in connection with the "winter plan" (mid-November to mid-April) with four full time employees and about fifty unpaid volunteers. The number of people welcomed daily varies from about forty to over a hundred.
