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"I immediately loved this job": a school in Aubervilliers trains future building caretakers

11/4/2023, 6:30:41 AM

Highlights: The municipality of Seine-Saint-Denis and its social housing office inaugurated this Friday a school for building caretakers. For many of them, the vocation was born gradually, almost naturally, by observing their building caretaker working in their service for years. "I've always lived in housing estates, in neighbourhoods that were a bit hot, where I watched the guards work," says Ibrahima, 26, who is part of the very first class of the school.


Faced with a wave of retirements, the municipality of Seine-Saint-Denis and its social housing office inaugurated this Friday a school for the

For many of them, the vocation was born gradually, almost naturally, by observing their building caretaker working in their service for years. "I've always lived in housing estates, in neighbourhoods that were a bit hot, where I watched the guards work, create a relationship of trust with the tenants," says Ibrahima, 26, who is part of the very first class of the school for building caretakers officially inaugurated this Friday morning in Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis.

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