The culmination of a journey started fifteen years ago and the response to a spiritual call.
This is how Véronique Devise,
“Marie-Véronique”
by her real first name and as certain beneficiaries call her with whom she has forged bonds of friendship, describes her election - approved by the Conference of Bishops of France - this Tuesday to the national presidency of Secours Catholique.
And it is an understatement to say that this 56-year-old social activist, four times mother and grandmother, is made to succeed Véronique Fayet, the former assistant of Alain Juppé at the town hall of Bordeaux who held the function for seven years.
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This daughter of farmers from Pas-de-Calais, from a family of missionaries very involved in associations, has dedicated her life to others,
"to the little ones, those who need it most
.
"
Whether in the Valenciennois when this social assistance accompanies, at the end of the 1980s, families whose daily life rhymes with unemployment, violence, alcoholism.
Or, later, when this
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