About ten years ago, Stéphane Lusgarten, a physical education teacher, decided to give back to sport its vocation as a tool for social reintegration by creating Viacti alongside Michael Mamodhoussen.
What is the objective of your association?
STEPHANE LUSGARTEN.
Physical activity is a therapy and affects everyone.
However, getting back in motion costs money and is not necessarily possible.
We therefore allow marginalized and precarious people to acquire health benefits, and therefore to live longer, without forgetting the development of self-confidence, the bond with others and many other beneficial things.
Sometimes the audience we identify is unreachable.
For these people, the priority is to eat and sleep, sport comes after...
What are the terms?
All you need is a medical certificate, or even a prescription for ALD (long-term illnesses, which concern serious illnesses and even obesity), a means that doctors are increasingly prescribing and which is reimbursed by Security social.
In this case, sport is part of a treatment, like medication.
Also, the motivation report is very important, because it makes it possible to define the desires and shows where are the brakes which block the beneficiary.
The real question we ask is:
How can you take action to set yourself in motion?
Where is the support?
It is always done on “the ground”, that is in one of the 80 social structures of the capital.
Coming to see us allows people who have lost contact with society and others to get out of their protected zone, and above all to get moving.
Attending a session is the perfect pretext.
People who usually live on the street have the real feeling of getting out of it for a period of time, they find hope.