RÈGLES ÉLÉMENTAIRES

Règles élémentaires is a French association that fights against menstrual precariousness, and the taboo of menstruation.

Collect & Redistribute

Règles élémentaires' first mission is to allow everyone to organise their own collection of sanitary pads. We then ensure the redistribution via our partner associations throughout France.

Raising awareness

Raising awareness is an essential, important mission to our charity. One of our objectives is to break the taboo of menstruation, and this goes through speech, education, and information. Through workshops, events or content creation, we put our expertise at the service of raising awareness.

LES 4 ROUES ASSOCIATION

The charity was created in 2000 by residents, their families and staff members of the Maison Bleue, a living centre for disabled people in Saint-Pourçain, in Puy de Dôme.
The purpose of this self-managed charity is to promote projects and the integration of people with reduced mobility, who are residents of the institution.

Several projects have been carried out: production of short films, adapted skiing, wheelchair football, Cimgo Open de France (machines allowing people with disabilities to venture on all types of terrain for hiking or walking).

EMMAÜS

Identity

Emmaüs was born 74 years ago to help people who are victims of various phenomena of exclusion, in order to find solutions that allow them to become actors in their lives again. Faithful to the will of Abbé Pierre, Emmaüs has become both a factory of social innovations and solidarity to help people in very precarious situations, and a committed, militant front in favour of a more humane and fairer society model.

Snowboarders from around the world have come together through Snowboarders Of Solidarity to help young Afghan snowboarders escape death threats and immediate danger in their home country, in the face of the recent Taliban takeover.
Members of the Afghan Snowboard Team were able to flee the country. Some have been given asylum in Canada, the United States, Germany and Sweden, but others are still waiting in third countries for their visa to be accepted, including 7 people in Pakistan.

These young refugee athletes (between 18 and 25 years old), women and men, defenders of women's rights and human rights through sport and education, had to leave everything behind: their family, friends, studies, savings.

Thanks to their shared passion, the charity has implemented a follow-up in order to support them in their administrative procedures. They also provide them with daily support by paying for accommodation and food.

In the words of Dub inc

Zigo (Dub inc's drummer) learned about this initiative while listening to Victor Diavet's interview on the Les Baladeurs podcast. Everyone in the band was deeply moved by the journey of the young Afghan snowboarders and the determination of the whole Snowboarders Of Solidarity team, so we decided to support them in their fight.

Center for Children in Need SAINTE THÉRÈSE

The Sainte Thérèse de Loumbila Center for Children in Need, located near Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and founded in 1995, is a facility that welcomes and supports orphans and children in distress from 0 to 18 years old.
Its objectives are to educate and train orphans and/or underprivileged children; to support children from vulnerable families with donations; to provide shelter, food, and clothing.
Beyond material aid, the project is aimed at facilitating the integration of children into society, by making them autonomous and responsible.

In 2017, we went to play in Ouagadougou as part of the "Rendez-vous chez nous" festival. Singer Alif Naaba, with whom we made a song ("Enfants des ghettos" on Paradise), came with us on that journey and showed us around the center he was sponsoring. We were moved by the team's incredible work, their benevolence towards the children, the energy they deployed to ensure schooling, their management of the nursery, and also by the development of a local economy with such initiatives as growing spirulina, or setting up a bakery and pizzeria.

The "La Sapinière" Medico-educational Institute welcomes children and teenagers aged 5 to 20 with moderate to severe intellectual impairment and possibly other difficulties, in particular disorders of relationship and behavior, autism, and other related disorders.
The sports and cultural association within the institute offers educational and cultural outings, organizing in particular the Sapidays festival, a two-day event that sheds the spotlight on the Sapinière facility in a friendly atmosphere.

We were asked to do a support concert for the benefit of the association as part of the Sapidays festival; but it was not possible for us to respond positively. Nevertheless, we found the initiative moving and interesting, so we decided to make a one-time donation to the association.

GOM'ACTIF

Young artists, musicians, journalists, traders, humanitarian workers, bankers, activists, and committed citizens are trying to help the population of Goma in the face of the coronavirus epidemic.
They also provided assistance to populations most in need during and after the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano.

After our visit to the Amani festival in the city of Goma, we kept a lot of links with local cultural actors; we were very sensitive to the collective group that had been set up spontaneously in order to help the population.

The Maison Solidaire provides material and human support to refugees, migrants, homeless people, as well as people in a situation of medical, psychological or social distress. The facility strives to welcome people decently, whether in terms of accommodation, access to care, and schooling. It also ensures the quality of care.


In our city of Saint Etienne, anybody who is sensitive to this type of cause knows the Maison Solidaire and their work. It is therefore quite logical and natural that we try and help the association in different ways, through regular donations, inviting young people staying at the facility to our concerts in Saint-Étienne, or by offering sweatshirts or t-shirts from the band.

ABOMEY SCHOOL SUPPORT

The goal is to identify young people from primary schools to university around their academic abilities but with financial difficulties that would prevent them from continuing a course up to their results.
This is how, for almost 10 years, around ten young students have been followed, sometimes on a long-term basis, to help them cover their tuition fees (school materials, enrollment in higher education, student housing, etc.).

Komlan, one of the two singers of Dub inc, is from the region of Abomey in Benin and is the son of the initiator of this approach to help with schooling, which the collective continues today.
It was important for him to raise awareness and involve the band, which definitely relates to the values ​​of education and support promoted by the collective group.

MakiGo is an international participatory network at the service of wildlife. The association was founded in 2017 with four specific objectives in mind:
"SUPPORTING biodiversity through our various campaigns and missions,
RAISING AWARENESS as much as possible, and making our way of existing evolve into a way of coexisting,
GIVING opportunities to act concretely in endangered ecosystems,
REPRESENTING a source of information for the international community sharing our values."