DRUGS AND SOCIAL SCORES —40 years of Group A of Cassis / 20 years of House A — Cadress Rungen: “Politicians do not want to believe in the fight against drugs! »

“Today we must fight against corruption, money laundering, Unexplained Wealth and everything that drug trafficking brings to a country.”

Friday June 12, Group A of Cassis pulled out all the stops. Guests – not at all like the others – were invited to celebrate with the founding members of the NGO Group A of Cassis, its 40 years of existence. The chosen location: the reception, listening and support structure, located at rue St-Georges, Port-Louis, Lakaz A, which boasts its 20 years of unfailing presence among the most deprived, the marginalized and those rejected by the company; or, drug addicts, active and former users; sex workers; the homeless; People living with HIV (PLHIV. Around them, volunteers and center facilitators, and above all, mothers of drug addicts from the SEL group (Solidarity, Listening, Liberation). Cadress Rungen, founding member of Groupe A de Cassis, its president, Eddy Begue, and several other members of this large family, have the time a thanksgiving mass and an inauguration of the renovated center, took the time and the measure of time. “Nou ti naif ena 40 an de sela! nou pei exit dan petrin. Instead, here we are, celebrating 40 years of struggle! Si bann politicien ti krwar dan sa kont ladrog la, kapav nou pa ti pou la! » Cadress Rungen takes a lucid and raw look at the situation. we engaged, we were alongside the users of Brown Sugar. They were young people like me and the others. We got involved in this struggle. We saw young people and adults, like us, who were falling, in the street, next to us, in the neighborhoods where we lived. we learned that they were taking Brown Sugar and because they had become addicted to this harmful substance, they had no place to go. But where to go? the hospital? Don't we treat drug victims there? They spend two or three days in prison and end up on the same sidewalks where the merchants of death roam. We then had the idea of launching a group, which became Groupe A de Cassis.”

Joy and sadness

Cadress Rungen says he is “sad and happy at the same time”. He adds: “I am happy to see the mothers of drug addicts, our courageous mothers of the SEL Group. Many of them today have become fighters, warriors who help other Mauritian women, whose children are trapped by the merchants of death, to get back on their feet, to not fail.