What abej SOLIDARITE does

abej SOLIDARITE is a French non-profit association (loi 1901) founded in 1985 and headquartered in Loos, in the Lille metropolitan area, Hauts-de-France. The association employs approximately 180 staff and operates an integrated portfolio of social services targeting people experiencing homelessness, addiction, poverty, and social exclusion. Its programs include street outreach, day and night shelters, CPAM-authorized Lits Halte Soins Santé (LHSS) medical respite beds, a Centre d'Accueil et d'Accompagnement à la Réduction des risques pour Usagers de Drogues (CAARUD) harm reduction center, a Centre d'Hébergement et de Réinsertion Sociale (CHRS) for longer-term housing and reintegration, dedicated women's housing (Maison Corinne Masiero, opened 2023), and the pôme Accueil socio-professional integration program. Service delivery is human-staff-intensive, with no proprietary technology platform; operations rely on social workers, nurses, physicians, and outreach workers. The geographic footprint is concentrated in the Lille metropolitan area, with no documented presence outside Hauts-de-France.

The association's resources come from a diversified mix of public subsidies (from État, Métropole Européenne de Lille, ARS Hauts-de-France, and CPAM), individual donations, corporate patronage, membership fees, legacies, and life insurance. No revenue, budget, or financial figures are publicly disclosed. The governance structure is led by President Agnès Beyret and Director General Vincent de Coninck, with Vincent Morival directing the pôme Accueil integration program. Recent strategic activity includes participation in national policy pilots such as "Premières Heures" (2021) and SECPa (2022), the opening of new physical facilities (day shelter in 2025, CAARUD expansion in 2026), and the launch of dedicated women's housing in 2023, indicating a pattern of program deepening within the existing geographic perimeter rather than geographic expansion.

Name

abej SOLIDARITE

Legal name

Association abej SOLIDARITÉ

Website

https://abej-solidarite.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

abej SOLIDARITE is a French non-profit association founded in 1985 in Lille, operating 180 staff across shelters, healthcare beds, harm reduction services, and reintegration programs for homeless, addicted, and socially excluded people in the Lille metropolitan area.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Homeless and Social Services

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Social Assistance (624), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Housing Assistance & Homeless Services (BPAGAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Homelessness Prevention, Shelter & Supportive Housing Services (BPAIANAC)

Keywords

• Homeless shelter services
• Social reintegration programs
• Harm reduction services
• Housing first support
• Work integration workshops

Headquarters

HQ city

Loos

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Public Subsidies and Government Funding: abej SOLIDARITÉ receives funding from public partners to finance its core social mission activities including hosting, healthcare, and social support services.
2. Individual Donations: Individual donors contribute to the association through one-time or recurring donations, with 75% tax deductibility up to 1000 euros and 66% beyond.
3. IFI Donations (Impôt sur la Fortune Immobilière): The organization is authorized to receive IFI-deductible donations as part of its economic insertion activities, with 75% deduction up to 50,000 euros.
4. Legs and Inheritances: abej SOLIDARITÉ is authorized to receive legacies, with the Fonds de dotation managing real estate assets for the association.
5. Life Insurance and Donations: Donations and life insurance beneficiaries provide capital transfers without inheritance taxes.
6. Corporate Patronage and Sponsorship: Companies in the Nord region support through financial donations, skills-based sponsorship, in-kind donations, and employee mobilization. Corporate donors receive 60% tax deduction.
7. Membership Fees: Adherents pay membership fees and gain voting rights at general assemblies.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

abej SOLIDARITÉ is a French non-profit association that operates a continuum of social services for homeless and marginalized people in the Lille metropolitan area, including mobile outreach teams, day and night shelters, health centers, housing programs (emergency, transitional, and permanent), and work integration workshops. All services are provided free of charge to beneficiaries under an unconditional welcome and harm reduction philosophy, and the association is funded through public subsidies, individual donations, corporate patronage, legacies, and membership fees.

Product overview

abej SOLIDARITE is a non-profit social services organization offering a comprehensive ecosystem of programs and facilities to help homeless people exit precarity. The organization operates multiple interconnected services including day and night shelters (Accueil de jour, Halte de Nuit), healthcare services (Centre de santé, CAARUD), housing programs (CHRS with 130 places, Foyer d'Accueil Médicalisé, Un Chez-soi d'abord, Maison Corinne Masiéro), and work integration through social economy (La Ressourcerie, Blanchisserie, Premières Heures). All services follow a harm reduction, unconditional welcome approach with the goal of helping people sustainably exit street life through housing, healthcare, social support, and employment integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Accueil de jour (Day Shelter) Day shelter providing unconditional welcome to homeless people with services including hygiene facilities, meals, phone/copy access, and social accompaniment.
• Halte de Nuit (Night Shelter) Night shelter open 7 days a week from 21h to 8h for homeless people who cannot access traditional housing, with low-threshold rules including pet acceptance and alcohol tolerance. Welcomes about 50 people each night.
• Centre de santé (Health Center) Health center providing medical consultations, nursing care, psychological consultations, dermatology, screenings, vaccinations, and participatory health promotion actions. Welcomed 1,222 people in 2025.
• CHRS Rosa Parks Center for Housing and Social Reintegration offering 63 individual rooms, 48 studio apartments, and 19 scattered housing units (130 total places) for single adults with unconditional welcome.
• Foyer d'Accueil Médicalisé (FAM) Medicalized reception shelter for 41 residents with psychiatric disabilities and loss of autonomy requiring assistance with essential daily activities, featuring 24/7 nursing care and multidisciplinary support.
• CAARUD / Point de Repère Welcome and Support Center for Harm Reduction for Drug Users, providing unconditional access 4 days per week for drug users with prevention services, free sterile equipment, and social support.
• Un Chez-soi d'abord Therapeutic Coordination Apartment program providing housing for homeless people with severe mental illness using a Housing First approach with intensive multidisciplinary support, managed in a medico-social cooperation group.
• Maison Corinne Masiero
• La Ressourcerie Eco-responsible workshop selling objects and furniture destined for landfill, providing work integration opportunities for people in precarity.
• Blanchisserie (Laundry Workshop) Laundry service workshop co-financed by the European Social Fund providing work integration for people facing social and professional difficulties.
• Premières Heures Work integration program starting at 3 hours per week with progressive increase, designed for people not ready for classical insertion programs, providing up to 5 years of supported accompaniment.
• Equipes Mobiles (Mobile Outreach Teams) Two mobile teams present throughout the city and public transport to reach homeless people who cannot access traditional services, providing social accompaniment and connection to care.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,222 people welcomed at health center in 2025, with over 41% new patients
• +3 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Emmaüs DéficoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021abej SOLIDARITÉ partnered with Emmaüs Défi to implement the 'Premières Heures' device in Lille, which allows people experiencing extreme exclusion to gradually return to work. The device starts at 3 hours per week and can transition to a classic insertion contract. This partnership connects the association with 18 insertion structures in Paris.
• CHICON / À table citoyensminorOthersCHICON, an association running an insertion caterer, provides hot meals for the CAARUD on Thursdays. This partnership supports the social economy ecosystem in the Lille territory.
• Addiction Treatment Centers and Feminist AssociationsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMaison Corinne Masiero has established partnerships with addiction treatment centers and feminist or specialized associations for women's accompaniment. These partnerships support the holistic care of women in great marginalization.
• Groupement de Coopération Médico-Social partnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe 'Un Chez-soi d'abord' device is managed by a Groupement de Coopération Médico-Social of which abej SOLIDARITÉ is a member, including EPSM, Association la香, and CH Dunkerque. The device follows 8 national principles for housing-first approach to mental health.
• Lille, Strasbourg, Nantes Metropolitan AreasminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Premières Heures device was extended to Lille, Strasbourg, and Nantes metropolitan areas in 2021 as part of a national expansion from the Paris experiment by Emmaüs Défi.
• Laboratoire d'Humanité / La VeilleuseminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the neighborhood artists collective 'Laboratoire d'Humanité' which publishes the local newspaper 'La Veilleuse'. Together they organized a neighborhood party at the day shelter to integrate the facility with the local community.
• SIAO (Service Intégré d'Accueil et d'Orientation)coreOthersThe SIAO is the government-integrated system for housing orientation. All CHRS admissions are processed through SIAO, which manages the waiting list for emergency housing (115 calls) and coordinates with mobile teams.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Restos du Cœur: France's largest food-aid and social-inclusion non-profit with a network of accueil and insertion programs. Directly comparable on outreach and basic-needs service delivery to precariously housed populations; less directly overlapping on housing/health but comparable on insertion workshops.
• France Terre d'Asile: National non-profit specializing in accommodation, legal support, and social insertion for refugees and asylum seekers. Comparable model — accommodation facilities, mobile outreach, and reinsertion programs — with overlap in shelter/housing delivery for vulnerable populations.
• Association Aurore: Major French non-profit providing shelters, housing, healthcare, and social reinsertion for homeless and vulnerable populations across multiple French regions. Directly comparable operating model — outreach, day centers, CHRS, health and insertion services — at significantly larger scale.
• Emmaüs Solidarité: Paris-based non-profit operating emergency shelters, day centers, and housing programs for homeless populations. The closest French peer to abej: same 'unconditional welcome' doctrine, similar outreach and reinsertion continuum, and currently abej's direct partner on the Premières Heures program.
• Fondation Abbé Pierre: France's leading housing/homelessness advocacy foundation; comparable mission but more focused on policy advocacy, research, and direct housing operations (Pensions de Famille). Both organizations target the same beneficiary populations and operate CHRS-type housing.
• SAMU Social de Paris: Paris emergency social services organization operating mobile teams (115), day centers, and winter emergency plans. Highly comparable on outreach methodology, mobile teams, and unconditional-welcome philosophy; differs by being a public-interest group rather than an association loi 1901.
• Armée du Salut (Salvation Army France): Operates shelters, housing (Foyers), medicalized facilities, and social reinsertion programs across France for homeless, isolated, and excluded populations. Very directly comparable operating model — shelters, CHRS, FAM-type facilities, and unconditional welcome — with similar mission alignment and target beneficiaries.

Broad incumbents

• Médecins du Monde: International medical humanitarian NGO operating health programs for vulnerable populations including migrants, homeless, and drug users. Directly comparable on the healthcare-for-marginalized dimension (including harm reduction) and participatory community health, but at much broader geographic scope and advocacy focus.
• Croix-Rouge française: French Red Cross operates shelters, food aid, health centers, and social insertion nationwide at much larger scale. Comparable on healthcare-for-vulnerable and emergency-shelter offerings but as part of a vastly broader humanitarian portfolio; abej is a more specialized, single-region operator.

Others

• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) France: International humanitarian medical organization with a France section that runs programs for migrants and vulnerable populations. Comparable on the health-for-excluded dimension and harm reduction expertise; thematic peer rather than direct operator-compete since MSF does not run French shelter/housing networks.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles4 records

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