The Le Sel de La Vie association, anchored in Marseille, has been giving 24 mothers from priority neighborhoods access to the world of the sea since July 2023. The aim is to empower them and open up new horizons for them. Thanks to this project, called ‘les Daronnes prennent le large’, these women are taking their free boating license this summer. For Sarah Mamadi, one of them, it's a passport to freedom.
Sarah Mamadi invites you to meet her in a bistro next to the Old Port, where she is moored. Captain Coco. A typical Marseille pointu on which she is learning to navigate. In barely a year, this 47-year-old woman has managed the feat of returning to her studies in the first year of art and design school, to become an interior designer. And to swallow the theory of the coastal boating license. Visit beaconing, The new range of products includes a wide range of accessories, including acoustic signals, navigation rules and lights, l’use of a VHF radio... A list of skills as long as a car license. « At first, I found it insurmountable because there was so much new information. Fortunately, there was the Daronne group. On my own, I would have thought it was too much for me. »she stresses, with her gentle smile and quiet strength...
