Gerard Crombez
Gerard Crombez , (March 26th 1941, with Tulle - September 4th 1980, Bali) is the founder of the Groupement for the insertion of the physical handicapped people (GIHP).
Holder of one THESE of general mathematics and physics, and an ECA of mathematics applied, it founds this grouping with Nancy, in 1964, with the collaboration of his brother, Yves Crombez, then medical student, Jacques Poncin, and some other friends.
Its idea comes from the inexistence, in the middle of the Sixties, of structures appropriate to the Handicap are to facilitate to them their displacements, their mobility, their autonomy as well through their studies as of their daily life.
It meets successively Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Simone Veil, Alice Salt maker-Seité, Pierre Bérégovoy, which, within the framework of their respective mandates, will bring all to him their concrete supports.
He sensitizes the opinion and the statesmen by exclaiming on March 27th 1971: “Of the political parties defend rightly the underprivileged classes of which not enough representatives reaches the Amphithéâtre S, but which, I require it of you, will go up on the barricades in the place and for the physical handicapped people! ”
He fought to obtain public authorities a recognition and to reject all that resembled pity.
Gerard Crombez concretely organized and created hearths of lodging in the main cities of France with Montpellier, Amiens, Nancy and other cities to facilitate the studies of the young physical handicapped people in the universities of these cities. But, it is especially by the creation of services transport to Paris, Nancy, Bordeaux, Brest, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Lyon, the Meeting, Marseilles, Berck, that Gerard Crombez is distinguished at the end of the Sixties.
Thanks to these services, the physical handicapped people can go to the university or work more easily, and daily, with a cost close to public transport for the valid people.
It is for this reason invited by the Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shinbun , one of the largest Japanese daily newspapers, to take part in an international congress on the Man and Transport with Tokyo in 1978. It is deceased at the time of one of these many voyages, with Bali in Indonesia, at the 39 years age, of the continuations of its disease. He was Chevalier of the academic Palmes, and Knight of the National order of the Merit and holder of the Médaille of honor of Youth and the Sports.
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