The companies cover four main activities: services for organisations (cleaning, administrative tasks, solidarity-based grocery shops and cafés, after-school care, etc.), cleaning and maintenance services for local authorities, manufacturing activities (logging, car repairs and woodworking), and activities related to the environmental transition such as gardening and urban agriculture, which represent between 30-50% of the association’s total business. “These jobs are part of the drive to transition to food solidarity, in order to help everyone eat better,” added Lésia Zahnd. All of these activities address regions’ unmet needs and utilise employees’ expertise, skills and interests. It is a way of getting them fully involved in working life.