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Now, thanks to a Paris advertising man, Pascal has a live-in baby sitter and Mme. Blin has an adopted family. The case is not unique in France. Since last year the ad executive, Jean-Pierre Coffe, 35, has placed 1,411 lonely old people in families that need a...
Most of the matchings are temporary - lasting for a summer vacation or a holiday period - and Coffe has been able to place only half a dozen men. "The whole world welcomes a grandma," he says, "but almost no one wants a grandpa. It's sad."
Morocco Winter. The grand'mère au pair program started last year when a welfare agency asked Coffe to promote a fund-raising campaign to benefit the elderly and indigent. Coffe did not like the idea of a charity appeal. "It's nothing," he says, "for a...
He decided to try something modeled on the au pair system, in which families take in students. The girls are not paid servants, but they help out with kids and housework in exchange for room and board. "Everybody thought I was mad," Coffe recalls, but he was sure the idea...
Sunday, September 5--Yesterday the old man took me to see his fields of manioc and coffe, at my request. Most of the fields are simply stretches of forest that have been laboriously cleared by hand, with hoe and machete. The beautiful, even rows of corps in dark earth that...