Operational partners
To undertake reception, education, training and insertion missions, Apprentis d’Auteuil teams up with workers who deal with the issue of struggling youth and families in their own country. Together, they choose to unite forces through action, programs and practical projects in order to increase their ability to intervene and to advocate.
Action Enfants de Tous /Caritas Mali, Diocese of Ségou
Action Enfants de Tous (AET) is a welcoming centre at the service of street children with the goal to reinsert these children in their place of origin.
- Name of association: Action Enfants de Tous /Caritas Mali, Diocese of Ségou
- Date of creation: January 4, 2010
- Status: Caritas Mali, a non-government Catholic organisation
- Human resources: 15 permanent agents and four service providers
- Country: Mali
- City: Ségou
- Areas of Intervention: Children from the streets
Mission and activities
Protection and reinsertion of street children in Ségou, Mali.
Main activities
- Make the rounds of the streets
- Public awareness and advocacy
- Support (schooling and professional learning) within the framework of prevention
- Welcome and listening at the drop-in centre
- Health area, Treatment and management of diet and clothing
- Schooling and professional learning of children in residence
- Search of and return to families
Types of structures which are set up
- Drop-in centre
- Residence
Beneficiaries
- Children from broken families or with Koranic teachers
- Children talibés
Our partner from 2006
Apprentis d’Auteuil and AET Ségou collaborate for a number of years, notably within the framework of training educators and AET instructors.
Principal common activities
Protection and reinsertion activities of street children in Ségou:
1. Fulfilment on the field
- Financing of the TV documentary on AET Ségou
- Production of the radio programs on AET Ségou
- Equipment for the drop-in centre of AET Ségou
- Management of meals for children
- Support for the creation of a holiday camp favouring children in residence from AET Ségou
2. Technical support
- Project of skill reinforcement of the AET Ségou’s team
3. Educational action of international solidarity
- Project to create international solidarity sites with the Saint Roch establishments
Contact
Mathieu Lebas, Project manager
AFBK (Morocco)
AFBK acts for female victims of violence or in unstable situations, specifically creating welcome or drop-in areas which are also dedicated to parental support as well as suitable training. Moreover, the association develops educational activities alongside children from the working class districts together with a social childcare centre.
- Name of association: Association Féminine de Bienfaisance EL KHIR
- Date of creation: 1998
- Status: Non-profit organisation
- Human resources: six employees / eight volunteers
- Country: Morocco
- City: Essaouira
- Areas of intervention: support to women and families/ education
Mission and activities
Contribute to the social, legal and financial autonomy of women in instability and favour conditions of education and development for their children.
The main activities are:
- Literacy sessions, language lessons and tutoring
- Training in cookery, baking and multipurpose employee (recognised by the government)
- Awareness actions: health, hygiene and education
- Legal and social advice and support
- Social survey
- Professional insertion of women via the creation of cooperatives: provision of a service and catering service
- The establishment of a social childcare centre and participative
- Educational activities and cultural exchanges between young Franco-Moroccans
- Assistance to families: medical, distribution of clothes.
Types of structures which are put in place:
- A multipurpose day centre which integrates a drop-in centre, training, workshops, a multipurpose activity room
- A social childcare centre and participative
- A cooperative of provisions of service.
Beneficiaries
- 80 children and youth
- 150 women and families
Our partner from 2011
For a number of years, AFBK and Apprentis d’Auteuil work together for the socio-professional insertion of women and family support in their parental roles in order to create favourable conditions to education for their children.
Principle common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Creation of a drop-in centre and legal and social help
- Development of training in cookery and multipurpose employee
2. Technical support:
- Support to the establishment of support activities in parenting
- Support for the creation of a social childcare centre and participative
- Study visits
Contact
Sabine Mengue Riviere, Project manager
Al Karam (Morocco)
Al Karam takes action alongside young people from the streets and in great instability in Marrakesh and Safi proposing them educational support, access to schooling and to a variety of professional training. The association equally integrates an individual route leading young people toward insertion.
- Name of association: Al Karam
- Date of creation: 1997
- Status: Association recognised as promoting the public interest
- Human resources: 32 employees
- Country: Morocco
- City: Marrakesh and Safi
- Areas of intervention: Training and insertion/education/family support
Mission and activities
Contribute to family, school, social and professional insertion of children and youth in a situation of instability from the streets.
The main activities are:
- Street work
- Emergency accommodation
- Psychoeducational activities
- Family and educational reinsertion
- Parental support
- Professional insertion of children in unstable situations in Safi, Marrakesh and the surrounds.
- Non-formal education
- Awareness
- Advocacy in favour of children’s rights (the fight against all forms of exploitation)
Types of structures which are set up
1. In Marrakesh:
- Emergency accommodation centre for girls and boys
- A drop-in centre in Medina (children and young people from the streets)
- Orientation and professional insertion committee
2. In Safi:
- A mixed accommodation centre
- Traditional activities inherent in the management of young people from the streets
- Orientation and professional insertion committee
- Childcare centre and parental support
Beneficiaries
The beneficiaries reach the amount of 550 children and young people and 150 families. These are children from broken families, schooling and professional life, victim of serious physical abuse, mistreatment, marginalised and/or live on the streets.
Our partner from 2005
For many years, Al Karam and Apprentis d’Auteuil, work together for the construction of a training and insertion course adapted to their target public.
Principle common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Improvement of the parental support measures in Marrakesh and Safi
- Advocacy aimed at active players in the public, social and private realms in favour of children in difficulty within the framework of a consortium of associations
- Set up of an orientation and professional insertion committee aimed for youth in difficulty
- Support to the definition and formulation of the training modules: catering and horticulture
- Management in Marrakesh or reception at the childcare centre in Safi for parents concerned by this support
2. Technical support:
- Technical and financial support of the project "Professional insertion of young Moroccans in unstable situations in Casablanca, Safi and Marrakesh"
- Continued training of educators from the Safi and Marrakesh structures
- Reinforcement of the organisational skills of the association Al Karam
3. Coproduction:
- Support guide to orientation and professional insertion of young people in difficulty
- Participation of Al Karam within the community “families” for knowledge and practice.
- Educational action of international solidarity:
- International solidarity sites: the planning of a sport field (football) in Safi, organisation of the garden at the accommodation centre in Safi
- Event sites (CPF)
Contact
Sabine Mengue Riviere, Project manager
Chaine des Foyers Saint-Nicodème (Cameroon)
The Chaine des Foyers Saint–Nicodème is an apolitical non-profit Cameroon organisation whose goal is to take children out of the hell of the streets of Douala.
- Name of association: Chaine des Foyers Saint-Nicodème
- Date of creation: 1995
- Status: Association affiliated with the congregation of Saint Esprit
- Human resources: 37 employees
- Country: Cameroon
- City: Douala
- Area of intervention: Support to street children
Mission and activities
Contribute to the reduction of the phenomena of children roaming the streets of Brazzaville.
Welcome centre/drop-in centre that welcomes about 50 children three times a week who benefit from:
- Water access for washing themselves or laundry
- Access to nursing care
- Access to socio-educational activities
- Access to meals and rest
- Family reunification from the streets
- Schooling and training of children and young people welcomed and reunified
- Support, follow-up and evaluation of their life projects
Types of structures which are set up:
- Centre for housing
- Welcome and drop-in centre
Beneficiaries
660 young people (ages 9-17 years old) from the streets (children from the street, minors released from prison, ill-treated children).
Our partner from 1997
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports the Chaine des Foyers Saint-Nicodème in the institutional, educational and teaching assistance of young people in difficulty.
Our principle common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Rehabilitation of the stabilisation farm “PK 24” for ESR
- The set-up of a classroom in the multimedia room
- Development of educational workshops and of the production of the farm “PK 24”
2. Technical support
- Creation and organisation of training modules and educational and teaching exchanges
- Structural reinforcement and development
- Mission to offer support in information technology
3. Coproduction
- Creation of a training course: “street children” destined for educators
- Formulation and design of sessions by transnational teams
- Logistic organisation of sessions and selection of participants
- Production of common educational tools and of common awareness tools
- Support technically and methodologically the structuring of emerging networks or groups
4. Educational Actions of International Solidarity
- International solidarity actions
Christliches Jugenddorfwerk (Germany)
Christliches Jugenddorfwerk conducts an operation with youth experiencing school problems that have a physical and /or mental handicap and those that are exceptionally gifted.
- Name of association: Christliches Jugenddorfwerk
- Date of creation: 1947
- Human resources: 8.000 people
- Country: Germany
- City: Ebersbach
- Area of intervention: Support to the street children
Mission and activities
- Professional training for young people in difficulty
- Reception/support for youth in difficulty
The CJD, "Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutchlands" was created in 1947 and is a well-known NGO. For 50 years, the driving force of our work is “Don’t let anyone fall on the wrong track.” The CJD is a large national association for youth, education and social work. Each year, the CJD gives more than 155,000 youth and adults training by professionals and personalised support adapted to young people. The CJD works with these youth enabling them to develop all facets of their personality and the logo shows this approach. The three sides of its triangle symbolise the body, the mind and the soul and form a whole when they are united.
The human being’s Christian concept is the central theme in the global approach to education in CJD’s commitment. This educational concept is based on the following domains: religious, physical, artistic and health education. The CJD has 150 structures spread throughout the entire German territory. These structures are school institutions in general and professional teaching (primary schools, secondary, and professional training centres) schools with specialities and educational centres (boarding schools).
Beneficiaries
- 90,000 young people having problems at school
- young people with a physical and/or mental handicap and exceptionally gifted youth
Our partner from 1993
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports Christliches Jugenddorfwerk since its creation to strengthen the protection and support of street children.
Projects in common
- Class twinning
- Class exchanges
- Exchanges of youth groups
- Humanitarian worksite (Madagascar)
- Practical and know-how exchanges in the school and educational field
- Cross-disciplinary workshops
- General Management meetings
Contact
Pauline Bozec, Project manager
CNOS (Italy)
The CNOS undertakes a mission of welcoming, education and training of young people in social difficulty both in Italy and worldwide.
- Fédération CNOS-FAP, CNOS-Ecoles, CNOS-SCS, VIS CNOS, Centre National Œuvres Salésiennes
- Country: Italy
- City: Rome
- Areas of Intervention: Education and training of young people.
The CNOS is a national entity which aims to promote the Salesian identity within the Italian educational system. The CNOS is divided into three branches: the CNOS-FAP (professional training), the CNOS-Ecoles (general teaching) and the CNOS-SCS (social work). Moreover, the VIS (International Volunteering for Development) manages the international activity for the education and the cooperation for development in the world.
Mission and activities
- Establishments situated throughout Italy
- International activity by way of "Don Bosco International"
Types of structures which are put in place:
- More than 200 school institutions: primary schools, secondary schools and professional training centres
- Educational boarding schools
- Family houses and / or community orientated children’s houses
Beneficiaries
- More than 200,000 young people admitted in school establishments
- 2,700 in educational structures
Our partner from 2004
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports the CNOS in the education and training of youth since 2004
Main common activities
- School and cultural exchanges for young people
- Exchanges and training for teachers and educators
Contact
Laura Hendricksen, Project manager
Degetel (Moldova)
Degetel carries out support to people coming from disadvantaged environments with economic, social or sanitary problems.
- Name of association: Degetel
- Human resources: About ten volunteers
- Country: Moldova
- City: Ungheni (to the West of the country, Romanian frontier)
- Area of intervention: Support actions to people in difficulty
Mission and activities
Development of social deeds with the orphanage, the youth centre, the hospital, the schools and the primary health centres from the surrounding villages.
Types of structures which are put in place:
- An orphanage
- A youth centre
- Partnership with the hospital, the health centres and the schools in the vicinity.
Beneficiaries
- Mixed youth and adults, aged between 7 and 80 coming from disadvantaged environments.
Our partner
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports Degetel since its creation to help the populations in difficulty in Moldova.
Main common activities
Fulfilment on the field:
- International worksite in July 2008
- AESI in July 2010 (renovation of classrooms in a school)
- AESI in July 2011 (work on the site of a school: building of toilets, renovation of a class…)
Contact
Laura Hendricksen, Project manager
Embrace Cooperation (United Kingdom)
Embrace Cooperation welcomes, educates and trains children and adolescents from the streets in preparation for their socioprofessional reinsertion.
- Name of association: Embrace Cooperation
- Date of creation: 2000
- Status: Social Entrepreneurship, non-profit association
- Human resources: 10 full time employees and temporary workers
- Country: UK
- City: London and Burnley (Manchester)
- Area of intervention: Individualised support for young adults in great personal difficulty and at considerable risk of social exclusion.
Mission and activities
- Organise European projects for English youth in professional training (youth from disadvantaged quarters, the unemployed or those in social reintegration)
- Receive youth from partnership countries (available accommodation)
- Organise professional job placements
- Customized training “Life Dreams” through workshops to help young people and the unemployed (16-30 years old) to build a professional project according to a holistic model taking into account the totality of the individual (emotional, social or spiritual dimension).
- Training in collaboration with Germany in the solar and wind turbine industry (2 or 13 weeks)
- Social entrepreneurship: A start-up from the Embrace group which trains in and has work rendered in house/apartment management, renovation of apartments or houses/commercial property, renewable energy projects and training, practical workshops in environment conservation, on-the-job training in building for young adults.
Types of activities:
- Catering
- Carpentry
- Construction
- Arts/media
- Business and administration
- Environment and Tourism
- Health and treatment to newborn babies
- ICT (Information and Communication technologies) and computer science
- Sport and tourism
- Teacher training
- Community work
Beneficiaries
- Association specialised in professional training projects (job placement for young foreigners, mobility in Europe, young people in difficulty)
- Young people and adults (no age limit)
Our partnership
Apprentis d’Auteuil support Embrace Cooperation since 2011 in the personalised support of these children in great difficulties.
Main common activities
- Exchanges and projects
- Youth exchange in 2013 within the framework of the new project Leonardo "Apprentis Marmitons"
- Training of Professionals from Apprentis d’Auteuil
- Innovation transfer project around self-employment
Contact
Pauline Bozec, Project manager
Espace Jarrot (Republic of the Congo)
The Espace Jarrot conducts welcome, education and training actions for street children and adolescents in preparation for their socio-professional reinsertion.
- Name of association: Espace Jarrot (ASPC)
- Date of creation: 1998
- Status: Congregation Saint-Esprit
- Human resources: Eight employees and volunteers
- Country: Republic of the Congo
- City: Brazzaville
- Area of intervention: Support to street children
Mission and activities
Contribute to the reduction of the phenomena of children roaming the streets of Brazzaville.
Welcome centre/drop-in centre that welcomes about 50 children three times a week who benefit from:
- Water access for washing themselves or laundry
- Access to nursing care
- Access to socio-educational activities
- Access to meals and rest
- Family reunification from the streets
- Schooling and training of children and young people welcomed and reunified
- Support, follow-up and evaluation of their life projects
Types of structures which are set up:
- Centre for housing
- Welcome and drop-in centre
Beneficiaries
200 young people from 17-24 years old coming from great poverty and victims of exclusion.
Our partner from 1998
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports the Espace Jarrot from its creation in reinforcing the protection and support to street children.
Our principle common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Contact in the streets
- Day care
- Temporary accommodation
- Children and adolescent education
- Psychosocial support
- Social inquiries with a view for lasting reinsertion within the families
2. Technical support
- Reinforcement of competences (human, material, organisational…)
- Construction of an accommodation centre
- Organisation of training sessions for educators and social workers
- Improvement of reception and educational actions
- Institutional communication improvement of the association
- Operational support
3. Coproduction
- Creation of a training course: “street children” destined for educators
- Formulation and design of sessions by transnational teams
- Logistic organisation of sessions and selection of participants
- Production of common educational tools and common tools of awareness
- Support technically and methodologically the structuring of emerging networks or group
4. Educational Actions of International Solidarity
- Activities workshop
- International solidarity actions
Foyer de l'espérance (Cameroon)
The Foyer de l’Espérance is a group of initiatives which focus on social, economic and family reinsertion of children, adolescents and girls from the streets in Yaoundé.
- Name of association: Foyer de l'espérance
- Date of creation: 1997
- Status: Association Diocesan recognized by the Cameroon Government
- Human resources:13 people
- Country: Cameroon
- City: Yaoundé
- Area of intervention: education/formation and insertion/support to the street children
Mission and activities
Contribute to the social and family reinsertion of children, adolescents and girls from the streets in Yaoundé. The activities of "Foyer de l’Espérance", give children and young people from the streets the necessary tools to obtain their family and/or social reintroduction:
- Reception and support of children and young people from the streets
- Training for children and youth released from prison
- Support for imprisoned minors
- Support and job propositions for young girls
Types of structures which are set up:
- Two accommodation centres, Mvolié
- A drop-in centre for street children, Mvan
- A socio-educational centre in prison
- A centre for minors released from prison, Arche de Noé
Beneficiaries
1200 children and youth, ages 5-17, from the streets (children on the streets, minors released from prison, ill-treated children).
Our partner from 2002
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports the Foyer de l’Espérance since its creation on the issues relating to reinsertion of children and youth in Yaoundé.
Our principle common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Construction and fitting of an accommodation centre
- Reinforcement of educational and teaching material
- Support of educational activities and of family reinsertion
2. Technical support
- Support to reinforcement and training of educational teams assigned at the accommodation centre
- Support to the mediation activities and of family reinsertion
- Support for defending the rights of incarcerated minors
- Organisation of training sessions for educators and social workers working with street children
3. Coproduction
- Elaboration of a training course “children from the streets” for educators
- Exchanges on work practices with minors in a prison environment
4. Educational Actions of International Solidarity
- Activities workshop
- International solidarity actions
FQOCF (Canada)
The FQOCF supports parents and families to improve the parent-child relationship and help the young person to develop within a stable environment.
- Name of association: OFJ (Organismes Communautaires Familles)
- Date of creation: 1951
- Country: Canda
- Areas of Intervention: Support to parenting and advocacy
Mission and activities
To assemble and support the organismes communautaires Famille, while contributing to ensure the position of the family in Quebec society. The Fédération québécoise des organismes communautaires Famille (FQOCF) gathers these OCF and offers them resources and training for all their subjects:
- Enhancement of the parent-child relationship
- Support to the parental role, parent-adolescent relationship
- Family activities which boost all child development, etc.
The Fédération québécoise des organismes communautaires Famille (FQOCF) brings together almost 200 organismes communautaires Famille (OCF) present in all the regions of Quebec.
Beneficiaries
- 90, 000 families
Our partner from 2013
- 2013: Involvement in the target model "family house"
- 2013: Apprentis d’Auteuil and Al Karam (Morocco) participate in the National convention of the Organismes Communautaires Famille in Quebec
- 2014: Involvement in the international program "parenting support"
Contact
Christophe Beau, Project manager
Fundación Amigó (Spain)
Fundación Amigó is a non-governmental and non-profit organization founded by the religious order Amigonianos whose goal is protect, promote and train children, young people and families in difficulty, both in Spain and worldwide, through socio-educational and psycho-social intervention.
- Name of association: Fundación Amigó
- Date of creation: 1996
- Human resources: 226 employees in Spain, 25 in Ivory Coast and 5 in Poland
- Country: Spain, Ivory Coast and Poland.
- City: Headquarter in Madrid, Spain.
Areas of intervention:
- Socio-educational interventions
- International development cooperation
- Education for development
- Awareness-raising activities
- Vocational training
- Research
- Promotion of volunteers and promotion of cooperating workers.
The Foundation Amigó have a specific vocation and methodology in the education of children and young people in difficulty. Their missions and values are close to those of the Salesians (Don/Father Bosco) from Italy and of Apprentis d’Auteuil. The main features of the Amigonian pedagogical concept are the familial and personalized treatment of the youngsters as well as an integral, gradual, preventive and therapeutic approach. With more than 125 years of experience, the pedagogical approach has been constantly developed further and adapted to the new needs and challenges in the field of socio-educational interventions.
Mission and activities
Foundation Amigó in an NGO inspired by the work of Luis Amigó. It contributes to the social and individual processing of socially excluded and vulnerable people. It focuses mainly on children and the young people in difficulty, and on their families. Its action is based on the defense of human rights and the rights of children. It develops their work through socio-educational and psycho-social intervention. The main problems dealt with are: abandonment, social marginalization, exclusion, conflict with the law, crime, child-parent violence, different kinds of addictions, ill-treatment, low educational levels and poverty.
Types of programs:
- Residential care
- Facilities for young people in conflict with the law
- Day care facilities
- Sociocultural animation
- Therapy centers
- Assisted living programs
- Socio-labour integration
- Gender equality
- Emancipation
Beneficiaries (data December 2014)
- More than 10.000 children and young people in difficulty
- More than 850 families
- More than 250 young people and adults with addictions
- 90 women in specific project for woman’s empowerment
Our partner from 2003
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports the Foundation Amigó since 2003 in supporting and training children and youth with difficulties.
Main common activities
- A number of school and cultural exchanges since 2003.
- Training for educators and instructors.
- Partnership and in-depth study agreement of the cooperation around priority themes
Contact
Laura Hendricksen, Project manager
Gipsey Eye (Romania)
Gipsey Eye is a Romanian association of young volunteers who battle against all forms of discrimination suffered by the Romany population in Romania.
- Name of the association: The Gipsey Eye
- Status: Non-profit association
- Human resources: Three part-time employees and a number of volunteers
- Country: Romania
- Town: Sodomeni near Pascani
- Areas of Intervention: Fight against discrimination
Mission and activities
- To fight against all forms of discrimination suffered by the Romany population in Romania.
- Manage admission, education and training of children and adolescents from the streets with an eye to their socio-professional reinsertion.
Beneficiaries
- 9,000 young people in difficulty and isolated foreign minors
- 660 families
Our partner from 2013
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports Gipsey Eye since June 2013 in the battle against discrimination endured by the Romany population.
Contact
Laura Hendricksen, Project manager
H.A.R.D.I (Madagascar)
H.A.R.D.I contributes to the improvement of life conditions affecting children and young people from the streets by offering them stable, secure and promising surroundings.
- Name of association: H.A.R.D.I
- Date of creation: 1993
- Status: Association acting according to Madagascan law for International Solidarity
- Country: Madagascar
- City: Antananarivo/Tananarive
- Areas of intervention: Training and insertion
Mission and activities
Socially and economically, reinsert children and youth from the streets of Tananarive.
- Educational, health, food, social, learning and professional management adapted for children and youth from the streets
- Support in their economic insertion
- Support to impoverished families through their project of economic reinsertion.
Types of structures which are put in place:
- A welcome centre
- Classes
- Activity playroom
Beneficiaries
- 180 children and youth from the streets of Tananarive.
Our partner from 2002
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports H.A.R.D.I since its creation on the support and reinsertion of children and youth from the streets in Tananarive.
Principle common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Construction and fitting of an educational and social reinsertion centre
- Development of extra-curricular activities
- Launch of an employment office
2. Technical support:
- Skill enhancement (reception, education, training and economic insertion…)
- Implementation of advocacy actions
- Organisation of training sessions
3. Coproduction:
- Practical and knowledge exchanges in the school and/or educational domain
- Organisation/participation at seminars and/or training sessions…
4. Educational Action of International Solidarity:
- Activity site
- International actions of solidarity
Contact
Caroline Vignon, Project manager
La Maison du Rugby (Senegal)
The Maison du Rugby is a welcoming environment predominantly for impoverished youth between the ages of 7-17 which offer extra-curricular activities.
- Name of association: La Maison du Rugby (MDR)
- Date of creation: March 17, 2010
- Status: Association Senegalese
- Human resources: Seven people
- Country: Senegal
- City: Yoff
- Areas of Intervention: Education
Mission and activities
Participate in the education, training and professional insertion of young people in precarious situations via the values and practice of rugby. Let the children grow by giving them an environment of educational and fun activities such as, pottery, information technology, theatre, music and private tutoring.
Main activities
- Transmit the values of rugby to the young members: respect the rules, the opponents and referees, a taste for collective effort, solidarity with partners and a sense of friendship
- Teach future players the rules of rugby
- Make the MDR a rugby resource centre: view matches, access to documentation, training centre
- Introduce MDR members to the practice of the sport via training (nearby stadiums and play areas)
Types of structures which are set up
- A field
- Reception area
- Room for activities
Beneficiaries
- 211 youth enrolled regularly in the activities organised by the MDR
- 24 young people in insertion
Our partner from 2006
For a number of years, the Maison du Rugby and Apprentis d’Auteuil work together on the education issues of young people and training of supervisors.
Principal common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field
- Development of prevention, education and activity missions through sport
- Organisation of cultural, discovery and tutoring activities
- Establishing sanitary and health activities
2. Technical support
- Improvement of socio-professional insertion measures
Les Soeurs du Bon Pasteur (Lebanon)
The Soeurs du Bon Pasteur welcome and assist women and children from disadvantaged environments, who are suffering from moral, physical and psychological abuse and in a situation of great instability.
- Name of association: Sœurs du Bon Pasteur
- Date of creation: 1893 in Lebanon
- Status: Catholic Congregation, recognised by the Ministry of Social Affairs
- Human resources: 25 employees / 20 volunteers
- Country: Lebanon
- City: Beirut
- Areas of Intervention: Education / Family support
Mission and activities
Protection of youth and female development in supporting above all victims of violence, injustice and abuse.
The main activities conducted in the social centre in favour of children and youth are:
- Welcoming and orientation, monitoring within an institutional environment
- Legal, family and social follow-up
- Tutoring
- Computer and foreign language training for women and youth
- Socio-educational and teaching activities
Psychological, medical and social support and care for children victims of physical and sexual violence and their families. The centre also welcomes mothers and proposes training to them and assist them in their educational role: creation of a section “L’Espace Famille” with the establishment of talking groups, discovery activities for very young children and joint parent/child excursions.
The other activities developed within the different structures are:
- Medical treatment
- Welcoming and support to young girls in situations at risk
- Reception and support to reinsert women and their children victims of violence and ill-treatment
- Technical training, primary and secondary schooling
Types of structures which are set up
In the Roueisset-Jdeid quarter:
- Social centre of the Sœurs du Bon Pasteur
- Health clinic
In the quarter of Séhailé:
- The accommodation centre for young girls.
In the quarter Ain Saadé:
- The accommodation residence for women and their children.
Beneficiaries
- 300 children from the ages of 2-14 years old from the locality Roueisset
- 250 families at risk
- 50 young girls (minors) and their single mothers
Our partner from 2008
For six years, Apprentis d’Auteuil accompanies the Soeurs du Bon Pasteur and their teams with regard to teaching and educational training, organisation of activities and parental support.
Principle common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field
- Implementation of awareness programs and prevention of conflicts
- Creation of computer training for young people and women
- Creation of a course: “foreign languages” for youth and women
- Creation of an area for families aimed at women but also fathers in the neighbourhood and their children
- Management of young girls, mothers and their children in circumstances of great vulnerability.
2. Technical support
- Training educational teams from the accommodation centre for young girls
- Practices and knowledge exchanges in the field of administration management, at the educational level and parental support
3. AESI
- Activity site
Contact
Sabine Mengue Riviere, Project manager
L'Heure Joyeuse (Morocco)
L’Heure Joyeuse develop concrete and lasting solutions, based on innovating approaches in three main domains: health, education, and socio-professional insertion.
- Name of association: L’Heure Joyeuse
- Date of creation: 1959
- Status: Association recognised as promoting the public interest
- Human resources: 36 employees / 30 volunteers
- Country: Morocco
- City: Casablanca
- Areas of intervention: Training and insertion / education / support to families
Mission and activities
To ensure educational, teaching and school support, adapted to the needs of children and young people in precarious situations.
- The health hub looks to meet at best the medical needs of babies suffering from malnutrition and the beneficiaries of the association
- The education hub looks to guarantee educational, teaching and school support meeting the needs of children in precarious situations (whether they attend school or not)
- The training/professional insertion hub focuses on facilitating the insertion of young people through adapted training and support.
Types of structures which are put in place
A multipurpose centre for children and families in Casablanca which propose the following activities:
- Service for malnourished babies, awareness for parents
- Social assistance for families
- Multi-social kindergarten
- Youth section for youth in precarious situations: street children/day care
- Non-formal education
- Orientation and professional insertion committee (COIP)
- Support to associations in the country environment
- National solidarity operations: distribution of school materials, school bag operation, bicycle etc.
- A training centre for apprenticeship (CFA) Ironworks, Chouhada
- A socio-educational and cultural centre of Sidi Maarouf in partnership with the association Bayti (language learning and information technology lessons)
Beneficiaries
- 330 infants between 0-6 months and their mothers
- 66 young people aged between 7-18
- 600 youth in learning situation (languages and computers)
- 100 young people in training via apprenticeship
- 650 young people who benefit from support within the COIP
- "Relay" partners: 80 associations from the rural world and 50 colleges in 14 regions since 2007
Our partner from 2004
For many years, L’Heure Joyeuse and Apprentis d’Auteuil work together to find orientation, training and insertion pathways best suited to a public in great instability.
Main activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Advocacy aimed for active players from the public, social and private arenas in favour of childhood in difficulty within the framework of a consortium of associations
- The opening of a training centre via apprenticeship (CFA) in ironworks
Implementation of an orientation and professional insertion committee destined for youth in difficulty.
2. Technical support:
- Study of a project, Social Company of Insertion
- Continued training for teaching and educational professionals
- Development of training and personalised insertion pathways
3. Coproduction:
- Joint hosting and co-organisation of training “children from the streets” for educators
- Guide to orientation and professional insertion support of children in difficulty
- Co-hosting of a training session “insertion of young people in difficulty” in Congo (Program jointly organised Pluri-Acteurs Congo).
4. Educational action of international solidarity
- Activity site (CPF)
- International actions of solidarity
Contact
Sabine Mengue Riviere, Project manager
Life project 4 youth foundation (Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam)
LP4Y seeks to identify situations of great distress for young people offering support to allow them to become autonomous, independent and becoming themselves, major players in development.
- Name of association: Life Project 4 Youth (LP4Y)
- Date of creation: 2009
- Status: French association recognized as promoting the public interest
- Human resources: Teams of unpaid workers and volunteers (VSI)
- Country: Philippines/Vietnam/Indonesia
- City: Manila/Ho Chi Minh City/Jakarta
- Areas of intervention: Training and insertion
Mission and activities
Support and insert professionally and socially children in unstable situations and hit by exclusion. LP4Y has developed seven “Life Project Centres” in the Philippines, in Indonesia and Vietnam, each one is composed of one or two programs aimed for young people who do not go to school, young mothers, deaf children and families which have been displaced.
These centres permit:
- Welcoming young people between 17 to 24 years of age
- Support throughout their path to insertion organised in four steps for a duration of 12-18 months: Autonomy, responsibility, management, entrepreneurship
- Support until the creation of their own entrepreneurial initiative within incubators of entrepreneurial projects: integration in business, study continuation, creation of an economic activity etc.
Beneficiaries
- 200 young people from 17-24 years old coming from great poverty and victims of exclusion.
Our partner from 2013
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports LP4Y on the themes of support and insertion of young people coming from great poverty and victims of exclusion.
Our principle common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Develop a community relationship for young people in their first job
2. Technical support
- Professional support: coaching, conferences, refresher course and personal accounts
- Social support adapted to the demands of first employment and community activities
- Advocacy actions to support the "case" of young people in great poverty
3. Educational Actions of International Solidarity
- AESI project in 2015 on the Green Village of Calauan
- Project site "eco-construction" in Gohelle
Contact
Nadine Aguilar, Project manager
Luovi (Finland)
Luovi offers training for young people and adults in great difficulty. Convinced that each individual is special and deserves equal rights and equal opportunity in society, Luovi aims for excellence in education and learning.
- Name of Association: Luovi
- Status: Specialised school
- Human resources: 800 employees
- Country: Finland
- City: Oulu
- Areas of Intervention: Professional training exclusively for young people in social difficulty or with a handicap and adults
Mission and activities
Train and insert youth in difficulty. The range of special needs is vast and a customised teaching plan (PEI) is formulated for each student in order to meet their particular individual needs. The range of educational needs specific to Luovi comprises both the preparation/ re-adaptation training and the professional training. The goal is to not only provide a suitable education for each individual, but also provide all learners with the skills they need for the future.
Four training categories
- Culture: Audiovisual communication, graphic arts
- Natural Science: Information and Affairs
- Natural resources and environment: Horticulture, agriculture
- Tourism and catering: Cooking, services, catering
Beneficiaries
- 2 000 Young people in difficulty are those that stand to benefit from Luovi’s action
Our partner from 2002
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports LUOVI to help train this youth in difficulty.
Main common activities
- Welcoming Finnish partners since 2010
- Signature of a partnership agreement the 13th of February 2014
Contact
Pauline Bozec, Project manager
N.R.J.(Madagascar)
N.R.J welcomes children and young people from shattered circumstances while mobilising their know-how.
- Name of association: N.R.J (Nouveau Relais des Jeunes)
- Date of creation: 1987
- Status: Congregation of Saint Esprit
- Human Resources: 10 people
- Country: Madagascar
- City: Antananarivo/Tananarive
- Areas of Intervention: Training and Insertion
Mission and activities
Welcome, educate, train and insert impoverished children and young people from the streets of Tananarive. N.R.J proposes to children and young people from broken-down circumstances:
- Day activities
- Night accommodation
- Training (carpentry, pottery, building work)
- Monitoring and support
Types of structures which are put in place:
- An accommodation residence
- Accommodation with 24-hour reception
- Workshops on training (carpentry, building work, pottery)
- An educational farm
Beneficiaries
- 120-130 children and young people from the streets
- 40 being housed
Our partner from 1994
Apprentis d’Auteuil stands by N.R.J in its support favouring youth in shattered circumstances in Tananarive.
Principal Common Activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Construction and fitting of an educational and social reinsertion centre
- Development of the project: night accommodation
2. Technical support:
- Search for sponsors for professional training
- Consideration to the creation of an insertion business
- Development of the night accommodation project
- Institutional and learning support
- Implementation of advocacy actions
3. Coproduction:
- Formulation of a training course “Children and the street situation” destined for educators
- Exchanges within the field of audio-visual careers
- Formulation and design of sessions by the transnational teams
- Logistic organisation of sessions and selection of participants
- Production of common learning tools and common tools of awareness
- Technical and methodological support for the structuring of emerging networks and groups
4. Educational Action of International Solidarity:
- Activity site
- International actions of solidarity
Contact
Caroline Vignon, Project manager
Qosko-Maki (Peru)
Qosko-Maki’s objective is to support street children and adolescents in Cuzco in order to exercise their fundamental rights.
- Name of association: Qosko-Maki
- Date of creation: 1990
- Status: Non-profit organisation
- Human resources: six associates, four educators, 3 volunteers, one temporary worker
- Country: Peru
- City: Cuzco
- Areas of intervention: Support of street children
Mission and activities
To ensure the protection, education, and training of street children in the streets of Cuzco so they can become autonomous and responsible adults.
- Activities created like free education sites with a large place given to joint management between users and educators
- Contact and support of street children in order to establish a relationship of trust and provide for emergencies
- Reception, accommodation and training within the centres of Qosqo Maki
Support of the necessary approaches for the exercise of their rights (work, family, school, health, identity documents, legal problems and other)
Types of structures which are set up:
- A dormitory
- A library
- A self-financing microenterprise which group together two training workshops in carpentry and bakery.
Beneficiaries
- 300 children and adolescents from the street aged less than 18 years old
Our partner from 2014
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Cooperation in the domain of education for youth in difficulty, professional training included
- Financial support for protection and support activities to children and adolescents (reception, accommodation, education and training)
2. Technical support:
- Formulation of a survey aimed for young people in order to redesign the strategy of intervention
- Advocacy actions with public authorities to support the exercise of young people’s fundamental rights
3. Coproduction:
- Exchanges at the level of training educators
4. Educational actions of international solidarity:
- Caux meeting
REEJER (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
The REEJER is a Congolese association which coordinates more than 164 structures with the common goal to develop an appropriate support system to children from the streets in Kinshasa.
- Name of association: REEJER
- Date of creation: 2002
- Status: ASBL
- Human resources:15 permanent and temporary staff
- Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
- City: Kinshasa
- Area of intervention: support to the street children
Mission and activities
- Reinforcement of the competences of the social participants in order to improve the quality of services in reception and support
- Awareness and rallying of the communities and authorities
- Publication and distribution of information
The REEJER mainly carries out the following activities:
- Training sessions for educators
- Awareness and prevention campaigns for the population on the phenomena of children on the streets
- Monthly organisation of exchanges, experiences and methods used between associations working in favour of young people from the streets of Kinshasa
to take advantage of good practices and reinforcement of the local player’s skills. - Lobbying with public authorities
- Organization of events for street children
- The collection of information and management of a database
Beneficiaries
- Children and youth from the street aged 0-25 years of age.
- Educators, contact personnel and social workers
- 164 associative structures
Our partner from 2002
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports the REEJER since its creation on the issues faced by street children.
Our principle common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Organisation of quarterly exchanges and training sessions (variety of themes: job of educator, strategies…)
- Support to awareness of public authorities, revival churches and the entire population for the protection of children’s rights.
- Support to the implementation of advocacy actions (organisation of awareness campaigns and events and lobbying around important dates: June 16, Day of the African Child, November 20, Universal Children’s Day)
- Creation of new measures of communication and awareness: brochures, newspaper, films
- Training sessions with associations that are members of the REEJER
2. Technical support
- Reinforcement of coordination (human, material)
- Missions of expertise in the following domains: organisational, administrative and accounting
- Management support for the executive committee
- Organisational support of the REEJER
3. Coproduction
- Creation of a training course: "children from the street" destined for educators
- Formulation and design of sessions by transnational teams
- Logistic organisation of sessions and selection of participants.
- Production of common educational tools and common tools of awareness
- Support technically and methodologically the structuring of emerging networks or groups
4. Educational Actions of International Solidarity
- Exchange and training sessions organized together
Contact
Ségolène Penot, Project manager
The Smile of the Child (Greece)
The Smile of a Child carries out measures of protection and support to children in difficulty in Greece. The main mission of the association is the battle against daily problems encountered by the children. The organisation defends the rights of children by providing them with a 24/7 service each week, 365 days per year. The Smile of a Child cooperates closely with State authorities (police, Office of the Public Prosecutor, hospitals etc.)
- Name of association: The Smile of the Child (Partner Eurochild)
- Status: NGO
- Human Resources: 320 employees, 1800 volunteers
- Country: Greece
- City: Athens
- Areas of Intervention: Protection, psychological and physical support of children in danger in Greece
Mission and activities
- To be the main reference point for all children, parents and social workers in order to respond to the problems of children in danger.
- Avoid the "institutionalisation" of services and reintegrate children in their families and in the society.
Main activities
1. Child Protection
- Emergency intervention when a child is in danger
- National centre for children victims of abuse, violence, exploitation and trafficking
- National Centre for missing children and victims of trafficking
- 11 children’s houses in Greece (Community Homes) including five in Athens, amongst these houses, three are day centres for children and their families (material, economic, psychological and educational support).
2. Health and prevention
- Mobile health units and private ambulances for transporting sick children, prevention and medical services.
- Prevention and informative programs for children, parents and teachers
- Counselling (psychosocial orientation method) for children and their families.
Beneficiaries
- 287 children from 0-25 years of age placed in the five children’s houses
- 1 745 families
Our partner from 2013
Apprentis d’Auteuil supports The Smile of the Child since June 2013. The association belongs to the European network for the protection of children’s rights “Eurochild” and it is very active within the international network. The partnership with Apprentis d’Auteuil relates to welcome, education and support activities to families.
Contact
Laura Hendricksen, Project manager
Taab-Yînga (Burkina Faso)
Taab-Yînga helps young boys and girls from the streets of Ouagadougou to return to their families and to find their place in today’s society.
- Name of association: Taab-Yînga
- Date of creation: 1998
- Status: Association recognised as promoting the public interest
- Human resources: 12 people
- Country: Burkina Faso
- City: Ouagadougou
- Areas of Intervention: Training and Insertion
Mission and activities
Caring for young people from the streets.
Main activities
Educational support with an emphasis on:
- Learning the rules of life and of hygiene
- Self-fulfilment
- Assistance with family relationships.
A reconciliation between the young person, school and the professional environment thanks to:
- A period of literacy and learning
- And/or schooling in external schools
- And/or an orientation or insertion of the youth in pre-learning workshops (sewing, metalwork or carpentry…)
Types of structures which are set up:
- A day centre composed of training and education premises
- An accommodation centre
Beneficiaries
- 31 young people from the street and youth in great difficulty
- The children’s families
Our partner from 2006
For a number of years, Taab-Yînga and Apprentis d’Auteuil work together on the concerns touching training and professional insertion in Burkina Faso.
Principal common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field
- Creation of a new training sector for training within the Taab-Yînga centre
- Study to create a commercial activity
2. Technical support
- Development of self-financing skills as well as reception skills at the Taab-Yînga centre
- Organisational and institutional support
3. Coproduction
- Elaboration of a training course, "children and the street situation" aimed for educators
4. Educational action of International Solidarity
- Activity site
- International actions of solidarity
Tahaddi (Lebanon)
The association Tahaddi develops educational, medical and social strategies within the shantytowns of Hay el Gharbeh in Beirut.
- Name of association: Tahaddi
- Date of creation: 1996
- Status: Association non-profit under the law of 1901
- Human resources: 30 employees
- Country: Lebanon
- City: Beirut
- Areas of intervention: Education / Family support
Mission and activities
Permits the access to health, education and schooling for children excluded from the institutional system.
The educational centre Tahaddi:
- Welcomes children from the neighbourhood that do not attend school for school-like training but adapted to the learning and specific educational needs of children
- Tutoring and literacy activities for children and adults from the neighbourhood
Educational psychology based activities - Social service for professional orientation, training placement and monitoring of the children from the centre
- Summer camp for children and youth
The medico-social centre with a clinic offers the following treatment:
- Consultations in general medicine
- Medicine
- Laboratory exams
- Practical and financial hospital assistance (orthopaedic, cardiac interventions…)
- Awareness sessions in hygiene, health, education for young mothers
- Moral and spiritual support during weekly visits in a female prison
- Material support for women if need be: clothing, hygiene products, medicine etc.
Types of structures that are put in place:
- One educational centre
- One health clinic
Beneficiaries
- 130 children excluded from the school system (from 8-14) from Dom, Lebanese and Syrian families
- 20-25 children regularly reinserted in the public school system
- 12 children aged between three and five
- About 55 adults of which women
- 70 families
Our partner from 2008
For six years, Apprentis d’Auteuil supports Tahaddi in the development of its medical and educational centres aimed at the most disadvantaged populations in Beirut.
Principal common activities
1. Fulfilment on the field:
- Construction of a new floor on the existing building
- The implementation of a medico-social centre
- Implementation of an educational centre
- Reinforcement of the medical and educational program in favour of the shantytown population
- Creation of a literacy course in Arabic and English, and of computers for adults
- Creation of a preschool program – classes for children between the ages of three and five
- Implementation of courses and conferences for parents on different themes such as, education, hygiene, environment etc.
- Funding the recruitment of three new teachers
- Funding for training in teaching for the entire team (15 people).
2. Technical support:
- Teaching and educational training directed at teachers on the differentiated teaching skills
- Support for administrative management and computers
- Practical and knowledge exchanges in the educational domain
Contact
Sabine Mengue Riviere, Project manager