Creation of an office equipment workshop for disadvantaged young people in Paris, France

The Air Liquide Foundation is providing its support for setting up a new workshop to train young people seeking social insertion in Paris in the use of office equipment.

COROT Entraide Logo Since 1973, the Centre Corot Entraide d’Auteuil, in Paris, has been supporting people who are excluded from society and live very precariously. It has accomplished this especially through material aid: a food bank, coat room, housing… The association, which is eager to recreate trust and a social link, welcomes and accompanies about 60 young people from 18 to 25 who are homeless and wish to be socially reinserted.

Many obstacles hinder the social progress of these young adults living in Paris: no structuring framework, little information about how to obtain a driver’s license, a lack of training in office equipment…

That is why, in 2010, Centre Corot Entraide decided to create a new workshop whose aim is to train young people in office equipment and to initiate them into the highway code, the first step in getting a driver’s license.

For the Centre Corot Entraide, teaching these young people to autonomously carry out administrative procedures and guiding them in their research are essential steps toward insertion.

A word from the sponsor:
Sophie Duboudin, Environment Manager, Air Liquide Groupe: "“The project is particularly solid and is really moving ahead. Considering the importance of the Internet in everyday life nowadays, and in particular in job-hunting, I believe the project’s objective seems perfectly adapted to today’s demands.”

Beneficiaries: 220 homeless young people from 18 to 24 years old