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Volunteering programmes and types of mission

Volunteering programmes

  • French Service Civique
  • International Service Civique
  • The European Solidarity Corps -ex EVS (France > Abroad)
  • The European Solidarity Corps -ex EVS (European > France)
  • The Internationaler Jugendfreiwilligendienst (IJFD)

Please note, each of these programmes can only be completed once.

Types of mission

Leisure and culture

Programme de volontariat
  • Volunteering programme. Maintenance and restoration of historic sites
  • Help to create communications for museums and guided tours both nationally and internationally
  • Help with cultural projects, including broadcasts promoting cultural diversity on local and community radio stations
  • Help with cultural projects and with the promotion of cultural media (books, cinema, music, theatre, etc.)
  • Facilitate social and cultural events for students living in halls

Education for all

  • Facilitate multi-sensory and/or recreational and social activities for disabled young people
  • Support informal schooling for children in disadvantaged areas
  • Promote access to cultural activities for struggling young people
  • Help set up and run sociocultural activities in children’s social care homes
  • Facilitate cultural and civil workshops, as well as educational projects
Mission éducation pour tous

Environmental

Mission environnement
  • Environmental missions: Help to maintain green spaces and protected ecological areas
  • Run information and outreach activities for the general public on historic and protected sites
  • Monitor protected or tagged animals with associations for the protection of endangered species
  • Awareness-raising activities in schools on environmental issues

Emergency response

  • Help spread public safety knowledge
  • Take part in security awareness-raising for various audiences
  • Support security operations in the event of natural disasters (flooding etc.)
  • Help accommodate and support people leaving damaged areas.
Mission intervention d'urgence

Health

  • Awareness raising and risk prevention in schools on issues such as nutrition, addiction, sexuality etc.
  • Educational activities with students, events-based awareness raising
  • Support vulnerable people in their healthcare journeys
  • Build relationships with the elderly in retirement homes and help them to keep their autonomy in their everyday lives (with dressing, eating, tidying etc.)
  • Build relationships with the sick people, at home or in care homes, and their families
Mission santé

Solidarity

– With the elderly

  • Help to set up and run socio-cultural activities in retirement homes, including communal activities such as pottery, painting, baking, bingo, physiotherapy, memory workshop, parties etc.
  • Raise awareness about, promote and help out in meeting and training centres

– With people with disabilities

  • Supervise and help run activities for people with disabilities in specialised care homes
  • Provide mobility assistance for young people with disabilities
  • Accompany individual or group walks, shopping or leisure activities

– Socially disadvantaged people

  • Welcoming, listening to and sharing with socially disadvantaged people
  • Welcome, accompany and assist refugees with various procedures
  • Support and accompany socially disadvantaged people in emergency accommodation centres or in assistance centres
  • Participate in solidarity actions such as food and clothing banks in associations and assistance centres
  • Introducing and facilitating workshops and events, taking part in awareness-raising sessions on citizenship, children’s rights, nature and the environment in student unions halls of residence
Mission solidarité

Sports

  • Help to organise activity days for schoolchildren, young sportsmen and women on the theme of sports health (injury/disease prevention, healthy lifestyles etc.)
  • Develop sports activities in isolated areas
  • Support people without access to sport for physical or social reasons: the elderly, vulnerable or disabled children and adults
Mission sport

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