Entrepreneurs for future generations
Support children in difficulty or at risk
Giving everyone the keys to build their own story, at any age, has always been a key concern of ours. To support children at risk or in difficulty, Groupe SOS works through child welfare, sponsorship and educational programmes.
Because it is vital to enable young people, whatever their background or challenges, to find their place in society.
Our actions
Child welfare
We provide a wide range of innovative ways of helping, supporting and caring for children, teenagers and young adults with various difficulties. We place education at the heart of our practices. We work with parents, helping them to develop their parenting skills and providing them with support, as well as with children, through educational programmes backed up by psychological support and access to healthcare, rights, school, employment and culture.
Mentoring and educational initiatives
Social isolation and inequality affect too many young people. To address this, neighbourhood sponsorship and education through sports are a powerful means of risk prevention for vulnerable children and young people. We advocate cultural and educational openness based on mutual enrichment, to ensure genuine integration and encourage the rebuilding of social bonds. As a result, risky behaviours are reduced and learning how to live within society is made easier. Our programmes also provide genuine parenthood support.
Youth in conflict with the law
Our conviction: no one is born a delinquent or remains a delinquent, provided they grow up in the proper environment. Our mission: to reconcile sanction and education. We offer a range of diversified and innovative responses to criminal offences. They are adapted to the behavioural difficulties of the youths we take in, whose trajectories are marked by failures, breakdowns and acts of violence. The aim of all our actions is to prevent and limit the detention of minors and to help them integrate and find their place within society.
Facilities and non-profit organisations
Groupe SOS Jeunesse
Groupe SOS Jeunesse is the leading French player in child protection and works to guarantee equal opportunities for all children by providing care for children, teenagers, young adults and their families in difficult social situations.
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AAPEJ
The A.A.P.E.J., created in 1936 on the island of La Réunion, takes care of children, teenagers and young adults, as well as anyone in a challenging social situation, in order to integrate them socially, with the help of public authorities.
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Aide aux mères et aux familles à domicile
The AMFD was created in 1946 and helps families and single parents with children resolve their temporary difficulties or recover their life-balance.
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Handisup
Created in 1989, Handisup works to help young people with disabilities from kindergarten to their first job, in their access to education and then for work integration.
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Mlezi Maoré
Mlezi Maore is a major player in Mayotte’s NPO sector and is currently active in the social, medical-social and social economy fields (over 50 facilities and services).
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Parrains par Mille
Parrains Par Mille is a French mentoring association for children and young adults in difficulty. Volunteers share time and activities with their sponsored youth and support them in their journey.
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Play International
Play International is an international solidarity organisation that co-constructs educational programs using sport and play as pedagogical tools for children and young people at risk.
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Point Sud
Based in Marseille, the organisation uses sport to meet the challenges of social cohesion and the empowerment of the most vulnerable.
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Map of our facilities and organisations
