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| Sport in Towns [Sport dans la Ville]: Sport and under-privileged young people
The aim of the Sport in Towns association is to encourage the social and working integration of young people, by setting up sports centres in the heart of sensitive suburbs. Every week 16 sites enable 1800 young people, from 7 to 20 years old, to play football, basketball and rugby, free. In order to take an active role in the personal development of each child, Sport in Towns has created holiday camps and an international exchange programme (United States, Brazil, India).
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| In order to each young person to find a way into work, Sport in towns has also created the "JOB in Towns" programme, intended to promote training and getting young people into work and the business creation aid programme "Entrepreneurs in Towns", which has enabled the creation of 20 businesses in two years.
The Lafuma Group Foundation has chosen to support Sport in Towns in order to extend the existing historic partnership with the Lafuma Group since the birth of the association 10 years ago; Sport in Towns has today become the leading integration association using Sport in France.
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| "Via the Mountains [En Passant par la Montagne]": Mountains for everyone:
The Via the Mountains association was created in 1995 and acts as an interface between the mountain environment and social work. In 2008 about thirty educational projects were conducted in the mountains by using mountain values (surpassing yourself, trust in yourself and others, following the rules, etc.) as an integration lever for people in difficulty. |
Discovering the environment and becoming aware of your surroundings are powerful aspects of these projects. For two years the association has taken part in cleaning the Glacier organised by the Lafuma Group and its partners' network; every time there are rich human experiences for everyone and the opportunity to meet different people involved in the mountains.
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