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Espérance banlieues
A network of schools for equal opportunities
EducationÎle-de-France
With 24 €,
Espérance banlieues finances:
1 day(s) of schooling for a student
26,415 €40,000 €
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Challenge
80,000 young people leave the French school system without qualifications. 50% of 3rd graders don't pass the written brevet exam in priority education networks. Heritage attendance is increasingly linked to social background, and fewer than one in two 15-year-olds have visited a cultural venue. More than 40% of young people in these 1,500 priority neighborhoods are unemployed.
This unfair situation generates tension and conflict. For this reason, Espérance banlieues pays particular attention to each child so that they can discover their talents and then develop them within French society.
This unfair situation generates tension and conflict. For this reason, Espérance banlieues pays particular attention to each child so that they can discover their talents and then develop them within French society.
Solution
A complementary player to the French national education system, Espérance banlieues responds to a challenge of educational and cultural equity. The association works to prevent school dropout from an early age. It passes on to children in the suburbs quality teaching and education, to which only the most privileged have access today.
Espérance banlieues acts to encourage the successful integration of young people and their families into French society. The schools in the network are convinced that getting to know and love a country is a prerequisite for building its future together. They help young people to grow up to become free and responsible citizens, able to commit themselves with pride to building their future and that of their country. By financing a new class, you are helping Espérance banlieues to perpetuate its action.
Recent result
Espérance banlieues demonstrates that, on a local scale, it reduces these educational and cultural inequalities. By the end of CP, 98% of pupils in the network's schools have a satisfactory command of reading words aloud. In priority education networks (REP), this average is 60%, and on a national scale, taking all educational sectors together, it is 68%. What's more, 97% of parents recommend their child's school.
The money will be used for
Espérance banlieues calls for a collective mobilization to combat these disparities, and is particularly aimed at companies wishing to respond to the educational challenge of these neighborhoods. 17 schools have already been created, in or near priority urban policy neighborhoods.
Goal
Financing a class means giving 15 students the tools they need to fully integrate into society as free, responsible citizens, able to commit themselves with pride to building their future.
9 rue des Grands Champs , 75011 Paris, France
Every child is a promise
Espérance banlieues is developing a network of innovative schools throughout France in the heart of priority urban neighborhoods to reduce social inequalities and school dropout.
Espérance banlieues meets a dual challenge of educational and cultural equity: preventing students from dropping out of school at an early age; helping them to grow up as free and responsible citizens within French society.
Espérance banlieues is 10 years old and has 17 schools, 93 classes, 140 teachers and directors.
Our former students testify!
What happens to students who have passed through Espérance banlieues schools?
The question is often asked. Three 2023 bacheliers who passed through the benches of one of the 17 schools in the Espérance banlieues network tell us!"
➡ Maëlly from Espérance banlieues, Cours Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Asnières, is studying at Sorbonne Université and dreams of becoming an engineer in forensics.
➡ Tony and Aboubakar, very chummy in life, from Cours La Cordée - Espérance Banlieues in Roubaix have chosen to follow courses in project management and event management.
Video just below!
Visit by Espérance banlieues students to the Hôtel Matignon
Friday September 29, 2023, Elisabeth Borne received in her office the 4th and 3rd grade students from the Espérance banlieues school in Argenteuil who were visiting the Hôtel Matignon as part of their school program. Madame Prime Minister spontaneously took part in a question-and-answer session with the curious and attentive children. A very warm and informal moment of exchange.
This visit to Matignon will remain engraved in the memories of our students, who came away with renewed motivation and a better understanding of the importance of civic and political commitment.
How can we calm the violence experienced in certain priority neighborhoods?
How can we respond to the educational emergency in fractured and isolated territories? Is it possible to reconcile, to remake society?
Publication of the Tribune: the educational response provided by Espérance banlieues!
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It's back to school time!
This context, which is favorable to innovative initiatives such as Espérance banlieues, is a reminder of our commitment to the students and families who have chosen to place their trust in us. By continuing our active mobilization in the field with our teachers and principals, it is the real impact of your support that we wish to highlight.
Last year, 100% of our 3rd graders passed their brevet, when the national average for schools in priority neighborhoods is only 50%; for this new school year, the schools will be welcoming 6 new classesincluding two classes for middle school students, and around a hundred additional students; this summer, our teachers attended 2 weeks of training that really respond to this urgent need to train educators. Thus, through our action and the results that flow from it, we confirm the necessity, the very urgency, of supporting and developing impact projects that enable an innovative reform of education in France.
From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for the support you give us, and hope that our action assures you of the usefulness and impact of your donation!!
Very happy back-to-school to you all!!
Our students have talent!
On the occasion of the association's 10th anniversary, 122 students were on stage for the performance of the Musical Comedy "Dans tes rêves"! The curtain opened on the children's choir, who took the audience on a journey through the Paris of yesterday and today, through an anthology of French songs. An unforgettable highlight that allowed everyone to discover their talents, to measure the sense of effort, the strength of the collective, the finesse and precision of the performance, to offer a show of great quality, staged as part of the association's 10th anniversary. Performing arts have been at the heart of the school's pedagogy for several years, so that the personalities and self-confidence of each student can blossom to the full!"
To mark the 80th anniversary of Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, written in April 1943 in New York, our schools organized a major writing competition with the Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry Foundation. Over 600 Espérance banlieues students worked on the idea of an eighth planet that had slipped into history. Writer Michel Bussi, president of the jury, presented the writing prize to 6 of our students at the Editions Gallimard offices!
To mark the 80th anniversary of Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, written in April 1943 in New York, our schools organized a major writing competition with the Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry Foundation. Over 600 Espérance banlieues students worked on the idea of an eighth planet that had slipped into history. Writer Michel Bussi, president of the jury, presented the writing prize to 6 of our students at the Editions Gallimard offices!
Espérance banlieues studentsThank you for your support!
Thanks to your support, the Espérance banlieues network is welcoming over 1,000 students this year to its 17 schools from Marseille to Roubaix. An 18th school will open next September in Bordeaux. Each of the network's schools is rooted in its local area, and its mission is to provide a concrete and innovative response to educational inequalities, illiteracy and school dropout, and to contribute to the integration of young people from sensitive neighborhoods.
In the implementation of its educational project, Espérance banlieues claims a singularity: combining, day after day, within a genuine community of adults and children, French teaching, education and attachment to culture. It is the coherence of actions under these three pillars that comes to provide children with the energy, serenity and security necessary for their growth. The school's director is the guarantor of this coherence, a trademark at the heart of the Espérance banlieues project.
In the implementation of its educational project, Espérance banlieues claims a singularity: combining, day after day, within a genuine community of adults and children, French teaching, education and attachment to culture. It is the coherence of actions under these three pillars that comes to provide children with the energy, serenity and security necessary for their growth. The school's director is the guarantor of this coherence, a trademark at the heart of the Espérance banlieues project.
Espérance banlieues scrupulously applies the National Education programs, through a pragmatic pedagogy, based on experience and experimentation. The pedagogical experience is inspired by the great names in education who have devoted themselves first and foremost to disadvantaged children, such as Don Bosco, Maria Montessori and Pierre Faure. This year, Espérance banlieues celebrated its tenth anniversary! To mark the occasion, numerous events are being organized in each of our 17 schools, and you're all welcome to come and meet our students!