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Fratries
Coliving spaces for young people with and without disabilities
DiversityHandicapBretagne
With 80 €,
Fratries finances:
1 furniture to furnish the 30 m² living room where you can spend quality time together
4,727 €20,000 €
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Challenge
1 in 2 young working people are ready to join a coliving. This flexible, serviced, shared housing solution in the heart of the city is growing fast because it meets the challenges and expectations of young working people: to live in the heart of the city and no longer be alone.
This expectation is also shared by young people with disabilities! Yet, to date, too few living spaces are designed so that they can take off without living solely among people with disabilities.
How can we make coliving accessible to all young people so that we can enrich ourselves with our differences?
This expectation is also shared by young people with disabilities! Yet, to date, too few living spaces are designed so that they can take off without living solely among people with disabilities.
How can we make coliving accessible to all young people so that we can enrich ourselves with our differences?
Solution
Fratries was created for all these young people! Modern, well-located homes to feel at home and enable young working people, with and without mental disabilities (or autism spectrum disorders), to live together.
Beyond being a housing solution, Fratries aims to (re)learn how to live together and to support each young person so that they can integrate as fully as possible into the mainstream environment, and particularly into the world of work. To achieve this, Fratries mobilizes its teams (house managers, caregivers, job coaches) whose mission is to develop people's autonomy.
Recent result
After 18 months of co-construction with 5 young people with disabilities, Fratries opened its first home in Nantes in April 2022. 10 active young people, including 5 with mental disabilities, have settled into this Nantes coliving and are proving every day that living together is possible!
Two more Fratries will see the light of day in spring 2023 in Rennes (35) and Colombes (92). Fratries has been expanding since its launch, with the ambition of opening around twenty in the next 5 years.
The money will be used for
The money raised will be used to finance part of the renovation work to be carried out by Fratries as well as the furnishing of the house.
Goal
Fratries' ambition is to open 25 fratries by 2028 in France's major cities, representing :
- +280 roommates who (re)learn to live together, including 140 young people with disabilities who gain in autonomy and self-confidence, and 140 permanently active young people in the homes who break out of their solitude and change their outlook on disability;
- +140 young people with mental disabilities accompanied towards employment in an ordinary environment, dozens of employees and staff in contact with people with disabilities every day.
- +280 roommates who (re)learn to live together, including 140 young people with disabilities who gain in autonomy and self-confidence, and 140 permanently active young people in the homes who break out of their solitude and change their outlook on disability;
- +140 young people with mental disabilities accompanied towards employment in an ordinary environment, dozens of employees and staff in contact with people with disabilities every day.
75 avenue du 47ème régiment d'infanterie, 35400 Saint-Malo, France
Enabling active young people, with and without disabilities, to live together, quite simply!
Fratries is a coliving operator whose ambition is to offer well-located, well-appointed, well-decorated shared homes all over France to feel at home and enable young working people, with and without mental disabilities, to live together, quite simply!
Fratries is a social enterprise wholly owned by the Fratries Endowment Fund to guarantee its non-profit nature while building a perennial and economically viable model that does not rely solely on donations to ensure its development.
The Fratries Endowment Fund's mission is to bring inclusive housing projects to life in the form of ordinary colivings by providing its know-how and support in social, real estate and financial engineering. To launch this entrepreneurial and human adventure, the Endowment Fund needs to find patrons, or rather committed "social" angels!
Une des futures chambres de Fratries RennesFratries Rennes à la rentrée
Même pendant les vacances, les travaux chez Fratries Rennes ont bien avancé !
Située à 2 pas de la place des Lices à Rennes, la maison se prépare peu à peu à recevoir 13 colocataires, dont 6 porteurs de handicap ou de troubles du spectre autistique.
Animés par Joseph, responsable de maison, les ateliers de co-construction se poursuivent avec les futurs colocataires en situation de handicap et leurs aidants, afin qu'ils puissent définir ensemble le projet de vie partagée au sein de Fratries.
Depuis 2022, début des travaux, mais aussi des ateliers de co-construction, les colocs n'ont qu'une hâte : que les travaux se terminent afin de pouvoir poser leurs valises à Fratries Rennes !
Et aujourd'hui ?
- Les différents espaces de la maison se dessinent. Les futures chambres sont déjà presque finies et bientôt débutera l’agencement de la cuisine.
- La pose des sols et la peinture sont en cours.
- La maison devient très lumineuse et les travaux avancent bien !
On peut aujourd'hui envisager un emménagement pour début 2024 !
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Front of house with seated dogsFratries Rennes: July news!
As a reminder, Fratries Rennes will accommodate 13 young people in coliving, including 6 with disabilities or autism spectrum disorders, in a large building in the hypercentre of Rennes (near Place des Lices).
Since February 2022, the future roommates with disabilities and their caregivers have been meeting regularly to co-construct their social and shared life project alongside Fratries.
Joseph, who lives in an adjacent apartment with his family, is the house manager, the animator of the shared life who will accompany them on a daily basis to gain in autonomy, in close collaboration with life companions, employed by a local SAAD (Service d'Aide et d'Accompagnement à Domicile). Joseph is also their "job coach" to enable them to integrate professionally, in line with their talents!
Since 2022, major work has been underway to fit out this comfortable coliving and enable them to have large shared spaces, but also each their own room with private bathroom/WC.
And today?
> The plasterboard has been laid, the rooms have gradually taken shape and are currently being painted!
> The seated dogs have been installed in the attic, totally transforming the top floor, which is now very bright. Renovation of the bedrooms on this floor is also underway.
> After the work on the upper floors, the living rooms are currently being renovated (addition of velux windows in the future living room, insulation, plasterboard...).
> The plasterboard has been laid, the rooms have gradually taken shape and are currently being painted!
> The seated dogs have been installed in the attic, totally transforming the top floor, which is now very bright. Renovation of the bedrooms on this floor is also underway.
> After the work on the upper floors, the living rooms are currently being renovated (addition of velux windows in the future living room, insulation, plasterboard...).
The progress of the work means that we can envisage Fratries Rennes opening by the end of the year, following the assembly of furniture and fittings that will precede the future housemates moving in! Thank you all for your support in making this project a reality!
Fitting out the Fratries house in RennesThanks to your donations, work on the Fratries house in Rennes is progressing well.
The future housemates are due to move in in September. Depending on the progress of the work, the house will open its doors before the end of the year for sure!
Since February 2022, a group of 6 young people with disabilities and their carers have begun meeting in Rennes alongside Fratries to co-construct their social and shared life project: Vianney, Anne-Emmanuelle, Robin, Fabian, Claire and Alexandre!
Two buildings with a total surface area of 340 m2 and an adjacent family apartment have been secured by Fratries in the hypercentre of Rennes.
Since mid-May 2022, major work has begun to fit out:
- a 13-room coliving facility, including 6 rooms for young people with mental disabilities
- an independent apartment for the employee (and family) accompanying the disabled young people.
The foundation stone was laid on November 16 at an evening inauguration with the project partners.
And today?
In March 2023, the structural work phase is underway: major work has been carried out on the roof with the installation of smoke extraction frames (new velux windows) to ensure the safety of the house, plumbing networks are being laid, masonry work is underway to prepare for the future arrival of the plasterer, and around 90% of the structural reinforcements have been completed.
The coliving will open in the 4th quarter of 2023 and we'll be able to welcome our 13 roommates thanks to you!
Since February 2022, a group of 6 young people with disabilities and their carers have begun meeting in Rennes alongside Fratries to co-construct their social and shared life project: Vianney, Anne-Emmanuelle, Robin, Fabian, Claire and Alexandre!
Two buildings with a total surface area of 340 m2 and an adjacent family apartment have been secured by Fratries in the hypercentre of Rennes.
Since mid-May 2022, major work has begun to fit out:
- a 13-room coliving facility, including 6 rooms for young people with mental disabilities
- an independent apartment for the employee (and family) accompanying the disabled young people.
The foundation stone was laid on November 16 at an evening inauguration with the project partners.
And today?
In March 2023, the structural work phase is underway: major work has been carried out on the roof with the installation of smoke extraction frames (new velux windows) to ensure the safety of the house, plumbing networks are being laid, masonry work is underway to prepare for the future arrival of the plasterer, and around 90% of the structural reinforcements have been completed.
The coliving will open in the 4th quarter of 2023 and we'll be able to welcome our 13 roommates thanks to you!