FOOD DISTRIBUTION TO THE HOMELESS AND REFUGEES IN PARIS

Serve the City Paris organizes food distribution for the homeless and the refugees throughout Paris every week of the year. Today, our Association delivers food to over 400+ homeless and refugees each week, and we also provide food for integration events, sports activities, and other philanthropic missions throughout Paris.

Today, we have active volunteers in the city of Paris every week of the year, who sign up to help with our food distribution program. Most of these volunteers are English speaking ex-patriots, immigrants, and French citizens who speak English.   (For most of the refugees in Paris, English is their first language).

At least 3 days of every week of the year, you will find a group of Serve the City Paris volunteers meeting in the morning at Parc Albert Schweitzer at 10 rue de l’Hôtel de Ville 75004  (Métro: Pont Marie or Saint Paul), before heading out across Paris to deliver food to refugees and the less fortunate.    The whole activity takes 2-3 hours maximum.

Volunteers go out in small groups  (5-6 in each group) to various areas around Paris (rue St. Honoré, Chatelet, Gare St Lazare, Opera, Gare de Lyon, Gare Austerlitz, St. Germain, Bastille, Nation or République).

There is no need for volunteers to bring food. We supply all the food each week (with the help of our donations and partners), for the marginalized in the streets of Paris.   Also, there is no long term commitment to volunteer.  Come when you want, and as often as you like.

REQUIREMENTS:
To become a Serve the City Paris Volunteer, please fill out a Volunteer Registration Form HERE

Once you fill out the form, there is a monthly €10 Euro donation required to participate in STCP volunteer activities.  This €10 euro donation is a tax deductible donation and it goes towards our expenses for our programs for the marginalized in Paris, and our volunteer activities at Serve The City Paris.

We also ask all our new volunteers to consider taking one of our ‘new volunteer training’ workshops.   The new volunteer workshops are usually offered 2x per month, in the evenings for 45 minutes.   They are always online using Zoom and usually very interactive where volunteers can ask questions about volunteering with Serve The City Paris.

You might also consider joining the STCP SAVE program, which offers volunteering on special projects, training and weekly workshops that offer a combination of theory and practice around social impact, to ensure more impactful and meaningful volunteer experiences for our volunteers.

There are many benefits of joining the SAVE program and there is no additional cost.  You can take an unlimited number of workshops each month, and participate in a wide variety of exclusive SAVE Member volunteer activities and events.  SAVE members also receive a certificate of benevolence for school, work or job search requirements. SAVE members also collaborate with fellow SAVE members to social impact projects.

A S.A.V.E. application must be completed. The S.A.V.E. application can be filled out at this link HERE

To learn more about S.A.V.E HERE

Please remember to register for this event at this link HERE

 

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VOLUNTEER P.A.I.R. PROGRAM FOR FOREIGNERS IN FRANCE

P.A.I.R. (Program to Aid and Integrate Refugees)

P.A.I.R. is a program designed to help support the integration of asylum seekers, refugees and new foreigners who come to Paris, and wish to learn from others how to best integrate into the French and Parisian culture.

Serve the City Paris assigns volunteers to new foreigners who wish to learn more about someone else’s story, experience, or learning about best practices of moving to Paris and integrating with the French culture.

Volunteers are assigned to a foreigner, who is usually a new beneficiary of one of the Serve the City programs. The connection and interaction usually takes place during or after a foreigner participates in a Serve the City activity, such as a training course, receiving a sandwich, or a foreigner is introduced to us through a STCP partner NGO.

Volunteers can meet (usually at L’ESPACE IMPACT CAFÉ, 67 rue Beaubourg, 75003, Paris) with the new foreigner who is new to France.  Serve the City Paris helps coordinate the introduction and ensures there are no language barriers. Serve the City Paris also reimburses the volunteer for two cafés each time a meeting takes place (receipts must be submitted to STCP each time).

All volunteers are asked to take a P.A.I.R. training course prior to starting the program.  The cost is 10 Euros. The program consists of one evening training session, scheduled each month of the year. The sessions discuss the ‘do’s and don’ts of communicating with a new asylum seeker, refugee, or a foreigner coming to France. We also discuss the key factors of integration and best practices of how to properly integrate into the French culture.

We encourage our volunteers to meet with the same foreigner more than once, but it is not mandatory. Many of our volunteers become close to their paired partner friend over time, and sometimes continue in conversational language training, group ‘welcome dinners’, or simply more conversations about integrating into the French culture over a café.

For more information, or to receive the monthly training schedule in advance, please send an email to info@servethecity.paris.

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HELP FOREIGNERS FIND WORK IN FRANCE

For this event, please remember to register at this link HERE

Serve the City Paris offers two programs to help refugees find work in France :

TIEO Program

Since November of 2017, Serve-the-City Paris has developed a course program called TIEO (Trouvez du travail, Intégrez avec la culture Française, & Être Optimiste). This course is specifically designed to help refugees and immigrants find work in France, integrate into the French work culture, and remain optimistic and positive throughout the period of searching for work.

The TIEO program was created by a group of French and international foreigners living and working in France. Serve the City Paris hand-selected the team of professionals who developed the course program, based on a strong level of experience in human resources, personal development and employment recruiting. Pedological professionals helped with the design of the program, and a team of instructors who have experience working with refugees in the past played a vital role in the program creation.

The entire program’s objective is not only to help the refugees with the standard requirements for finding a job (how to search for the right job, CV creation, writing motivation letters and interview role-playing), but the program also offers very unique and compelling strategies and actions that are critical in securing work in France.  The course program is also unique because it was created by the TIEO team who also participate in parts of the course and share their perspective and their personal experience about coming to France and trying to find work.

The TIEO program is 4 weeks in length offered on a weekly basis, twice per week (4 hours each day).

The program provides a special certification for completion of the program, a Linkedin Learning license, and a learning platform where students can learn to use technology that will help them find work.

For more information on becoming a student or a TIEO team volunteer, please contact info@servethecityparis.com.

 

Serve the City x CleverConnect x SNC program.

program that empowers jobseeker with video resume, in partnership with CleverConnect and SNC.

 

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