{"id":55,"date":"2023-12-25T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.net\/paris\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:44:58","slug":"csr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/2023\/12\/25\/csr\/","title":{"rendered":"VOLUNTEER P.A.I.R. PROGRAM FOR FOREIGNERS IN FRANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>P.A.I.R. (Program to Aid and Integrate Refugees)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.A.I.R.<\/strong>\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n<p>Serve the City Paris assigns volunteers to new foreigners who wish to learn more about someone else\u2019s story, experience, or learning about best practices of moving to Paris and integrating with the French culture.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers can meet (usually at L\u2019ESPACE IMPACT CAF\u00c9, 67 rue Beaubourg, 75003, Paris) with the new foreigner who is new to France.\u00a0 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 caf\u00e9s each time a meeting takes place (receipts must be submitted to STCP each time).<\/p>\n<p>All volunteers are asked to take a\u00a0<strong>P.A.I.R.<\/strong>\u00a0training course prior to starting the program.\u00a0 The cost is 10 Euros. The program consists of one evening training session, scheduled each month of the year. The sessions discuss the \u2018do\u2019s and don\u2019ts 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<em>paired<\/em>\u00a0partner friend over time, and sometimes continue in conversational language training, group \u2018welcome dinners\u2019, or simply more conversations about integrating into the French culture over a caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, or to receive the monthly training schedule in advance, please send an email to info@servethecity.paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.A.I.R. (Program to Aid and Integrate Refugees) P.A.I.R.\u00a0is 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774963,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/774963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecity.paris\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}