Training for jobs in commerce
Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE) is a French non-profit organization set up in 1995 by Christian et Marie-France des Pallières, which has helped since 1996 extremely poor children, without providing education, maltreated, forced to work in hard and difficult conditions (rag-pickers, bindweed-picker…) To get them out of the extreme poverty, PSE feeds, trats, provides with schooling the children and trains them for a job to assure them a professional future. At this time, PSE takes in 6 500 children in its different programmes. 1 500 of this children are in the center of professional training which consists of 9 schools training for 19 jobs. Our employee Florent Vu, Consolidation, Accor Hospitality Deutschland, Munich, Germany, liaises very closely with the organization and worked as a volunteer for one year. He is supported on this project by Vincent Raphel, Corporate Finance, Accor Hospitality Deutschland Munich, Germany.
PSE set up a business school training "business and commerce job" offering 4 programs: 2 two-year courses - accountant, administrative assistant, shop assistant – and 2 three-year courses - administrator, administrative manager and Sales/Marketing. Some 184 young people are taking advantage of this training in 2010. The Accor Foundation is funding of foreign-language courses (French and English, 15 hours a week) for these students in 2010-2011. This learning has a role-key in the students’ success.
This project belongs to the "Training & Integration" category.
Foundation grant: €10,000.
