Service-Learning: Volunteer Program in Montpellier, France
Study Abroad integrated with Volunteer Service
Volunteer Service that Addresses Real Human Needs
You will serve 10–12 hours per week in one or two service agencies, encountering
France’s particular system of social services and practicing your French in the community.
You might:
- serve as an aid or tutor for disabled persons
- assist in education or recreation at a rehabilitation center for children
- tutor in English at the Institut St Pierre and high schools as a placement service
- assist in a center providing social services for the underprivileged
- help with stocking, sorting, and redistribution of foodstuffs at a food bank
- work with specialists in psychiatry and social care in a social rehabilitation center
- work with an occupational therapist at a retirement home
Volunteer Service Examples
Following are examples of agencies where IPSL students have served in
the past or may be able to serve. Other service placements may be available. Your placement
will be determined by community and agency needs, as well as your interests, goals, and skills.
ASSOCIATION DES PARALYSES DE France (Association for handicapped people)
The APF is a nationally recognized non-profit association for people crippled by motor deficiencies and other physical disabilities.
The role of the foreign students is to meet with handicapped people so as to break the solitude in which the handicapped often find themselves, which is due in many ways to their exclusion by society.
Among the requests we have received are some for tutoring in English, in computer programming, researching information inaccessible to the handicapped, as well as accompanying them on outings or even just making them feel their value as human beings.
Population Served: People with motor deficiencies and other physical disabilities
Areas of Service:
Companionship
/
Disabilities
/
Recreation
/
Research
BANQUE ALIMENTAIRE (Food Bank)
Students help with the stocking, sorting and redistribution of foodstuffs.
Population Served:
Areas of Service:
INSTITUT SAINT PIERRE (Rehab center for children)
The Institute is a private non-profit hospital center.
The students work on two projects at the Institute: one is based on education (except in Summer) and the other on recreation. The students performing community service assist the teachers in charge of education and contribute to the tutoring of the students in English
Population Served: Children in rehabilitation
Areas of Service:
Children & Youth
/
Education
/
ESL
L’AVITARELLE, SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL, SECOURS POPULAIRE, LES RESTOS DU COEUR
The centers provide several services for the underprivileged such as meals, urgent medical care, distribution of clothes and shoes, as well as rehabilitation through professional training, etc.
Population Served: Underprivileged persons
Areas of Service:
Food services/distribution
/
Healthcare
/
Social services
La PROVIDENCE (Retirement home)
Students work with an occupational therapist. And participate in recreation activities.
Population Served: Older persons
Areas of Service:
Elderly
/
Therapy
RECTORAT (Tutoring during the academic year)
The students participate in a tutoring program for high school students. They usually assist English teachers.
Population Served: Underprivileged high school students
Areas of Service:
ESL
SECOURS CATHOLIQUE (Caritas)
Students help with the tutoring of high school students from underprivileged families.
Population Served:
Areas of Service:
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