Promoting equal access to resources and to opportunities in cities
For some people, fitting into society and the city is a long, complex path paved with financial, linguistic, cultural, social, and geographic challenges. This programme seeks to lift the obstacles that prevent them from accessing urban life.
The Foundation supports initiatives that provide economically and socially vulnerable individuals with access to the city’s resources and opportunities: cultural institutions, historical heritage, and activities and services, while encouraging sustainable mobility as a means to access them.
Cycl’Avenir
Cycl’Avenir promotes the social and workforce integration of women in precarious situations (refugees, asylum seekers, homeless, and others). The association conducts workshops teaching them how to ride bicycles and navigate urban environments on bikes. It also organises circuits to discover the city through guided tours of Paris and its suburbs.
Opéra Comique
Every year, to replace part of its staff, youth association Opéra Comique organises a talent roadshow at schools in priority education investment areas located at the ends of metro and RER lines. The young talents start the following academic year in a performance arts programme.
