Providing respite care for children and adolescents

The ACTION ENFANCE Foundation created the AGILE scheme in 2022. It is designed to offer respite stays to children and teenagers hosted in our Villages.

Concretely, 3 family educators take 3 children and/or teenagers to live for 8 to 10 days in the countryside, aboard a van or in a tent.

The aim of this project is to create spaces of calm outside the Villages, conducive to encounters with people outside the placement framework, and to unprecedented moments of sharing.

The aim is to offer resourcing, notably through travel, departure, the discovery of new horizons and reconnection with nature.

AGILE corresponds to a real need. Village educational teams sometimes find themselves in difficulty when faced with children and teenagers who show signs of malaise, jeopardizing the balance of a household and the educational work carried out for and around them. A break in rhythm then proves necessary.

Since its creation, 51 children and teenagers aged 9 to 17 have benefited from AGILE stays. In Berry, in Auvergne, in Brittany, they have been able to live new experiences: milking goats, making cuttings, lending assistance to the farmers who receive them, but also hiking, walking, horseback riding, canoeing...

This scheme is 100% funded by the generosity of our donors.

Each stay costs around €4,000 per child.

- staff premises,

- related administrative costs,

- travel and food during stays.