The travel workshop that transforms hospital life
Action zones
France
The project
Mental healthYouth
To combat the isolation and malaise of children hospitalized in child psychiatry units throughout France: every week, a workshop to share the discoveries of volunteer travelers from the 4 corners of the globe.
65k
childrenhospitalized each year in child psychiatry in France.
832
hours travel workshops in child psychiatry units by 2023
98
%of hospitals receiving support consider the workshop to be a determining factor in their care and wish to continue it from one year to the next.
Solution
A complementary player to the medical and educational teams at child psychiatric hospitals, L'enfant@l'hôpital fights against isolation and learning difficulties among young patients. Every week, throughout the year, it takes children on a travel workshop to discover the adventures of travelers in the four corners of the world. Week after week, bonds are forged.
With great talent and benevolence, our young animators draw on the travelers' tales to help children experience their joys, trials and tribulations, encounters and discoveries. Natural wonders, traditions and cultures of the world, little-known fruits or spices...: our workshops take hospitalized children to the opposite extreme of withdrawal. They are punctuated by a wide variety of creative activities, specially designed to stimulate the senses and expand knowledge. A thousand different ways to learn!
With great talent and benevolence, our young animators draw on the travelers' tales to help children experience their joys, trials and tribulations, encounters and discoveries. Natural wonders, traditions and cultures of the world, little-known fruits or spices...: our workshops take hospitalized children to the opposite extreme of withdrawal. They are punctuated by a wide variety of creative activities, specially designed to stimulate the senses and expand knowledge. A thousand different ways to learn!
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École Polytechnique Forum: inspiring students to get involved with vulnerable children!
Welcome and thank you to L'enfant@l'hôpital's new Captains!
Last Tuesday, September 3, as they do every year, Clémence and Barbara, our employees, went to École polytechnique, to meet the candidate animators for the 2024-2025 school year.
The association is fortunate to have been a partner of the École polytechnique for over 25 years: every year, it welcomes 5 young students on a 6-month full-time human training period. They are the ones who criss-cross France to visit children and run Kolibri workshops perfectly tailored to their needs.
During the Forum, Clémence and Barbara introduced the young polytechnicians to our mission with vulnerable children all over France and to their future role as animators.
Thank you to Adel, Camille, François, Noé and Siloë, our polytechnician animators from 2023-24 for stopping by to see us on the stand! We are truly grateful and very happy to maintain a strong link with the Polytechnique students, who are very committed and loyal to our association.
PS/ Our CAPTAIN CAUSE project aims to continue our workshops throughout the school year in all the regions and towns where we intervene in hospital psychiatric units: thank you to all our Captains and to the patrons who support us!
We have a very special thought for the employees of C.I.C. Est who gave us their trust this summer 2024.
The bell has rung!
Welcome and thank you to the new Captains of L'enfant@l'hôpital!
The 2023-2024 school year is over: it's also the summer break for Kolibri workshops in our partner hospital establishments all over France.
At the association, June is a festive month: the last workshops are always the occasion for a few snacks, and the "good-byes" to the solidarity travelers (who have exchanged and shared their adventures with the children), often take the form of video-testimonials, videoconferences or better still... visits within the groups of beneficiary children!
For example, on their return to France, the "Tongs et Bottes" expedition travelers went to Dijon on Thursday June 20, and the "Happy et Compagnie" family visited Limoges on Tuesday June 25. Beautiful, joyful moments of sharing and gratitude after more than 9 months of warm exchanges!
For its part, the association's team is taking advantage of the break in the Kolibri workshops to actively prepare for the new school year: our CAPTAIN CAUSE project aims to perpetuate Kolibri workshops in 2024-2025 in all the child psychiatric units that the association accompanies throughout France.
Thank you to all our Captains and patrons who are working alongside us to combat the isolation and learning difficulties of these young patients!
The money will be used for
- Designing a customized travel workshop based on each child's difficulties
- Each week, leading the travel workshop and creating sensory activities
- Purchasing supplies for the activities carried out during the travel workshops
- Coordinating the partnership with child psychiatric hospitals
- Recruiting and training travel workshop leaders and solidarity travelers
8
7
hours of travel workshops for a hospitalized child
already funded28 difts
Action zones
France
Our children are in a bad way. The society we offer them makes them anxious. Let's offer them a way out of their painful past and rediscover the desire to open up to the world and to others.
Marie-Emmanuelle Soutenet
General Delegate
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L'enfant@l'hôpital is a certified association meeting these six criteria:
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Innovation
Ambition
Governance
Transparency
Systemic impact
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