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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Camille is our Kolibri animator in Lille for the year 2024-25!
Dear donors,
Arrived at the beginning of October as a Civic Service Volunteer with the association, Camille works every Wednesday afternoon in the Pierre Mâle Unit of the Fontan Hospital at the C.H.U. in Lille (59).
In this child and adolescent psychiatry department, young people are received on an "emergency" basis. Their state of health is really fragile and their stay is often complicated and hectic.
Trained in pedagogy and the Kolibri digital tool on her arrival, Camille puts her energy and great motivation at the service of the youngsters: she tries, despite all their difficulties and suffering, to take them with her to discover the world, and thus bring them a bubble of well-being, exchanges and an opening to the world.
This year, the young patients are following the adventures of the "Rendez-vous en Terre du milieu" expedition: Guyonn and Thibault, a couple of solidarity travelers and volunteers from the L'enfant@l'hôpital association, set off to experience van-life in New Zealand. Well done to you 3 and thank you Camille!
PS/ Our project highlighted on Dift is to continue our workshops throughout the school year, in all the regions and towns where we intervene, in hospitals in psychiatric units.
Thank you to all our difors and patrons who support us ✨
17 expeditions by our association's partner travelers
Dear difteurs,
Our mission with children and teenagers weakened by illness and disability is based on the stories of travelers with big (very big!) heart.
17 expeditions share their adventures every week with the children we accompany all over France, between 2024 and 2025!
As association volunteers, these globe-trotters offer their (precious) time to write the notebooks, publish them on our digital tool KOLIBRI, and respond to messages posted by groups of children or teenagers. Each trip is followed by 3 or 4 groups.
We can't thank them enough: our travelers are exceptional, and some also came to meet the children before they left! Strong bonds are forged: young people, often isolated, exchange ideas, rediscover a taste for relationships and "embark with them" to the other side of the world.
At the Clinic L'escale de Saint-Victoret (13), for example, hospitalized children follow the travel logs of Bryan and Sébastien "Les roues de la liberté". Our two cyclists came to meet hospitalized teenagers in September. In their video presentation, they tell you all about their project > see you between 4:38 and 5:40!"
Our aim is to guarantee the follow-up of our workshops throughout the school year, in all the regions and towns where we intervene in hospital, psychiatric units.
Many thanks to you for your invaluable support and difts!
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
Thanks to your difts
127
hours of travel workshops for a hospitalized child
114 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
Dift gem2024 promotion
L'enfant@l'hôpital is a certified association meeting these six criteria:
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