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LOOKING TOWARDS THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS
Gide partners charities that work to give the younger generations better access to education.
Gide saw ten of its members become volunteer mentors for Proxité. Together, they organised a visit to the Paris courthouse building for over twenty pupils. Gide also offers its support to InitiaDROIT, which raises the awareness of schoolchildren about the law, by sending volunteer lawyers into Civic Education classes to review real case studies. Several members of the firm took their knowledge and experience to classes in the Paris region in 2015-2016, and the charity also received our financial support to organise its Coupe Nationale des Élèves Citoyens. Lastly, we support the Apprentis d’Auteuil foundation, which aims to welcome, train and integrate young people experiencing social difficulties. In 2015 and 2016, we offered free advice on a number of legal issues, and financial support for a Paris-based programme enabling 14-year-olds facing serious social and educational difficulties to build a clear and motivating professional orientation project. In addition, in early 2016, twenty Gide runners took part in the Ecotrail trail race to celebrate the foundation’s 150th anniversary.
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irst among these is Frateli, which organises the mentoring by professionals of promising young students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The aim is to reveal the talents of these students by giving them the tools, methods, access to a network, and the confidence they need. Twenty staff members and lawyers of the firm are currently Frateli mentors. In the same spirit, Gide supports Proxité, which acts at the very heart of working class neighbourhoods to encourage the educational and professional integration of pupils and young adults. It offers individual mentoring by volunteers drawn from the working population. In 2015-2016, as well as offering a financial donation to support Proxité’s development in the Paris region,
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