To support Lakou Bosco's work, become a sponsor of this community center.
Bosco's yard
Created in October 2020 and approved as a social living space by the CAF of Guadeloupe, Bosco's yard aims to support young people in Guadeloupe who are experiencing idleness and families in their educational mission, based on Salesian pedagogy.
- Residents facing a concerning social situation!
A youth without employment and/or revolting:
40% des jeunes diplômés quittent le territoire (Guadeloupe)
30 % des 16/24 ans sont ni en formation ni en emploi, ni en stage (Guadeloupe) - A suffering family environment
62 % children under 3 years old live in a single-parent family (Abymes)
40,4 % des enfants entre 0 et 10 ans sont considérés comme vulnérables (Abymes) - A difficult school experience:
2 times more school dropouts than the national average (Guadeloupe)
31.4% % of 16-25 year olds are functionally illiterate (Guadeloupe)
23 fewer school days on average than in metropolitan France (Guadeloupe)
A global sponsorship program
- Reaching out to audiences considered invisible by many institutions: street performances to engage with street children and their families
- Opening future prospects through education and mediation:
– Educational and academic support
– Socio-educational workshops (gardening, pastels, nutrition, pottery learning techniques, dance therapy, music, sports practices, relaxation, and concentration)
– Reading support for struggling children starting from first grade
Parenting support
– Remediation device for children at risk of dropping out of school
– Support for common law mechanisms - Support and sustain parenting: Parent discussion groups, parent-child activities and outings, access to mainstream services, job searching
Help us?
- Share your time: to allow you and young people to make new acquaintances! by participating in associative actions – hosting a young person for a weekend / on vacation within your family.
- Make a regular (or one-time) donation: implement consistent educational actions over time! By donating a sum of money each month (€66% of your donation is tax-deductible), you can help fund the entire educational project.
These sponsorships will allow us to implement educational support over time, in its entirety, while taking into account the uniqueness of the child.
What returns will you have as a sponsor?
Godparents will receive regular updates on activities and the youth through newsletters and short video clips from the field.;
The feeling of participating with a team that seeks to build the future by focusing on the education of children from disadvantaged neighborhoods in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe.
