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Mentoring

Mentoring

Mentoring, a solution to fight educational inequality

Mentoring is a relationship of unpaid support and help based on mutual learning. Its purpose is to develop the mentee’s autonomy and personal development by setting progressive and personalized goals.
At Afev, mentors are volunteer students who dedicate 2 hours a week to support a child or teenager struggling on their educational journey. The goal is to increase their self-esteem and awaken in them the desire to learn. Beyond homework, both mentor and mentee work together on openness to cultural diversity, mobility, imagining a post-graduate education…

Mentoring afev
afev crossroads young peoples lives

Afev’s actions come in at the crossroads of young people’s lives

Some steps are crucial on the educational journey ; they are key moments that crystallize and strengthen inequality, because children and their families need to call forth very important transverse, social and cultural skills :

  • learning to read and write,
  • getting into middle school, the first steps towards autonomy, and later course choices,
  • entering university.

Those moments are the focus of Afev’s actions. In addition, Afev helps children and youth with specific needs, especially those who just arrived in France.

Mentoring takes on a variety of shapes

Historically at Afev, mentoring is about a student supporting a child 2 hours a week in their home. To adapt to new needs and contexts (health crisis, student isolation, etc.), Afev developed new forms of mentoring !

  • Remote mentoring

    Remote mentoring

    A youth below 30 helps a child or teenager remotely

  • Learning to read mentoring vers la lecture

    Learning to read mentoring

    A student helps a child between 5 and 7 with books and games

  • High school mentoring

    High school mentoring

    A high school student individually mentors a younger student 1 hour a week, in a supported group context.

  • Welcome mentoring

    Welcome mentoring

    A university student helps another student in their first months at university

  • children and youth mentored

    18 572

    children and youth mentored in 2021-2022

  • picto binômes

    180 000

    duos brought together since our creation in 1992

  • +2000 partner schools afev

    2 000

    partner schools

How does Afev work ?

The 54 Afev offices work in close partnership with local social and educational players. Our partners (schools, organizations promoting educational success, social workers, nonprofits…) are the ones who identify which children need mentorship. Throughout the year, our teams connect with them to talk about the mentees’ evolution.

You too can help in the fight against educational inequality by getting involved in Afev mentoring !

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