Volunteers-In-Residence

The Civic Service is a scheme that allows young people from 16 to 25 (30 for those with disabilities) to get involved in an organization or a public service.
Afev is one of the major providers of Civic Service opportunities. It has welcomed more than 9500 young volunteers since this scheme was created in 2010. Acting as a complementary organization to public schooling, Afev allows its volunteers to be a tangible contribution to the fight against educational inequality.

At Afev, more than half of our Civic Service volunteers get involved with pupils and teachers through our Volunteer-sin-Residence program. This program refers to artists-in-residence, who are welcomed in a specific place to work on a project. At Afev, each volunteer comes to work several times a week, throughout the whole year, in a specific school, most often located in a priority education area. These youth act as educational third parties during both school hours and after-school hours. By leading missions built in partnership between Afev and the teaching teams, volunteers participate in improving atmospheres in schools.

Because they are almost the same age and because of their proximity with the children in the workshops they organize, volunteers become the pupils’ preferred intermediaries. They can boost self-esteem and prevent dropping-out. Through their Civic Service missions, our volunteers also make pupils aware of what civic and community involvement means.
These missions are also conducted in libraries.