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ESC: Join us in Clairefontaine, a daily care for people with hearing impairment or visual impairment

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About the project

ESC: Join us in Clairefontaine, a daily care for people with hearing impairment or visual impairment

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Founded more than 150 years ago in Marseille, IRSAM is a big organization which supports children and adult who mainly have a sensory disability, in specialized institutions. It curently manages 25 institutes and services in Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, Auvergne Rhônes Alpes and Reunion. 1350 disabilities persons mainly deaf or blind people. IRSAM wants to provide the most appropriate answers to people’s expectations. So it has the will to develop or strengthen its actions along the following lines : • Personal service to people for children and adults to promote social integration and maintain in an ordinary environment • The protection in the work sector to improve professional integration • Specialized training to improve and adapt the quality of accompaniment • The early childhood sector to meet the needs of children with disabilities under the age of 3 • Collaboration with the health sector to detect and guide children at a young age • Accompanying old people loss of autonomy IRSAM is recognized as an expert in sensory inpairement and welcome people : Children and teenagers presenting • Auditory or visual sensory impairment with or without associated disabilities • School learning disorders • Autism spectrum disorders • Behavioral disorders • Rare handicaps Adults and older adults presenting • auditory or visual sensory impairment with associated impairments • intellectual deficiency with or without associated disorders or handicaps • pervasive developmental disorders including autism (TED) • sensory impairment, occupational insertion or job conservation • rare handicaps

💼 What the programme involves

The objective of the mission is to facilitate social inclusion of DHH with disabilities. For that, the volunteer will be in charge to create and support living spaces ensuring local animations such as exhibitions, varnishing, etc. IRSAM already has many works of art from years of creation and history of its residents. Our organisation would like to be able to showcase these creations through an art library (artothèque). The volunteer would have to launch and manage social inclusion projects or open mind activities like intercultural workshops, cooking workshops, sports events. IRSAM has received the quality label of the European solidarity corps. This label allows it to host and send European young people with few opportunities to complete a several months mission into our institutes. Irsam is in charge of European projects (HIPEN and ENVITER network) with other European partner institutions.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteer will be accommodated in a private room on the top floor of the Chaumette building on the IES Les Primevères in Lyon. He will also have a shower (at the first floor) and toilet (on second floor). The volunteer will be provided with accommodation and food, and meals which can be taken at the workplace.

🎒 Leisure activities

Training in french, and french sign language.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: The profile of the volunteer should be comfortable with social interactions and have some experiences in the scope of disability and/or sensory impairment. As all our residents are deaf, the communication with the residents is in French sign language. A sensitivity to the world of deafness is a must. However, a basic training in LSF is possible. We would like to welcome a volunteer of Italian or Spanish nationality or speaking, with adaptability, entrepreneurial skills, comfortable and enjoyable artistic and/or sports topics. An understanding and/or speaking French is a plus.
Deadline: 08/02/2026 20:00

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?
  • Training before and after the project
  • Health insurance during your project
  • round-trip travel reimbursement
  • accommodation and food
  • pocket money
  • language course
  • Return Week-end
  • Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

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📅 Available sessions

FR49716

02/03/2026 → 28/08/2026

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
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Deadline: 08/02/2026

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Lyon, France

France

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 22:16 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English French