“Create, develop and energize your association”, a proposal of Ideas

A cycle of three dates is programmed to set up its associative projects.

“We continue face-to-face, because popular education cannot be done at a distance. Small exercises yes, but not training”, says Nelly Didyk, employee of Ideas. She will lead a cycle entitled “Create, develop and energize your association”, the first training in 2021. Continue to create projects, to think about them, to refine them “allows us to keep hope, envy, with regard to this pandemic”, she confides, insisting on the social bond and solidarity present in our territories and of which associations are one of the main vectors. Scheduled over three days, March 2, 3 and 4, this workshop is open to everyone. “We can also be in creation and need to know how it works or be a volunteer for years. It’s really all public, I will adapt according to the people present, that’s popular education”, explains the guide. Several questions will be addressed over these three dates: those to ask before the creation, those related to formalities and obligations, the subject concerning the possible resources and the necessary conditions of obtaining, and finally, the questions around the mobilization and investment. These three sessions are scheduled from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and, regarding the curfew, an exemption will be established for professional training. The place, linked to sanitary conditions, will be decided according to the number of registered participants

. Among its own projects, the Saint-Affricaine structure would like“to try – given the mass of work that this represents – to take about ten civic services, to make them available to the associations of the city” , indicates the speaker. An action also aimed at supporting young students in this difficult period they are going through.“It can be an opportunity for them to bounce back, to earn a little money, to discover things within associations etc.” , says Nelly. To play in a way the role of network leader in civic services, would be what the association of local development and popular education, Idées, aspires to. Through the various training courses organized in recent months by the structure, the guide says he sees“a significant number of people, who are wondering about changing their professional life” . An observation, according to her, linked to successive confinements: “They tell themselves that they now want to take more time for their family, their friends, their garden…” Nelly Didyk also emphasizes the development of collective strategies, like the Lococonfinés for example.“In our territories, we are in solidarity with each other. It is a necessity”