Cité Solidaire spreads its wings

30 April 2011 - Sustainability - France

After Argenteuil and Saint-Denis, the Cité Solidaire (Community Solidarity) programme is extending into Sarcelles, where eight associations were selected at the Selection Committee meeting on 24 March. Launched in 2010, Cité Solidaire aims to increase VINCI Foundation support for small associations working, in France, in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. A total of 21 bodies (offering educational and cultural activities, community events, training courses, learning support for schoolchildren, etc.) have.now been supported in these three towns in the Val-d’Oise and Seine-Saint-Denis departments (Paris region) – by employees of about a dozen locally-based VINCI companies, and overall funding of €300,000.