PSG For Communities: Another Season of Solidarity and Commitment

PSG For Communities: Another Season of Solidarity and Commitment

PSG For Communities has begun the 2024–2025 season with a new aim: to provide struggling young people, families and communities with tangible support through a series of solidarity initiatives. For more than 20 years, the Paris Saint-Germain Foundation has been invested in social inclusion, access to education, grassroots sport and improving the living conditions of the most vulnerable in society by drawing on the educational and psychological benefits of sport.

This season, PSG For Communities is reiterating its stated aim through four major initiatives:

– CANTINE SOLIDAIRE (“CANTEEN FOR ALL”)
Supporting 8,000 vulnerable students

– ALLEZ LES FILLES ! (“LET’S GO, GIRLS!”)
Giving young girls access to sport

– ONZE DE LÉGENDE (“LEGENDS XI”)
Encouraging the inclusion of autistic children through football

– L’ÉCOLE ROUGE ET BLEU (“THE ROUGE ET BLEU SCHOOL”)
A third school at the Hôpital Necker–Enfants Malades

CANTINE SOLIDAIRE: SUPPORTING 8,000 VULNERABLE STUDENTS

In 2021, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, PSG For Communities launched the Cantine Solidaire programme in collaboration with Studhelp, Linkeee and La Communauté Ecotable in order to distribute hot meals and food items to vulnerable students. In addition, these students are given meal vouchers and are supported in their search for accommodation and for work thanks to the skills and the donations of the club’s partners, sponsors and employees. In the space of three years, over 4,500 students have been helped, and for the 2024–2025 season, PSG For Communities is looking to step up its efforts even further.

This season (November 2024):

The aim: to support up to 8,000 students.
· 2,500 students are expected to turn up to an exceptional Cantine Solidaire event at the Parc des Princes, where ten kilograms of food items will be handed out to each person.
· A pop-up store full of both new and second-hand clothes will be set up thanks to donations from retail chains, associations, collaborators and athletes involved with Paris Saint-Germain, in partnership with the platform Dressed.

ALLEZ LES FILLES !: GIVING YOUNG GIRLS ACCESS TO SPORT

For the last 11 years, the PSG For Communities programme Allez les Filles ! has introduced girls who are between the ages of 11 and 16 and who come from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Poissy, Colombes, Vitry-sur-Seine, Saint-Denis and Paris’s 19th arrondissement to the benefits of playing a sport, as well as broadening their horizons through cultural activities. All year long, these girls get to enjoy conversations with and support from their sponsors – namely Paris Saint-Germain’s Marie-Antoinette Katoto, Jade Le Guilly, Laurina Fazer and Aïssatou Tounkara – and since its launch, Allez les Filles ! has supported nearly 550 young girls.

This season (2nd October 2024):

• 75 young girls from Poissy, Colombes and Vitry-sur-Seine were invited to PSG For Communities’s headquarters in Poissy for the launch of this season’s edition of the Allez les Filles ! programme, where they got to share a special moment with Paris Saint-Germain’s women’s team during a training session.

ONZE DE LÉGENDE: encouraging the inclusion of autistic children through FOOTBALL

Launched in 2021, the Onze de Légende programme encourages inclusion by bringing together teams of autistic and neurotypical children. Under the supervision of PSG For Communities’s team of coaches, these children train in Clamart and Poissy every week, with the aim of playing against the club’s U9s at the end of the year, while the idea behind the project is to promote inclusion and coexistence through football and the values surrounding it, such as mutual aid, teamwork and solidarity. The programme has also been officially recognised as part of the French government’s Grande Cause Nationale for 2024.

This season (late November):

· The programme will be rolled out in Ivry-sur-Seine, Lille and Paris’s 19th arrondissement, in partnership with Naked Heart France, Maïa Autisme, Urban Soccer and PSG Academy, with around 20 children present in each location.

L’ÉCOLE ROUGE ET BLEU: A THIRD SCHOOL AT THE HôPITAL NECKER–ENFANTS MALADES

Every day, L’École Rouge et Bleu provides children between the ages of seven and 11 with an after-school environment that combines physical and educational activities. Its aim is to restore the confidence of struggling school pupils by mending their relationship with learning and by instilling in them values such as teamwork and fair play. This unique programme was designed by a specialised teaching team that is trained in the neurocognitive approach and in potential-optimisation techniques, and the schools in Mantes-la-Jolie and in Poissy both host 64 children per year. Since its launch in 2016, the programme has already supported nearly 1,300 children.

This season (June 2025):

• A third school will be opened at the Hôpital Necker–Enfants Malades in southwestern Paris, thereby strengthening PSG For Communities’s commitment to helping sick children

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