The VAFC and Sport dans la ville play it collectively, to help the integration of young people

2024-10-02 16:33:36

You said Sports in the city ? « Born in Lyon, our association uses sport as a pretext to promote the integration of young people », explains Hauts-de-France regional director Yoann Mascart. Present in Valenciennes for two years, since May 2023 it has had a city stadium, rue Tinchon, 80% funded by the National Sports Agency. It operates with the help of patrons and cities. Concretely, three educators and an integration manager welcome around a hundred young Valenciennes residents on the football and basketball fields on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. This association at the national level has 68 sites and 12,000 young people monitored per year; 5 partner cities and 8 sites in the region.

Yoann Mascart, regional director of Sport dans la ville, and Yoann Godin, general director of the VAFC during the signing of the agreement.

Around fifty young people and their families came for the event.

Carnégy Antoine and Julien Masson answered questions from young people about their careers.

This field, inaugurated in May 2023, welcomes young people from three neighborhoods two days a week, under the supervision of three educators and an integration manager.

Families took the opportunity to register their child for football and basketball sessions.

Yoann Mascart, regional director of Sport dans la ville, and Yoann Godin, general director of VAFC

It’s free but you have to register

> Who is this for? The city of Valenciennes and the association have concluded a five-year agreement, aimed at supporting young people aged 6 to 20 living in three priority and neighboring neighborhoods targeted by city policy, namely Dutemple, Chasse-Royale and Saint-Waast where the city stadium is located. It’s free but you have to register (inscription.sportdanslaville.com or by contacting Rémi Ingarao on 06 32 98 74 48).

> Did you say insertion? On Wednesdays and Saturdays, we come to play football and basketball, but the professionals take the opportunity to talk about jobs, internships, training for those over 14 years old. Thus, Fethi Yahiaoui, 18 years old, from Chasse-Royale, who has been attending the city stadium for two years, was happy to tell us that a high school student at the Jean-Paul-II Institution in Denain, “ the association will help me find an internship in private and public security “. Sport dans la ville uses its contacts among its patrons and partners.

Fethi Yahiaoui, who lives in Chasse-Royale and studies in Denain, is counting on the association to help him find an internship in security.

> And the VAFC in all this? It’s the luxury partner! One that can attract even more young people to this win-win system. “ We want to see even more VAFC jerseys on the back », smiled the general director of the club Yoann Godin, addressing the fifty boys and young girls attracted this Wednesday afternoon by the signing session provided by the players Carnégy Antoine, Julien Masson and Jean-Éric Moursou. “ Here are the supporters of tomorrow, who will come with their families », Explains the general director, who intends to return the favor, in particular by organizing a forum to discover sports professions at the VAFC. To make your eyes shine, a visit to the training center and visits to the Hainaut stadium with the pros are also planned. History of dreaming further together.

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