More than one in four French gives free time and works for an association! If you want to help, here are the 9 places to volunteer in Montpellier.
The current period marked by the pandemic Covid-19 once again showed the importance of the French associative fabric. Today and more than ever, associations need volunteers to exist.
To help the associations to continue their commitments, the least help is welcome. So if you want to give a hand to Montpellier, here are the 9 places to volunteer.
Acting for the planet
1. Montpellier Zéro Déchet
Photo credit: Facebook – Montpellier Zéro Déchet
Mail: [email protected]
Founded in August 2017, the association Montpellier Zéro Déchet gathers committed and voluntary citizens wishing to act for waste reduction and for the diffusion of the movement Zero Waste .
If you want to promote and militate in favor of waste reduction on Montpellier and the region, contact them ! You will join a team of about a hundred volunteers to act for the planet.
In fact, the association regularly performs activities such as cleaning sites by the sea or in the city or raising awareness in schools. Beautiful steps to support if we aspire to volunteer in Montpellier.
To help the poorest
2. Solidarity News Facing unemployment
Photo credit: Facebook – Solidarity News facing unemployment – SNC
Mail: [email protected]
New solidarity in the face of unemployment has been a major social actor in France since 1985. The association has shown its effectiveness in the field of solidarity and in accompanying people to employment. In fact, more than 62% of the accompanied people find a job or training thanks to the support of volunteers!
Created to help unemployed people not return to isolation, the association now has 2,500 volunteers in France. One of its organizations is based in Montpellier and provides important support to people seeking employment in the region.
If you want to volunteer in Montpellier, don’t hesitate to contact them to become a SNC coach. Your help will be precious.
3. Catholic rescue
Photo credit: Facebook – Herault’s Catholic Relief
Mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 04 99 13 61 13
The Catholic Relief has been a major player in the French associative movement since 1946. Created to act against poverty and in favour of solidarity, the Catholic Relief now has nearly 65,000 volunteers working for a more just and fraternal society.
If you wish to join the association, contact the delegation of Hérault. Based in Montpellier, there are more than 1,000 volunteers who regularly carry out activities to support people vulnerable by the epidemic.
Collections of clothing, school support, literacy, food bank, reception, listening or accompaniment, any help is welcome and precious.
4. Restored from the heart
Photo credit: Facebook – Les Restos du Coeur
Mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 04 67 40 52 37
Created in 1985 by Coluche, the famous association Les Restos du Cœur has been working for more than 35 years to help the poorest people. Especially in the food field, where several thousand meals are distributed free of charge every day.
No less than 12 structures are present in Montpellier and helps nearly 25,000 people every year! If you want to help the 17,000 Herault families concerned, contact them and join the team of 1,300 regular volunteers.
A wonderful cause for volunteering in Montpellier. We count on you!
5. The little brothers of the poor of Montpellier
Photo credit: Facebook – The Little Brothers of the Poor
Mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 04 67 60 49 88
Since 1946, the little brothers of the poor have accompanied, in a fraternal relationship, people over 50 years of age suffering from serious diseases, poverty, loneliness or exclusion. Through their actions, they allow the elderly, isolated and often alone to taste life and become part of the world around them.
An approach supported by the section based in Montpellier, which conducts sustainable actions around three social missions: accompanying, acting collectively and testifying/warning.
Founded in 2010, the Montpellier team is composed of 25 volunteers who accompany some 20 seniors, home and group accommodation. If you want to make your contribution to this noble cause, do not hesitate to contact them!
6. Unicef
Photo credit: Facebook – UNICEF France
Mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 04 67 66 27 50
The Unicef was created in 1946 to help the world’s children and improve their living conditions. The organization is working on 5 major areas: girls’ education, vaccination and AIDS, child protection, health of newborns and gender equality.
Priority is given to the most vulnerable children, including victims of war, natural disasters, extreme poverty and all forms of violence. Wills shared by his Hérault committee, based in Montpellier, who regularly seeks volunteers to participate in their daily missions.
In particular, advocacy officers to raise public awareness of the Unitef missions (in schools, communities...). If you want to integrate the team, don’t hesitate to send them an email or call them!
7. AFP France handicap
Photo credit: Facebook – APF France handicap
Mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 04 67 10 03 25
AFP France handicap is an association that emerged in 1933 under the impulse of four young people with disabilities poliomyelitis an acute infectious disease. It is active at the national and local levels to enable persons with disabilities to access equal rights and exercise their citizenship.
For example, the association supports persons with disabilities and their families in schooling, vocational training and access to employment, the right to health care and access to cultural life.
If you would like to help them continue their efforts for people with disabilities, join the team by contacting the delegation of Hérault, based in Montpellier.
To commit to animals
8. SPA Montpellier
Photo credit: Facebook – SPA Montpellier
Mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 04 67 27 73 78
The SPA in Montpellier was founded in 1934 to protect abused animals. Since 2010, the refuge based in Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone, close to Montpellier, has been doing great work to collect the abandoned, maltreated or wandering animals (including dogs and cats).
Their missions are based on the care of abandoned animals and the rescue of untreated or roaming animals. The aim is then to adopt the animals collected at the shelter, in the best possible conditions.
If you want to act alongside the volunteers and employees of the SPA in Montpellier, call them or email them!
9. The Pattounes of the Heart
Photo credit: Facebook – The Pattounes of the Heart
Mail: [email protected]
This small association of about 20 volunteers was created in February 2013. It helps the many abandoned and homeless cats in Montpellier and its surroundings. A remarkable work is done to protect these cats, often defenseless.
Thus, found cats are sterilized, fed and treated so that they can be adopted by host families. So that this association continues to support this beautiful cause, all help is welcome!
So you can contact them to become the host family of a small cat, the time it is definitely adopted or to ask them if they are looking for new volunteers.
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