[June 2015] Give your old glasses to those who need them.

Entraide-Solidarity supports the Association Lunettes sans Frontière (glasses without borders).

Since 1974, the volunteers of this association have collected 80,000 pairs of glasses a year, and distributed them to people in need in 90 countries on all continents, via clinics and optical dispensaries.

Lunettes sans Frontière seeks to collect, in good condition (no loose glasses, or empty frames):

• prescription glasses
• sun glasses
• glass cases
• hearing aids

The collection will take place in different buildings from 15 au 19 June as following:

Agora:

• Office B4.08.V, Anita van de Kar
• Office A6.42.C, Maria Ochoa-Llido

EDQM:

• Office MH1.101, Marianne Thébaud

Palais:

• Office 0.185A, Alice Eleuterio
• Office 6.050, Delphine Weisshaupt

PDH:

• Office 40.052.402.4.E, Pavlina Snupikova

Entraide-Solidarity and Lunettes sans Frontière thank all staff members wishing to contribute to this action.

• For more information, please check the website www.lunettes-sans-frontiere.fr

[June 2015] Following the call for help in April 2015 by the SolHimal association for the victims of the earthquakes in Nepal, the Entraide-Solidarity association is happy to inform you that the sums collected amounted to €3000.

SolHimal will use this amount for a region in the North of Nepal where more than a hundred children from different villages still sleep under tents.

Entraide-Solidarity thanks all the generous donators and in particular the Amicale Femmes who donated €1500.

[June 2015] Thanks to your generosity, the glasses collection organised from 15 to 19 June for the Association Lunettes sans Frontières was a huge success with 10 boxes collected (that is to say an estimation of 800 to 1000 glasses) between the different buildings of the Council of Europe.

The Entraide-Solidarity association would like to thank all those who donated their glasses and cases. They will now be distributed to people in need in 90 countries on all continents, via clinics and optical dispensaries. 

• News published on 29 July 2015 in the DNA [fr]
• Photo gallery of the Lunettes Sans Frontière association 40th birthday

[June 2015] The N.O.A.M. association (new organisation of arts and crafts) asked the Entraide-Solidarity association for help to fund a project for the development of the Kossoghina primary school garden in Burkina Faso.

Besides the educational aspect, this school garden will be the source for one daily meal for the 185 pupils of this primary school.

The contribution made by Entraide-Solidarity amounted to €2,401.

[August 2015] In 2011, a young retired construction worker from France decided to create the association "Le Cocon de Cabrousse" with the purpose to building, managing and developing an orphanage in Cabrousse, Senegal. Today, the orphanage hosts 32 children.

In order to make a contribution to this nice adventure, Entraide-Solidarity paid the sum of €610.89 corresponding to the purchase of 40 chairs.
 

• More information about the association "Le Cocon de Cabrousse"

[November 2015] The Entraide-Solidarity association supports the visual artists, illustrators, designers, of Arts against Hunger 2015 and invites you to an exhibition-auction Saturday 21 November at the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR).

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[December 2015] The association Mano a Mano has been organising "Useful holidays" for over 15 years; 2 months of outside school activities during the summer break dedicated to children from the slums of Ensenada, near Lima, Peru.

Each year, 150 children benefit from school support and workshops of architecture, landscaping, urban planning or engineering and literature.

To support this project, the Entraide-Solidarity association paid the sum of €1274 corresponding to logistics and hygiene costs.

• Mano a Mano
• Useful holidays
• Photo gallery
• Report "Vacances utiles 2016" [fr]
• Mon petit doigt m'a dit, le Petit Journal de Mano a Mano 2016 [fr]

[December 2015] Since 2005, the Entraide-Solidarity association supported St Joseph's Home for the Elderly in Kaduthuruthy (Kerela, Southern India). This home for the elderly, founded in 2001, welcomes dozens of elderly people who find themselves with neither family nor financial means.

As previously, the Entraide-Solidarity association raised €1,000 for medicine for the home.