Toulouse: Kiosc, the device to fit into the neighborhoods
For two years, the Kiosc system has been deployed in Haute-Garonne. It brought together structures and young people from working-class neighborhoods to enable them to enter the professional world through Civic Service.
Every day, there are several at the bottom of the HLM towers waiting for time to pass. Looking for a job or not. To help integrate into the professional world, the UnisCités association has developed the Kiosc system (Information and Orientation Kiosk for Civic Service) in several cities, including Toulouse.
For two years, Hamza, animator, has been in contact with young people in the popular districts of the city, in particular in the Grand Mirail. “I am often confronted with young people who lack access to information. It is therefore important that we mobilize to support them and direct them towards structures that offer civic services. We can thus break down prejudices and remove the obstacles to integration into professional life,” he explains.
His work does not only consist of “going towards”, as he repeats, Hamza also accompanies small neighborhood associations which “could well mobilize more Civic Service to energize their actions”. “It’s still too little. We rub shoulders with the ignorance of the device of the administrative heaviness … “, supports the facilitator.
In Haute-Garonne, for this second year, the establishment of Kiosc 31, supported by all the actors of the city’s policy, shines on 8 political districts of the city in the municipalities of Toulouse and Colomiers.
“8% of young people who did a Civic Service in Haute-Garonne in 2018 live in QPV (compared to 11.5% in Occitanie and 13.5% nationally). This represents 945 young people, this is an insufficient figure”, summarizes Hamza.
According to him, it is an opportunity for some to discover a sector that interests them. Kiosc 31 is pleased to have helped more than 100 young people aged 16 to 25 to carry out a Civic Service since its beginnings. This year, the device hopes that 150 new young people will start a mission in a structure of the department.