Toulouse: A new mentoring program for young people aged 13 to 30
France is faced with a challenge, as essential as it is urgent: the fight against inequalities which have a very concrete impact on the educational path and integration of a very large number of young people. The health crisis has accentuated the situation by hitting young people hard. According to the report of the Observatory of inequalities published on June 2, 2021, the precariousness rate reaches 52.7% among young people aged 15 to 24. Innovating and creating concrete solutions to support these young people is more necessary than ever. This is the objective of the new “MentoratByLeo” program, with which the Léo Lagrange Federation pursues its commitment to equal opportunities for young people, whatever their life course.
MentoratByLéo aims to connect young people aged 13 to 30 with volunteer mentors, who could win over a young person, help them get to know themselves better, reveal their potential, guide them in their career choices. and in its projects or even develop its power to act. Mentoring can take several forms: tutoring, career guidance, support for an entrepreneurial, cultural or civic project, or mobility abroad, etc.
Young newcomers will benefit from new perspectives, as a result of which they otherwise would not have had to. A real boost to open the field of possibilities! Anyone over the age of 18 who is willing to share their experience, listening, advice or network can become a mentor. For us, everyone has something to offer or share that can benefit a young person. There is no “typical” mentor profile or criteria to be met. Just the desire to transmit and help.
For the department of Haute-Garonne, young taxpayers can get information from:
Léo Lagrange Sud-Ouest – 4bis, rue Paul Mesple – 31100 Toulouse – 05 34 60 87 00 –
Recall :
A popular education association recognized as being of public utility, heir to the optimistic philosophy of Léo Lagrange (undersecretary of state for sports and the organization of leisure in 1936), the Léo Lagrange Federation has been mobilizing since 1950 non-formal education and lifelong training to contribute to individual and collective emancipation and fight against all forms of discrimination. Attached to the non-profit and social utility of its actions, actor of the social and solidarity economy (ESS), it intervenes in the fields of animation, vocational training and early childhood and accompanies on the throughout the territory, local authorities and public actors in the implementation of educational, socio-cultural and integration policies. It has 6,500 employees, 900,000 users and beneficiaries, 3,000 volunteers, 337 affiliated associations, 55,000 members, 5 regional offices and more than 500 partner local authorities. For more information: www.leolagrange.org/ – www.nous-demain.fr