Event

Date: June 19, 2024 from 5:30pm to 8pm,

Venue: Ministry of Solidarity and Health (14 Avenue Duquesne)

The impact of poverty can be measured from an early age. From the age of 2, children from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to suffer from poor health and learning difficulties than children from affluent backgrounds. These gaps are the first gear in the terrible mechanism of social determinism in our country, where it takes 6 generations to rise out of poverty. What can be done to reduce these gaps?

With the support of six other foundations (Okola, the Fonds de dotation bio Mérieux pour l’éducation, the Fondation Lama, the Fondation Pierre Bellon, the Fondation Rothschild and the Fondation TotalEnergies), Break Poverty Foundation has carried out a study over the last 9 months to provide concrete answers to inform public action and private sponsors.

To mark the publication of this book, we are organizing an event on June 19 in the presence of Madame Sarah El Haïry, Minister Delegate for Children, Youth and the Family, at the Ministry of Solidarity and Health (14 Avenue Duquesne) from 5:30 pm to 8 pm.

Program :

17:30 – Welcome of participants

6:00 pm to 6:10 pm – Introduction by Sarah El Haïry, French Minister for Children, Youth and Families

6:10pm to 6:30pm – Full presentation of the study by Christophe Sanchez, Director of Innovation, Break Poverty Foundation

18:30 – Round-table discussion on the theme “Inequalities from the earliest age” with :

• Julien Damon, Associate Professor at Sciences Po, specialist in poverty issues ;
• Elisabeth Laithier, President of the Comité filière Petite Enfance ;
• Julie Poissant, Quebec specialist in early childhood, associated with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM);
• Claire Gougeon, in charge of parenting issues at ACEPP (Association des Collectifs Enfants Parents Professionnels);
• Coline Dumoulin, Head of the parenting program at the French Red Cross;
• Julie Picard-Bodard, expert in public health and PMI (Protection Maternelle Infantile) support;

The conference will be followed by a cocktail reception.

Places are limited, so please register by clicking on the following link.

We look forward to sharing this moment with you.

From the Break Poverty team.

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