9% of 18/65 year-olds are illiterate*. Illiteracy affects over 3 million people in France. Aware that basic skills are essential to finding employment, Société Générale’s Solidarity Foundation is committed to helping those in difficulty acquire literacy skills.

It acts on two levels: the Foundation supports basic skills workshops and trains trainers and disseminates best practice.

*Agence Nationale de lutte contre l'Illettrisme (national literacy agency)

In 2008, the Foundation supported the following associations:

ADEFOR - Basic skills workshops for persons in difficulty
AEPCR - Writing and oral expression workshops
AIFP - Developing basic skills
Association des Paralysés de France - Promoting literacy with people with disabilities
Atout Majeur - Women's workshops
Avenir Saint-Louisien - DILF (basic French language certificate) examination centre
Avenir Toulouse - Socio-linguistic workshops
Brigades Vertes - Developing the basic skills of young people working in professional integration projects
Cassiopé - Literacy and support for administrative formalities
Centre France Asie - Training voluntary literacy teachers
CFIP - Formation, Consolidating language skills
Clair Logis - Pedagogical workshops
CLE - Funding the job of a trainer
Crésus Alsace - Raising awareness of banking services and budget management
Culture et Liberté Nord - Training of trainers
Ecole Normale Sociale - Literacy workshops
Entente du Vaucluse - Acquiring educational material
Fédération Léo Lagrange - Socio-linguistic workshops
Institut de Recherche et d'Education Permanente - Developing a centre to host writing, reading, mathematics and integration workshops
Langue et Partage - Training volunteers
L.I.F.E - Literacy workshop
Lire en scène - Creating social links via book workshops
L'Oiseau Lire - Insertion and integration by tackling illiteracy
Messidor - Integration programme people with learning and literacy issues
MJC Monnaie - Developing the skills necessary for professional integration (French, word processing, methodology)
Mouv'en FLE - Literacy workshops
Nomade Production - “Slam workshop”: “When writing talks”
Parcours d'Exil - Literacy workshop and integrating victims of torture
Rapsodys - Neuro-psychological support and dictation and text-to-speech software training
Tôt ou t'art - Getting integration associations involved in books (donations, visits from storytellers, writing workshops)