“Rewarding concrete local initiatives”: the Lions Club Sète Doyen launches the 4th edition of its major call for projects

David Farran and Michel Bodart are at the initiative of this call for projects. – V.G.

The Sète Doyen Lions Club intends to support, once again, innovative and sustainable solutions in the cultural, social, environmental, disability and social and medico-social action sectors in the region. The call is launched until April 27.

For the fourth year, the Lions Club Sète Doyen is relaunching its major "call for projects", intended to encourage project leaders to approach it, and thus structure the grant requests which are made to him. "The objective is to support, accompany, promote and reward associations, companies, or individuals, who have a project, explain David Farran, the president of the local delegation, and Michel Bodart, historic member of the office. The idea is to bring out innovative and sustainable solutions, in the cultural, social, environmental, disability and social and medico-social action sectors, in our territory. "

In three editions, the Lions Club Sète Doyen distributed nearly 20,000 € to ten local initiatives

Made up of 23 members, the local service club created, in 2020, this event which rewards promising and concrete projects. "It's not humanitarian. It’s first and foremost humanism, continues Michel Bodart. We are not a bank, we do not limit ourselves to handing over a check. There needs to be a real project behind it. We know where the money goes. The question we ask is not "How much do you want ?", but "What do you need ?&quot ;. In fact, in three editions, the Lions Club Sète Doyen distributed nearly 20,000 € to ten local initiatives.

Concrete actions

"We have received 46 files since 2020 and supported ten beneficiaries in the sectors of disability, child psychiatry, culture, gerontology…&amp ;quot;, supports David Farran. Winners such as Espace Brassens for its tablets for the hearing impaired, the creation of the child psychiatry unit at the Sète hospital, a boat helm adapted for Cape Town, a trolley mobile activity at the Pergolines nursing home, a cycle repair workshop at the IME La Corniche, the purchase of tricycles for autistic people from # 39;Handicap Cap 34, or the creation of a board game around the particularities of autism with Handi Action…

Ary Abittan performing at the Molière theater

To finance this call for projects, the service club will organize an evening at the Molière theater on Friday March 29, featuring comedian Ary Abittan. The ticketing is open. Files for the call for projects must be submitted to aap-lions-setedoyens.org until April 27.

Ticket sales for the Ary Abittan show at the Théâtre Molière, on March 29, at the Sète tourist office and at the usual points of sale. Prices: from 22 to 39 euros.