MAISONS SAINT JOSEPH
Versailles, France
DESCRIPTION
MAISONS SAINT JOSEPH
The purpose of this project is to improve the support, care and living conditions of adults with mental disabilities, mostly Down’s syndrome, welcomed in two homes in Versailles.
Confronted by the lack of facilities dedicated to people with mental disabilities, Maisons St Joseph set up two homes in 2007 with a family atmosphere to welcome adults with mental disabilities in the heart of the city where they can carry out their activities. These homes, which currently host 14 adults, help them to gain autonomy and pursue personal development goals in the long term.
Maisons St Joseph is constantly trying to improve the quality of the support provided to these young adults by adapting the home equipment and providing new facilities in which they can express their creativity.
IMPACT / MAIN INDICATORS
Expected results include:
• In Viroflay gravel the alley surrounding the girls’ house and leading to the garden shed (ensure safer and easier access to the garden shed).
• Complete renovation of a bathroom in the boy’s house in Versailles in order to allow convenient specific daily hair treatment for one resident.
LOCAL
PARTNER
Selection
Duration
Project selected in September 2020
Duration: 5 years
Financed
by
The Comgest Foundation
COMMENT FROM THE AMBASSADOR
Philippe Lebeau
Maisons Saint Joseph transparently liaised with us in order to kindly ask if it would be possible to delay the pre-approved outdoor works and equipment in the boys’ house in Versailles in order to switch to a more urgent project. It has been agreed to view as more urgent a complete bathroom renovation in order to allow, amongst other things, more comfortable daily medical hair treatment.
I visited the house and the bathroom before and after the renovation works and have been satisfied with the way the project has been handled.
We are in constant contact with Maisons Saint Joseph to follow the progress of the different projects and to make sure the donations are wisely used. A dinner will be hosted in Versailles in June 2024 with a couple of Comgest’s volunteers.