AFEV Montpellier · Volunteer Mentor
Supporting children and teenagers toward educational success
Context
Social and educational inequalities can hold back young people's personal development, self-confidence and academic success.
Through its mentoring programme, AFEV supports equal opportunity by pairing volunteers with young people to offer individualised support, built on listening, trust and consistency. As a volunteer mentor, I supported primary and middle school students.
My role
Volunteer mentor, paired regularly with primary and middle school students, in a relationship of trust built over time.
My main contributions
Individualised support for young people
- Building their self-confidence and encouraging independence
- Supporting their motivation at school
- Fostering their personal development
Supporting educational success
- Helping organise their schoolwork and developing learning methods
- Cultural openness and conversations around their aspirations
- Recognising their progress
Building a relationship of trust
- Adapting my support to each personality
- Encouraging students to voice their difficulties and celebrating successes, however small
The essentials
- Population reached
- Primary and middle school students
- Key skills
- Mentoring, active listening, teaching methods
- Partners involved
- AFEV · national mentoring programme
- Impact
- Contributing to equal opportunity through human, personalised support
Results
- Regular support for primary and middle school students
- Building relationships of trust that foster young people's engagement
- Contributing to a national programme for equal opportunity
Skills mobilised
What this experience taught me
This experience taught me that educational support goes far beyond academic help. By building a relationship of trust and recognising progress, it's possible to make a lasting contribution to a young person's personal development and educational path.