Reception women and girls in difficulty (depressives, the suicidal, the isolated or lonely, victims of violence...)

• Reception of persons in difficulty by appointment : Listening, providing information, orientation, accompanying people through their various administrative processes, finding lodging or centers for girls and women in tumultuous familial situations, helping people to enroll or re-enroll into scholastic institutions, assisting in the construction of C.V.s (résumés), helping girls and women to join the work force, building up files of naturalization, and helping with inquiries into the status of administrative affairs and requests for the expedition of such processes.

• The Association has become a space for discussion, exchanges and meetings. This contact breaks down the isolation in which these girls and women find themselves and facilitates the expression of and reflection upon the real discriminations they experience in their families and in society.

• Psychological Support Services : 
  Five volunteer psychotherapists each donate four hours of their time per week to work with those in need of such services.

• Meetings/debates—the number of participants is limited to a maximum of ten persons in order to facilitate the expression of the opinions of the participants on the subject of a book (e.g. Codependence (La Codépendance) and The Cinderella Complex (Le Complexe de Cendrillon) by D. Dowling, The Silence of the Children of Immigrants (Le mutisme chez enfants de migrants) by Zerdalia KS Dahoun, Healing the Wounds in the Father-Daughter Relationship (Guérir la blessure dans le relation père-fille) by Linda Schierse Leonard).

• Monthly "photolanguage" workshops : A method of communicating to groups by way of a number of photographs assembled to provoke a certain reaction. By expressing themselves through their choice of photographs, photolanguage allows the participants to learn about personal expression, to listen to and become aware of their own point of view.

• Project of international solidarity with Madagascar : Working in the context of International Youth Solidarity, of which the goal is the renovation of the pediatric and maternal services at the Hospital of Nosy-Bé in Madagascar. With the participation of a dozen young people between the ages of 18 and 25 who come from areas described as "difficult" by the department of Seine-Saint-Denis.

• Offer the use of a room and a computer where young people can do their homework or prepare their C.V.s (résumés)

• The Association was chosen from amongst the Associations of Seine-Saint-Denis to take part in a departmental committee for youth, put together by the Director of D.D.J.S. and the Prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis in order to find solutions to the difficulties encountered by youth.

• The actions of the Association have often contributed to the reestablishment of the connection between girls and their families. Certain girls (the warriors of the Association) who keep to their studies succeed and have a positive influence over the younger ones. We have noticed that certain young women who are out of school and/or unemployed have once again taken up their studies or continued their professional lives after having passed through the Association and having participated in the activities there.

• The subjects that we address in our discussions bring them to feel able to take the lead. They are listened to, respected, valued and reassured. They encounter journalists, writers, researchers, and representatives of the French administration—people whom they would not have had the opportunity to encounter otherwise. The meetings and discussions that they participate in with all types of people increase their self-confidence and help them to open their minds.

• Certain of them enroll in the psychological support service.

• After the reestablishment of the connection between the parents and the children; the parents thank the Association and permit their daughter to frequent it.

• Some young girls who have gained the trust of the Association can come do their homework at the Association at night. The more educated help the less educated. Frequently they cannot be helped by their parents, who are most often only quasi-literate, or they live in apartments where the crowding is such that it makes studying impossible.

• Maintaining contact with the girls and women after the solving of their initial problems, which leads to an increase in volunteers.

• Interest is increasing in scholastic institutions regarding our hands-on, grassroots action. We direct our interns to the schools Louis Michel d’Epinay-sur-Seine and Suger of Saint-Denis, as well as to the University of Saint-Denis and Bobigny.