What Is The State of Lonelines in France Today?

Per a 2013 UNICEF report, for children in France, 13.5% feel they are not well integrated within their families, 20.5% feel they are not well integrated within their neighborhood, and 16.7% feel they are not well integrated within their school environment. These statistics result in identified increase in loneliness of children in one-parent families and broken families.

Why Should We Care?

Children are the future of tomorrow. The lack of self-confidence from the minimal support some may receive during these difficult times can shape their mentality and greatly impact how they view relationships and deal with challenges in the future. Moreover, children of divorce are also particularly at risk for loneliness, they may feel like few understand their unique hurts and frustrations, and they may not feel comfortable expressing their true feelings even to people they love

What Do We Want To Do About It?

Our objective is to support children between the ages of 14-18 years in France feeling loneliness in a secure manner by involving relevant stakeholders (parents, schools, and kids), affected by evolving or broken family structures, knowing that the this is a very sensitive stage in their lives and access to resource is not equal for all.

How Are We Going To Do It?

Knowing that loneliness can be a deciding factor in a child’s future potential, we want to address the issue at the earliest time possible. As children spend a significant part of their time at school, integrating the solution within the academic environment is the most effective in terms of outreach and implementation. Our proposed solution is a methodology along with a software platform to enable, track, and aid the implementation, and efficacy of the methodology.

To learn more about our proposed approach we invite you to take a look at our note of intent, and presentation.