How do you endure confinement as a pensioner? Jean BOURGOUIN (Agriculture, 1973, Beauvais) tells you

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Jean BOURGOUIN (Agriculture, 1973, Beauvais), former UniLaSalle Alumni Director and former Commercial Director at Novartis Animal Health and now retired, tells us about his confinement.

"One might think that by ceasing to work, retirees are accustomed to confinement.
Retired doesn't mean, at least not to me, any loss of social role and investment in younger people.
From the beginning of my retirement I have been involved in volunteer work both at the Red Cross and the Alumni Office.
For nearly seven years, I have been involved in two associations focused on helping young people in high schools with Énergie Jeunes (prevention of dropping out of school by promoting autonomy, perseverance and self-esteem) and in high schools with Egee (job search techniques and job interview simulations).

Of course, since the closure of the schools, all these activities have stopped.

However, we remain in contact with our partners by email (project managers in high schools, senior education advisor in middle schools) to support them and to envisage the continuation of the interventions, before the end of the school year, which allows us to remain positive with glimmers of hope.

In addition, within the Energie Jeunes association, we maintain telephone contacts between volunteers, including telephone meetings, once a week. These contacts, between us, allow us to keep in touch, to help each other morally and even to work on the intervention modules in order to improve them for next year.

In this time of troubled times due to the lack of interventions in schools, I garden, which allows me to exercise physically and improve my living environment, as shown in the photo that I am enclosing as a wink of an eye.
Good luck to you all, take care and respect the rules."

If you wish, for more information:
www.energiejeunes.fr
www.egee.asso.fr

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