27th edition of Operation Yellow Coins
The launch of the 27th edition of the Yellow Parts operation kicked off on Wednesday 6th January at the Saint-Denis Hospital Center in the Paris region. On the program: concert, flash mob and tasting of giant galette with Bernadette Chirac , initiator of the Operation and the godfather of the Yellow Coins, Christian Karembeu. In 26 years, fundraising has recovered 85 million euros and funded 8,200 projects for children and adolescents hospitalized. The money raised is used to create buildings ("houses") to best help families and children hospitalized to live the difficult moment of hospitalization of a child. Thus, the operation of the Yellow Parts subsidizes many places of life in hospital .
Women's House: € 50,000
The end of the construction is scheduled for this summer but this great initiative is already much talk about it. The women's house located near the Delafontaine Hospital in Saint Denis, is a place of welcome, listening and exchange for battered women or victims of sexual mutilation. Family planning also has its offices and will be at the services of women for screening for sexually transmitted diseases, assistance for abortion (IVG) or the management of infertility. The Yellow Parts operation has, for its part, financed the spaces hosting the children of the mothers who come to consult, up to 50 000 €.
APHM-Nord Hospital Marseille: € 500,000
The fundraising subsidizes the development of a reception unit and 5 beds for teenage patients at the APHM-Nord Hospital in Marseille for 500,000 euros . The goal: to help teenagers in crisis.
Necker Hospital: € 488,742
In 2015, a teenagers-young adults transition program was set up at the Necker Hospital. To help sick adolescents become young adults and thus transitioning between pediatric and adult services, a dedicated space for this aspect of life in the Hospital is being set up. to an information device. The Yellow Parts operation is financing this project for € 488,742 .
Departmental House of adolescents of the Sarthe at Le Mans: 424 895 €
Inaugurated in 2010, the departmental department of teenagers of the Sarthe located in Le Mans which became too narrow with its 280 m2, knew an enlargement of its surface of 400m2. This expansion allowed, last spring, to have premises really adapted to the teenagers in pain. Amount of help from Yellow Parts? € 424,895 .
House of the parents of Dijon: 420 000 €
Here again, the Maison des Parents has had enlargements. Opened in June 2000 and comprising 18 rooms for parents visiting their children hospitalized in Dijon, 20 additional rooms were added in 2008. Today, the project of a third extension is underway, with the construction of a new building of 620 m2 and the redevelopment of 116 m2, which would accommodate 20 more families. Through this project, moms have the opportunity to sleep next to their hospitalized children. The support of the Yellow Parts amounts to 420 000 €.
House of respite: 300 000 €
A respite home helps the relatives of patients and addicts who are over-solicited by providing them with the necessary support. Already existing in several countries such as Belgium, Canada or Germany, the Paris Hospitals Foundation has decided to fund 300 000 € with the Yellow Parts for the opening of the first House of Respite intergenerational and multi-pathologies In Lyon.
Other, less significant, funding has been put in place by the Pièces Jaunes operation, such as the creation of places for exchanges, entertainment to entertain sick children and their parents, and pain pumps for children. Children's Hospital Marseille.
The fundraising takes place from January 6th to February 13th, 2016 in all the offices of Post of France and on the site of the Yellow Parts thanks to the virtual piggy bank on line . This year, some 2.5 million piggy banks are customized not by Kanako but by the designer Jörg Mailliet, more reason to get rid of your yellow coins!