From November 14 to 20, European Disability Employment Week (EDEW) took place. An entire week dedicated to raising awareness of often overlooked conditions, particularly visual and hearing impairments.
On this occasion, we were able to bring together our employees from different sites for several activities:
• “Let’s sign together”workshop : a fun introduction to the basics of sign language using a card game, organized at all our sites.
• The Île-de-France Guide Dogs Association visited our Ivry-sur-Seine site to raise employee awareness of the difficulties faced by visually impaired or blind people on a daily basis, through a presentation of the association and its missions, and a demonstration. We were fortunate to have a demonstration by one of the association's dog trainers with Slam, one of the dogs in training. Also present was Eric Obstetar, Logistics Director at Grands Moulins de Paris, the foster family for Taïka, another dog in training to become a guide dog. It was an opportunity for all employees to learn about the work the association does to help and support people with visual impairments. In addition, a donation drive was also organized to benefit the association.
• Our Marseille site has also organized a bake sale to raise funds forA.P.A.R, the Association for Autism Prevention and Research.
We also took advantage of SEEPH 2022 to set up an internal competition to illustrate diversity as part of our disability policy.
We gave our employees the opportunity to participate in the creation of our "Diversity" logo, as our priority is to be committed to diversity and inclusion across all our sites.
A look back at this enjoyable and informative week at our sites:
