13.04.2021

SOPRONEM is committed to ESAT – Les ateliers caravelle

Since 2018, SOPRONEM Nemours has strengthened its partnership with the Ateliers Caravelle by integrating on a daily basis two workers with disabilities into its teams.

Zoom on… Les ateliers caravelle

In Nemours, Seine-et-Marne region, the Ateliers Caravelle, created in 1973, now welcomes 119 disabled workers, recognized as disabled by the MDPH. The worker is admitted to the structure after having completed a discovery training course and expressed his or her desire to work there. 30 professional supervisors accompany them on a daily basis

Targets

To allow access to a professional life for people with temporary or permanent disabilities, who are unable to carry out a professional activity in the ordinary environment, thanks to a structure and adapted working conditions
To participate in the development of their overall autonomy for a better integration in social life
To develop with the persons we welcome, an individual project in which they are players
To allow those who have the capacity to do so, to integrate the ordinary work environment thanks to an adapted support.

Working activities

Subcontracting: enveloping, mailings, labeling, filming, packing in cartons or bags, small mechanical assemblies, recovery of non-conforming production
Perfume packing with a production of 1 000 bottles and 6 000 samples/day
Manufacturing pallets (wood), custom-made trays, ranging from unit production to larger series (about 700 pallets/day).
The maintenance of parks and gardens, the creation of environment, the plantations for a clientele of companies, local authorities and individuals.

Production is not a goal in itself but more a pedagogical tool and an activity that creates a ritualised and reassuring framework. Work tasks are sufficiently diversified to allow each worker to find his or her own place within a set of activities. Although the economic activity of the company must achieve a certain level of profitability (in order to pay the direct remuneration of the workers and to maintain its production facilities), the establishment remains above all a medico-social structure.