Support Us
Help us raise 90 500 € to strengthen the psychosocial skills of 4,000 young people in 2025–2026 (confidence, emotional regulation, empathy, responsibility, cooperation).
Solidarity campaign
from December
1st to 15th, 2025
We still need €90,500 to meet the growing demand from schools and to provide high-quality support for the remainder of the 2025–2026 school year. Every donation counts. Every euro transforms a young person’s life—and the life of a classroom.
What We Do:
Cultivating Courage and Empathy in Young People
We support educational teams and young people to:
- Develop a renewed outlook on themselves, others, and their environment
- Strengthen their psychosocial skills
- Regain confidence, courage, and a sense of agency
- Become active players in the well-being of their community
Our approach creates lasting change in classroom dynamics, school climate, and young people’s relationships with themselves.
We implement year-long programs in schools
Combining:
🌱 Direct interventions by Gemmes with young people
Emotional, interpersonal, and cooperative workshops—moments where students learn to listen, understand, and find their place.
🌱 Support of eductional teams through SPARKS
Our innovative pedagogical program provides training and tools for educators, who then facilitate workshops themselves with students.
Because lasting change also depends on those who support young people every day.
Why support Gemmes?
Because a well-supported young person can serve others and change society
They are 12, 14, 18 years old.
Some lack confidence, others struggle to find their place, and some feel disconnected from their emotions or from others.
We intervene where everything can shift: in building their capacity to know themselves, respect themselves, and live together.
In a society where tensions are rising, Gemmes offers a space where every young person can learn to see differently, feel differently, act differently.
What teachers say
“If we want things to go well in the classroom, even before academic learning, there must be trust and all these psychosocial skills.”
Isabelle
Fundamental Workshops (ATF) Trainer
Meriem
History–Geography and Civic Education Teacher
- €500 → one day of SPARKS training and tools for a small educational team
- €1,500 → a full year-long Gemmes program for one class
- €10,000 → three months of operational coordination at Gemmes to strengthen field deployment
Every gesture opens space for transformation.
Every donation repairs, supports, illuminates, and uplifts.
What your donation allows
Now is the moment
Requests from schools are increasing.
The period we are experiencing (social tensions, emotional fragility among young people, burnout in educational teams) calls for immediate and profound responses.
A timely Gemmes intervention can change the course of a class.
By giving today, you become a direct actor in social, human, and educational change.
Thank you for standing with us
By supporting Gemmes, you offer young people something no one can take away: confidence, empathy, the ability to act, create, and connect.
You help build a fairer, more united, more caring world.
Thank you for your generosity.
Thank you for your trust.
Thank you for them.
Help us uncover the inner gems of every young person.
Make a tax-deductible donation
You can make a one-time contribution or become a monthly donor and support the lasting impact of our work.
Donations to Gemmes are eligible for tax reductions:
🇫🇷 In France
66% tax deduction
🇨🇭 In Switzerland
Through Swiss Philanthropy Foundation
🇺🇸 In the United States
Through Friends of Fondation de France
Want to learn more and explore how we can work together?
Contact:
Caroline Avanzo
President and founder
caroline.avanzo@gemmes.org