B’A’ba Solidarité seeks to rally volunteer employees with a view to helping the employees of Samsic Propreté, a TF1 cleaning services provider, to learn or improve French through tutoring and individual support, including assistance in weekly homework assignments.

Commited employees !
As part of the tutoring initiative, 41 TF1 employees have committed to supporting one of the 17 employees in their eight-month training course, consisting of 250 hours taught by the INFREP organisation, with a view to obtaining a DELF diploma in French language studies** officially validating their French language-learning achievements.

The tutors play a key role in the success of the tutored person’s training. Organised into two- or three-person teams and working on an alternating basis (an employee may have two or three different tutors), they devote one hour a week to their tutored person, during which they work on the acquisition of knowledge through homework assistance and course revision. They are equipped with an individual “liaison notebook” that they fill in each week to keep track of the topics covered, to be worked on or reviewed in future sessions. The tutors have committed to working with the tutored individual in question until the end of the training course, in November 2015. Through their support, the tutors help to boost the confidence of the employees and acknowledge the efforts made in their professional training course.

*Created in 2013 on an initiative by seven large companies (La Poste, Orange, Manpower, L’Oréal, Publicis, TF1 and SNCF), the B.A.ba Solidarité organisation, recognised as a public-interest structure, brings together a network of employers committed to the fight against illiteracy in the professional world. 

**The DELF diploma (short for “Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française”) is awarded by the French Ministry of Education. Valid for life and recognised internationally, it officially validates that a person has learnt the French language. In addition, the DELF diploma can enable individuals to study and work in and emigrate to a French-speaking country.