The Les Toiles Enchantées association brings the movies to children’s hospitals and specialized centers, projecting the latest films at the same time as they are released in the theatres, and often beforehand, to ill and disabled children and teenagers.
By giving them the opportunity to immerse themselves in a variety of carefully selected films, Les Toiles Enchantées gives young patients and disabled youth the chance to break up their routine, to escape, to be uplifted culturally or simply to be entertained, like other youngsters of their age – in a word, to “feel like everybody else”. The movies also help them fight feelings of isolation and discouragement by offering occasions to meet and make friends with other children.
In 2015, the AREVA Corporate Foundation financed 30 projections in hospitals near AREVA’s industrials sites : Lyon, Le Havre, Châlon-sur –Saône…But also in Nîmes, Montélimar and Cherbourg for the first time.
Partnership has been reinforced by 10 AREVA’s volunteers who help to transport the equipment.
In 2016, more than 800 children profit from these projections, with the support of the AREVA Corporate Foundation and AREVA’s volunteers.
The Charter of the Rights of Sick Children holds that sick children and teenagers also have the right to school, recreation, cultural and sports activities. Les Toiles Enchantées adheres to that principle by bringing the Cinema to the hospitals, where culture doesn’t traditionally show its face.
“When children can’t go to the movies, the movies come to them!” proclaims actor Lambert Wilson, ambassador for the Les Toiles Enchantées association.