Two young supporters of Olympique de Marseille, enrolled in a school project for equal opportunities will meet the Prime Minister. The initiative promotes social diversity in Marseille.
An unexpected trajectory. As part of the “Youth Meetings”, around twenty young people were able to meet Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, this Friday, March 3, at Matignon. A meeting, in the company of six other ministers, to discuss daily life and equal opportunities. Among the participants: two Marseillais, members of the Olympique de Marseille supporters club, the South Winners. They are part of the Protis program, which prepares high school OM supporters to take the oral examinations, starting with the baccalaureate. If they have been designated, it is because they illustrate the social and territorial divide in the Marseille city and a method to combat it.
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It was Jules Sitruk, a student at HEC and one of the pillars of the South Winners, which has some 7,500 supporters in the south corner of the Vélodrome, who had the idea for this program. “In our group, we have the supporter side at the Vélodrome, and a side, outside the stadium, which is the commitment in favor of Marseille. We really wanted to build a social project to reach all of Marseille and all social backgrounds, so that it motivates them to give the best of themselves. It’s a Marseille union to attract all the young people of Marseille to the top”, he aspires.
“When we talk to young people who we train for oral tests in demanding competitions or exams, in the end, we talk to people we know very, very well, since we spend our time transmitting what we know about our soldiers and we spend a lot of time training them.”
Pascal Facon, general of the armiesat franceinfo
Since the start of the school year, Protis has been mobilizing champions from the Cercle des nageurs de Marseille to work on the mind, business leaders, but also an army corps general. Each one brings his expertise for the expression and the attitude in front of the examiners. Pascal Facon, the soldier, appreciates with this concept, “the idea of mixing, of cooperation in the field of society and of cohesion between different groups of individuals who are not necessarily led to meet.”
Abdel Karim Benguedi in first at the Marcel Pagnol high school in Marseille, enrolled in this Protis preparation since September, accompanied Jules Sitruk to Matignon to explain the interest of the formula. “I don’t come from a super-privileged background.he says, so it allows us to have lots of advice like knowing how to present yourself well since the requirement is at the maximum. And then, above all, there is this idea of mutual aid.”
Mutual aid, links, community: this program, presented to Elisabeth Borne, reflects what the Vélodrome stadium is, a place that brings together all the populations of Marseille and brings them together.