Spring for the planet: the perfect time to act!

As a digital public service, the JeVeuxAider.gouv.fr platform underlines in its latest impact measure that the association is “a first step towards volunteer work and offers volunteers to identify the proper moment, cause and organisation” that will give the taste to act. According to the platform, an incentive to commit invites “women and men from all backgrounds, ages and socio-geographic classes to act together to make things work”.

Results above predictions

As such, at the initiative of the public volunteer platform and in collaboration with the Foundation for Nature and Men, this Spring will put the spotlights on actions to act for small or major ecologic challenges. “Whether it’s onsite or remotely, a voluntary action or over the long term, you choose your need” is the invitation launched y facilitators of Spring for the planet.

In 2023, with ecology being “a subject with infinite diversity”, the platform has listed more than 1,600 volunteers acting in 58 different départements, a number that went above predictions for the first Printemps pour la planète. Volunteers indeed worked to complete about 200 missions for over 100 different organisations, focused on two main ideas: popular awareness and protection of biodiversity, and two concrete actions: cleaning and manual work!

New actions to make a difference

This year, Spring for the planet strives to work on five new flagship subjects to produce more “concrete, local actions that make a difference”. You can get involved in:

• the big spring clean-up, with rubbish collections to “clean up natural and urban environments”;
• awareness-raising and mobilisation actions “around the challenges of tomorrow’s world”, with the organisation of round tables, stand events and awareness-raising activities in educational circles;
• the “gardening and rolled-up sleeves” operation or “the right to beauty” operation, to kickstart the creation of shared gardens, flowers, urban vegetable patches and all forms of greening;
• support animal cause, with volunteer missions “to take care of living creatures, whether they are feathered, furred, scaled, wild and domestic animals”;
• actions to “consume better” and “for a sustainable and healthy future”, such as setting up bicycle repair workshops and anti-food wastage initiatives.

Even more solidarity operations

As the platform notes, “the issue of protecting our environment is one that motivates and mobilises us more and more”. New initiatives are launched every day “all over France by proactive players who have been doing remarkable work for years”. So, even though the ecological campaign takes place mainly in April, the volunteer missions promoted during Printemps pour la planète can also take place at any time of the year.

JeVeuxAider.gouv.fr also works in other areas, in the same spirit of uninterrupted solidarity. At the end of last year, for example, the association ran its Décembre Ensemble (December Together) operation for the 2nd year running. Throughout the month of December, JeVeuxAider.gouv.fr, in partnership with Makesense and Emmaüs Solidarité, brought together a large number of solidarity players to tackle winter isolation.

On JeVeuxAider.gouv.fr, “every small gesture, every initiative can be linked to others, and produce big results”. And the platform also offers a four-question quiz to find “your next volunteer mission for the planet”.