Lecture et Compagnie

LECTURE ET COMPAGNIE wishes, through reading and intellectual exchange, to bring human warmth to people who may no longer be "economically active", but who remain quite active in their personal choices.

Readers visit hospitals, clinics, convalescent homes, EMS, but also AT HOME.

Our concept : to bring human warmth, pleasure and entertainment to alleviate loneliness, while continuing to develop the intellectual faculties of those who, alone, are in danger of no longer caring.

Our means : readings of course ! But also board games, Scrabble, crossword puzzles, arrow puzzles, checkers, chess, card games... Anything that can encourage intellectual exchange and reflection from people who may no longer be "economically active" but who remain quite lucid in their personal choices.

Many people find themselves immobilized for an indefinite period, following a temporary or more serious problem, or simply due to their advanced age ;they get bored, not knowing what to do with their new state.

Thus, convalescence or old age, which should be a positive and enriching time when everyone could enjoy more time for themselves, often engenders great sadness and even guilt that can lead to a sort of intellectual, mental and moral abandonment towards a life that would no longer be ours.

To read is to encounter, through the intermediary of the text, another thought, another sensibility and to dialogue with it.

The readers of Lecture et Compagnie lend their voices on request- to share the emotion of a novel, the suspense of a detective story, the interest of a biography, the pleasure of a tale, the content of a newspaper article, a magazine or any other work whose choice remains that of the listener.

For good reading quality, this will be done inthe reader's or reader's mother tongue.

Lecture et Compagnie is aimed at elderly people,but also at any person, whatever their age, visually impaired or blind, ill, injured, disabled, suffering from solitude and simply wanting human and intellectual exchange, whether regular or occasional.

Our readers go to ems, convalescent homes, Foyer handicap, hospitals,clinics, but alsohome, where many often find themselves very isolated, despite, in the best of cases, regular visits from family, nurses and various home helpers.

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Association Lecture et Compagnie

P.O. Box 586 - 1211 Geneva 4

 

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I would like to benefit from your services

Iwish to support the Association by becoming member :

Individual       CHF    30.- / year

Couple           CHF    50.- / year

Institution       CHF 100.- / year

CCP 12-26211-6

Lecture et Compagnie also offersGift-Vouchers for friends and families who can't visit their loved ones as often as they'd like, for reasons of work, schedule or distance. The price is the same, only the presentation differs as the listener receives a Gift Voucher for their reading or gaming session.

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The individual session of 2 hours

"...he had just promoted it to

the superior function of reader...

First, you'll read to me

books I love.

I'll see them again through you..."

 Bloy

at home or in an institution

amounts to 50 francs (+tpg)

People on avs or AI,

for the benefit of spc,

pay only 10 francs (+tpg)

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Lecture et Compagnie

Boulevard Carl-Vogt 55  - 1205 Genève

Tel. 022 321 44 56

 CCP 12-26211-6 / 17-151317-9 (Fonds de solidarité)

www.lectureetcompagnie.ch

courrier@lectureetcompagnie.ch

The group session,organized

at home or in an institution (in agreement with the animation department)

amountsto 10 francs per person

(+ 1 tpg per session)