Paris, 2 February 2017
Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (BSF) and Fondation CNP Assurances are joining forces to create a mobile information and prevention space focusing on healthcare. Based on the BSF Ideas Box model, the winner of the presidential contest "La France s'engage", a new concept in the fight against health-related social inequality will be developed through this partnership.
Through its Ideas Box, a fully functional mobile media library, Bibliothèques Sans Frontières is offering vulnerable populations access to quality cultural and educational resources. The four modules of the Ideas Box can fit on two crates, and can be set up anywhere in less than 20 minutes to create a 100m2 cultural space, where young people and their families can find an internet connection, tablets featuring educational applications, computers, a collection of books and magazines as well as informative videos.
In its commitment to reducing health-related social inequality, Fondation CNP Assurances has announced a partnership with BSF to make use of the Ideas Box model to promote healthcare. This new concept will mainly address young people and their families from isolated rural areas and priority education zones designated by the city, and will be an innovative tool to support the public health policies of local communities. The educational content of this Ideas Box will be chosen by Fondation CNP Assurance's experts, in association with the BSF teams. It will feature prevention messages about the following issues: nutrition, drugs and addictions, sexual education, unhappiness, sleep, hearing damage, pain management, emergency response, healthcare rights, juvenile diseases and others. Fondation CNP Assurances will spend €230K per year on the project.