With its six factories, it produces 8 million parts for the automotive industry by inserting the disabled.
To reindustrialise France, there are no big or small projects, but initiatives, sometimes discreet, which are just waiting to be developed. The one carried by Jean-Marc Richard, the president of the Amipi-Bernard Vendre Foundation, has been proof of this for fifty years. This structure, recognized as being of public utility in 2007, has six production, apprenticeship and integration factories (UPAI) in the Centre-Val de Loire and Pays de la Loire regions. These sites, specialized in the automotive sector, are dedicated to the cutting of wires and the assembly of electrical wiring.
Currently, they employ 900 people, including 750 with cognitive disabilities (schizophrenia, trisomy 21, etc.). They have the status of adapted company (EA) and receive job aid to compensate for a lower return (70% on average) than in a traditional company. The foundation has the particularity of relying on a scientific method, mimetic psychology, which places people…
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