Pour une Planète sans Frontières
Pour défendre le droit de comprendre et d'être compris
Pour une Planète sans Frontières (PUPSF), an international solidarity association under the law of 1901, was created in October 2009 in order to meet certain challenges, such as being understood in a way that allows any foreign person, regardless of their origin or level of resources, to defend their rights on French territory.
With this in mind, the PUPSF team has developed a specific approach to these challenges, providing lawyers/translators who speak the language of the law in order to be understood by their interlocutors. Understanding and being understood are at the heart of the concerns of the legal information offered in several languages.
As a human-sized association, PUPSF is able to call upon over one hundred volunteer translators and legal researchers for its partners located throughout France.
The head office of PUPSF is in Paris. PUPSF has 12 local offices: Chambéry, Clermont Ferrand, Grenoble, Lyon, Metz, Poitiers, Quimper, Rennes, Rouen, Saint-Brieuc, Toulouse and Tours.
OUR PROJECTS
to defend the right to understand and be understood
France 2 Télématin, Une idée à la minute, presentation of the PUPSF association
OUR PARTNERS
OUR SPONSORS
Gil ALMA
Gil ALMA ambassadeur Pour une Planète sans Frontières
Gil Alma, know for his role in "Nos Chers Voisins", a popular hit on TF1. For more than 10 years, Gil Alma has been playing roles in movies, on TV, and on stage, notably in his One-Man shows.
Gil Alma has the leading role in the France 2 police series "César Wagner" where he plays a hypochondriac cop.
Gil currently finished filming alongside Franck Dubosc and Alexandra Lamy in " Le Sens de la famille " and in " Do you do you St-Tropez " alongside Depardieu, Clavier, Poelvoorde... 2 big comedies that were released in 2020.
Louis Philippe DALEMBERT
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Louis Philippe Dalembert is a writer, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure in Port-au-Prince, a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme in Paris, and the author of a doctoral thesis in comparative literature at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.
A former resident of the Villa Medici in Rome, Louis Philippe Dalembert is multilingual and now lives between Paris and his native country. He has also lived in Jerusalem, Berlin, Bern, Milwaukee (United States) and in sub-Saharan Africa.
He writes short stories, poetry, essays and novels. Louis-Philippe Dalembert's work is strongly influenced by the themes of childhood and wandering.
His penultimate novel, Avant que les ombres s'effacent (Prix Orange 2017, finalist for the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française and the Prix Médicis), is inspired by a little-known historical fact: the passing, in 1939, of a decree authorizing the Haitian state to issue passports and safe-conducts to Jews who requested them. With humor, he tells the story of Dr. Ruben Schwarzberg's wanderings from Berlin to Cuba, via Paris, until his arrival in Haiti.
Mur Méditerranée, his ninth novel in French, was a finalist for the 2019 Landerneau Prize. This novel, which was in the first selection for the Goncourt, won the 2019 French Language Prize. It was also selected for the Goncourt des lycéens, the Jean-Giono and André Malraux prizes. With this latest work, Louis Philippe Dalembert looks at the migration crisis through three female figures: a Syrian, an Eritrean and a Nigerian.
Maé-Bérénice MEITE
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Maé Bérénice Méité, ambassadrice de Pour une Planète sans Frontières
Both on and off the ice, I want to use my influence to raise awareness, share messages, and support causes that are important to me.
Maé-Bérénice Méité is a 27 year old high-level athlete. Born in Paris, raised in the suburbs of Paris, and currently training in Florida, she started skating at the age of 5, in Vitry sur Seine.
Six times French figure skating champion, she had the honor to represent France all over the world, on the European, World and Olympic stages. She is also pursuing a master's degree in Marketing & Business Development, with the aim of developing her own consulting company in the years to come.
Ready to face life's challenges, her curiosity, her energy and her desire to help others are the essence and the motivation that allow her to move forward on a daily basis.
Meet the team
Alexandra HALLE
Founder of Pour une Planète sans Frontières
Alexandra holds a Master's degree in private law from the University of Assas and an LLM in European legal studies from the University of Glasgow. She is responsible for the Ile de France, Auvergne Rhône Alpes and Brittany regions. She is fluent in French, English, German and Italian.
Suzanna ARZUMANIAN
Co-manager of the Grenoble branch
Suzanna holds a degree in International Relations and a Master's degree in International Law from the University of Grenoble. She is fluent in French, Russian, English and Armenian.
Alevtina TUKTAROVA
Manager of the Rouen branch
Alevtina, a Russian national, has a Bachelor's degree in Language Science, with a specialization in the Didactics of French as a Foreign Language, obtained at the University of Rouen. She studied in Caen and is continuing her studies for a Master's degree at the University of Rouen. She is fluent in Russian and French.
Marylin NGOLO
Manager of the Tours branch
Marylin holds a degree in political philosophy and a Master's degree in political science from the University of Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée. She is fluent in French and English.
Imane HAGGAG
Manager of the Poitiers branch
Imane holds a PhD in language didactics from the University of Alexandria in Egypt and a Master's degree in Media Engineering for Education from the University of Poitiers. She is a sworn translator in Arabic and a court expert at the Court of Appeal of Poitiers. She is fluent in French, Classical Arabic and Arabic dialect (Egyptian, Maghrebian, Sudanese and Syrian-Lebanese).
Abdul MATEEN
Volunteer in "service civique" in Paris
Originally from Afghanistan, he has an intermediate level French language diploma from the university Paris Saclay. He plans to study industrial IT. He speaks Persian, Pashto, English, Urdu, English and French.
Mahdi MIRZAD
Volunteer in "service civique" in Paris
Student at DU Passerelle university (French language diploma) at INALCO, Mahdi studied meteorology at Kabul university. Mahdi speaks French, Persian and Pashto.
Gomathi BOOPATHI
Volunteer in "service civique" in Paris
Currently a Master's student in literature at the University of La Sorbonne Paris IV, Abdou assists the association in dealing with audiences of Swahili dialects (East African point) and in digital communication. He speaks Comorian, English and French.
Madelyn CHOI WEIR
Volunteer in "service civique" in Paris
After studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, Léa is a student of International Affairs, Psychology and Philosophy at the AUP American University of Paris. She is bilingual in English and French.