The "Regards sur l'étudiant aidant-e" (a look at the student caregiver) exhibition is a work of art by photographer Listo, assisted by Arthur Lorenzi.
What if awareness-raising were the key to helping student caregiver? That's the challenge we're taking up at Aix-Marseille Université.
The diversity of portraits of student carers at our university is highlighted in this exhibition!
Student caregivers have allowed themselves to be photographed in order to raise awareness of their place within our university, and more broadly, our society.
Caregivers are those students who provide regular, non-professional and unpaid help with activities of daily living or emotional support to a loved one who is losing their independence. The person being helped may be a family member, friend or neighbor whose loss of autonomy may be linked to age, illness or disability, whether physical or psychological. In France, this is the case for nearly 16% of students, in a wide variety of personal situations.
However, these students often don't identify with their role as "caregivers", and often forget about themselves, to the detriment of their own health, as they attempt to reconcile their academic and private lives.
The aim of this exhibition is to raise awareness among all students, and the wider university community, of the issues involved in "being a student and a caregiver".
As the theme of young carers remains little known to the general public, the promotion of these student portraits aims to gain recognition for these "young adult student caregivers" within our society.
Exhibition at the north medicine library
October 28 to November 22
