École Saint-Joseph
École Saint-Joseph is a French Catholic school ruled by the Ministry of National Education and based in Solesmes, Nord department, within the Hauts-de-France bordering Belgium. It was founded in 1892 by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai (French: "Archidiocèse de Cambrai") of the Latin Rite and is attached to the Cambrai - Le Cateau-Cambrésis educational district contractually regulated by Lille. It is part of the "Saint-Pierre consortium" comprising schools in three other cities (Le Cateau, Caudry and Le Quesnoy). The manor is a regional landmark due to its typical architecture. As of September  2018, it has more than three hundred pupils supervised by a staff of around forty agents. History. The École Saint-Joseph is the merger of two Catholic schools fusioned to create mixed-sex education: Philanthropy. Since its inception, the school has organised charity fundraisers and humanitarian activities throughout its academic years which include the collect of clothing as well as school supplies and equipment for African schools; the Opération Pièces jaunes to finance the hospitalisation of children; Purina contests for the acquisition of guide dogs for the visually-impaired or its Christmas market. Every year since 2009, sister Monique, a  representative from a children's charity in Cotonou, Republic of Benin visits the school, and pupils donate the proceeds of their Lent charity activities. In 2021, the Saint-Joseph and Saint-Michel students joined the 'Origami For Life' by the Engie foundation creating origamis later assembled by Belgian designer Charles Kaisin (1972) to create eight trees exhibited at the KANAL - Centre Pompidou in Brussels and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris which raised 75,000 euros for the SAMU Social of Paris, a municipal humanitarian emergency service in France and worldwide whose purpose is to provide medical care and ambulatory  nursing to homeless people and people in social distress. Sports. The school is granted access to Solesmes' swimming pools, the Marie Amélie Le Fur Sports Hall and the Édouard Delberghe building's indoor courts and martial arts room, where they practice circus disciplines.