la chom'hier - aid

Name

la chom'hier - aid

Legal name

La Chôm'hier – AID

Website

https://chomhier.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Adult Education and Socio-Professional Insertion Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Credit Recovery & Alternative Adult High School (EDAAABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Homework Tutoring & Academic Support (Subject Tutoring) (HSAAAHAC), Literacy & Numeracy Intervention (Reading/Math Support) (EDAJALAD), Learning Skills & Study Strategies (Metacognition, Test Skills) (EDAAAAAJ)

Keywords

• Adult literacy training
• Socio-professional insertion
• Social economy restaurant
• Homework help services
• Permanent civic education

Headquarters

HQ city

Brussels

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Social Economy Restaurant Operations: The K-Fête social restaurant generates revenue through meal sales (lunch formulas at €13) and catering services. Revenue is reinvested in the social mission of training and integrating disadvantaged workers into the hospitality sector.
2. Public Subsidy Funding: Primary funding from Brussels-Capital Region, European Social Fund (FSE+), Actiris (ACS), COCOF, Maribel, and inter-AID solidarity funds. These subsidies fund the organization's recognition as an operator of vocational training, social economy, and permanent education.
3. Donations: The organization accepts charitable donations from individuals and organizations to support its social mission. Bank account: BE82775593887268.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

La Chôm'hier - AID provides adult literacy and basic-skills training (Alphabétisation, Formation de base, Formation Tremplin), socio-professional insertion coaching and psychosocial guidance, after-school homework help for newly arrived secondary-school students (École de Devoirs), and permanent civic education. It also runs two social-economy restaurants (K-Fête and K-Fête de la Gare) plus a catering service (Service Traiteur) that act as supervised work-integration workplaces for low-qualified job seekers in the Horeca sector.

Product overview

La Chôm'hier – AID is a social economy organization operating as a unified portfolio of complementary social services, not a technology product platform. The organization provides adult education and professional integration services through distinct programs: literacy and basic training courses (Alphabétisation, Formation de base, Formation Tremplin), youth support (École de Devoirs), and civic education (Éducation Permanente). These educational services are supported by social economy enterprises including the K-Fête social restaurant, K-Fête de la Gare, and catering operations (Service Traiteur), which serve as practical integration workplaces for participants. Coaching and guidance services connect all programs, providing individualized career counseling and psychosocial support to help beneficiaries progress toward employment or further training.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• K-Fête: Social restaurant offering varied cuisine in a convivial and festive atmosphere, providing insertion opportunities in the Horeca sector for low-qualified job seekers.

Products and services

• Alphabétisation (Literacy Training) French language literacy courses (oral and written) for adults with low or no formal education, organized into levels (e.g., Alpha 2-3-4) with placement tests, oral/written assessment, and motivation interview, delivered as part of the agréé insertion socioprofessionnelle stream.
• Formation de base (Basic Training) Foundational skills training in French, mathematics, and digital literacy (24h30 per week) preparing them to enter qualifying vocational training; includes theatre, social-life sessions, professional project definition, job-discovery placements (alpha 4), and psychosocial guidance.
• Formation Tremplin (Springboard Training) Bridge training program helping job seekers define a professional project and prepare for qualifying vocational training or direct employment.
• K-Fête Restaurant Social restaurant at the Laeken site offering a varied cuisine lunch formula at €13 (entrée, plat & dessert), Monday to Friday; serves as a supervised work-integration workplace for low-qualified job seekers in the Horeca sector.
• K-Fête de la Gare Second social restaurant situated in the former train station building near Gare Bockstael, offering the same €13 lunch formula Monday to Friday and additional Horeca integration workplaces.
• Service Traiteur (Catering) Catering service for events of up to 250 persons, providing practical work experience in hospitality while supporting the organization's professional insertion goals.
• École de Devoirs (Homework Help) After-school support service for secondary-school students with priority for newly arrived immigrant children, offering homework assistance, French language learning, cultural integration activities, and remediation sessions; activities animated in partnership with Siréas and La Maison de la Création.
• Éducation Permanente (Permanent Education) Lifelong-learning programs (including Alphabétisation EP modules with €20 PAF and €15 registration per module) focused on critical analysis of society, democratic citizenship, and individual and collective emancipation for adults from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Coaching et Guidance (Coaching and Guidance) Individualized career coaching and psychosocial guidance services helping participants build professional projects, navigate personal barriers, and progress toward employment or further training; delivered by a job-coaching trainer and guidance agents.

Quantifiable outcome

• Participants develop French language competencies enabling employment or further training
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• MOC (Mouvement Ouvrier Chrétien)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1984The MOC is the founding partner of La Chôm'hier - AID. MOC provides political federation, ideological support, and access to the broader AID network of social economy organizations. The CIEP (Centre d'Information et d'Education Populaire) implements permanent education activities for the MOC. La Chôm'hier - AID was created with MOC's support in 1984.
• AID Network (Actions Intégrées de Développement)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1984AID is a network oriented toward professional, social, and civic emancipation of publics distant from employment. The network gathers social and professional insertion projects. La Chôm'hier - AID is a member in Brussels alongside Coften, Cefaid, and CF2M. AID Coordination provides collective services for network members.
• Bruxelles FormationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBruxelles Formation is the public institution responsible for training French-speaking adults in Brussels. La Chôm'hier - AID is recognized as an ISP training operator in partnership with Bruxelles Formation, which co-funds and co-validates certain training programs.
• ActiriscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerActiris is the Brussels public employment service. La Chôm'hier - AID works with Actiris for placement of job seekers and receives ACS (Activations Sur Couvre-Solde) funding for certain positions. Actiris recognizes La Chôm'hier's training as qualifying for unemployment benefit conditions.
• FobagramajorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerFobagra provides two trainers for computer courses across all modules. The partnership includes a formal convention with regular pedagogical coordination meetings. Training takes place in La Chôm'hier's premises.
• ASBL Espace ABCmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEspace ABC acquired a 1,800 m² building and made 800 m² available to La Chôm'hier - AID and ASBL Boulot. The association has a broad mission including economic social activities, social, cultural, and permanent education projects. Provides affordable training facilities.
• ASBL BoulotmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerASBL Boulot is co-located in the Espace ABC building with La Chôm'hier - AID. Boulot provides accompaniment services and collaborated with La Chôm'hier to help Marc secure employment as a maintenance agent. Shares the same values of solidarity and professional insertion.
• La Maison de la CréationmajorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLa Maison de la Création provides space for theatre workshops with Pascale Binnert as facilitator. Work focuses on oral expression, self-confidence, and connection between language learning and body language in public speaking. Also provides space for K-Fête de la Gare restaurant.
• FeBISP (Fédération Bruxelloise des Organismes d'Insertion SocioProfessionnelle)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFeBISP represents 79 structures and 97 projects in ISP and social economy sectors, employing over 1,000 workers serving unqualified job seekers. La Chôm'hier - AID is a permanent member. FeBISP provides federation services, advocacy, and access to the broader Brussels ISP ecosystem.
• Siréas asblminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSiréas provides two facilitators who accompany a La Chôm'hier trainer in life skills/social education activities and animations on Wednesday mornings.
• Lire et ÉcriremajorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLire et Écrire is the reference organization for French literacy in French-speaking Belgium. La Chôm'hier's training levels are aligned with Lire et Écrire's positioning tests. The organization uses their pedagogical frameworks and methodologies.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ASBL Boulot: Co-located in the Espace ABC building and cited as a direct insertion partner (e.g., Marc's placement). Provides accompaniment services for the same disadvantaged Brussels population, making it the most operationally comparable peer.
• Lire et Écrire: The reference francophone literacy federation in Belgium, whose pedagogical frameworks La Chôm'hier – AID explicitly uses. Directly comparable on adult French literacy instruction, methodology, and target learners.
• CF2M: A fellow AID-network member in Brussels focused on socio-professional training and insertion. Operates the same integrated ISP/social-economy model for similar disadvantaged populations.
• Coften: AID-network member delivering socio-professional insertion and training services in Brussels. Directly comparable mission, target segment, and public-funding model.
• Cefaid: AID-network member specializing in training and insertion for disadvantaged adults in Brussels. Comparable scope across ISP and social-economy activities.

Broad incumbents

• Bruxelles Formation: The public Francophone adult-training institution of the Brussels-Capital Region that co-funds and validates La Chôm'hier's ISP programs. A larger incumbent operating the same adult-training mandate across the region.

Others

• FeBISP: Federation representing 79 ISP/social-economy structures and 97 projects employing1,000+ workers in Brussels. Acts as an ecosystem / advocacy body rather than a competitor, but its members (including La Chôm'hier – AID) compete for the same Brussels funding pool.
• Fobagra: Provides computer-skills trainers to La Chôm'hier's programs across all modules. Operates in adjacent adult digital-literacy training space in the same Brussels ecosystem.
• Maison de la Création: Hosts the K-Fête de la Gare restaurant and provides theatre workshops (e.g., Pascale Binnert) for La Chôm'hier learners. A Brussels cultural/social-economy operator whose mission overlaps with La Chôm'hier's permanent-education and insertion goals.

Emerging players

• Siréas: Brussels-based NGO providing facilitators for life-skills and social-education activities, including sessions embedded in La Chôm'hier's programs. Comparable in mission (social and professional insertion) at a smaller scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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