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Dear new inhabitants,
You have just moved into the community of Aigle and we welcome you with great pleasure.
The Aigle town authorities would like to make your establishment into our community easier by offering you this “Welcome” brochure which will provide you with information and many useful addresses to help with your daily life (living arrangements, health, school, work, French classes, meeting-places…)
We hope that this brochure will be of use to you and offer you, dear new inhabitants, our best wishes for an agreeable stay in our community.
The Municipality
Office communal de la population Communal Population Office Place du Marché 1 1860 Aigle Tél. +41 24 468 42 60 Fax +41 24 468 42 62 [email protected]
Commission d’accueil et d’intégration de la ville d’Aigle Aigle Welcome and Integration Commission Hôtel de Ville 1860 Aigle Tel + 41 24 468 41 11 Fax + 41 24 468 41 23 [email protected]
Bureau cantonal pour l'intégration des étrangers et la prévention du racisme Cantonal Office for Integration of Foreigners and the Prevention of Racism Région Aigle & Pays-d’Enhaut c/o Centre social régional de Bex, Avenue de la Gare 14 – Case postale 61 1880 Bex Tél. +41 24 557 27 27 - Natel +41 79 303 28 10 www.vd.ch/autorites/departements/decs/population/ bureau-cantonal-pour-lintegration 3 SUMMARY
1. Map of Aigle
2. Communal Population Office 2.1 Naturalisation
3. Learning French 3.1 Classes given by associations 3.2 French-language encounter groups
4. Health 4.1 Riviera-Chablais Hospital, Vaud-Valais 4.2 Doctors 4.3 Social Insurance Agency 4.4 Maternity and Childhood 4.5 Senior Citizens
5. Family Life 5.1 Day-care 5.2 The Red Cross 5.3 Leisure activities for young people 5.4 Prevention, couples’ relationships, parenting
6. Education and training 6.1 Compulsory schooling 6.2 After compulsory schooling 6.3 Adult education 6.4 Mother-tongue and culture-of-origin classes
7. Libraries 7.1 Municipal library 7.2 « Né pour lire » library-bus 7.3 « A tous livres » intercultural library
8. Employment 8.1 Looking for employment, unemployment 8.2 Associations and employment programmes
4 9. Housing 9.1 Subsidised housing 9.2 Renters’ Defense Association 9.3 Sorting waste and recycling
10. Finances 10.1 Taxes 10.2 Debts
11. Mobility 11.1 By bus 11.2 By car 11.3 On foot
12. Living in Aigle 12.1 Communal council, municipality 12.2 Aigle’s Welcome and Integration Commission 12.3 Cantonal Office for the Integration of Foreigners and 12.3 Prevention of Racism 12.4 Local and sports associations 12.5 Community associations 12.6 Agoris
13. Emergency Telephone Numbers
5 1. MAP OF AIGLE
6 2. COMMUNAL POPULATION OFFICE
The Communal Population Office allows you to take the different administrative steps required for staying in the community temporarily, for establishing yourself or for leaving the community.
Office communal de la population Place du Marché 1 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 468 42 60 - Fax 024 468 42 62 [email protected] Language spoken: French Langue parlée: français
2.1 Naturalisation
The Communal Naturalisation Office is responsible for informing people and organising the processes for Swiss naturalisation for foreigners, as well as for Vaudois naturalisation and acquisition of bourgeoisial rights for Swiss citizens.
Greffe municipal – Hôtel de Ville Place du Marché 1 - 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 468 41 11 - Fax 024 468 41 23 [email protected]
3. LEARNING FRENCH
3.1 French classes given by associations
• Appart 1741 – AMIS – Planchette Community Service
French lessons. Beginners’ – Intermediate – Advanced courses. Adult classes. Child-care available. Registration compulsory at Appart 1741
Chemin de la Planchette 16 – 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 466 76 00 [email protected]
• Learning about School – Français en Jeu
Learn French and discover how the Vaudois school system works. Beginners.
Collège des Dents-du-Midi, room 117 Chemin de la Planchette, 1860 Aigle
7 3.2 Activities and French-language Encounter Groups Café Contact /Welcome Workshop
• Café contact/Atelier bienvenue
The “Welcome” conversation workshop is especially for mothers with young children. Its goal is to be a place for socialisation and exchanges where the accent is put on reinforcing knowledge of oral French.
Open to all, no registration necessary ISO Premises Across from the Dents-du-Midi College / Planchette Tel. 024 466 76 00
• Library Project
The Municipal Library catalogue can be consulted on-line at http://bibliotheque.aigle.ch Place du Marché 4 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 466 60 62
• Pro Senectute – Jolybus Excursions
Pro Senectute contributes to the physical, material and moral well-being of our senior citizens. The Jolybus is one of three buses in Vaud owned by Pro Senectute which offers excursions. Registration compulsory.
Tel. 021 641 70 86 and 021 641 70 87 [email protected]
4. HEALTH
Health-care insurance is mandatory in Switzerland. It allows you to visit your doctor or the hospital without having to pay “cash” for the consultation.
4.1 Riviera-Chablais Hospital
The Riviera-Chablais Hospital is an inter-cantonal hospital located at two sites, Aigle and Monthey, which has an acute-care mission in favour of patients coming from the cantons of Vaud and Valais.
¡ Unless the case is very serious, you must call the number 0848 133 133 before going to Emergency (DOCTORS ON CALL FOR VAUD CANTON)
The Aigle site is for mothers and children. The Monthey site is for adults.
8 The Chablais and Riviera hospitals will merge in 2017 and will occupy 3 sites (Rennaz, Vevey and Monthey). For further information: http://www.hopitalrivierachablais.ch/accueil/presentation.htm
4.2 Doctors
Specialisation Name Address and telephone Languages spoken
Médic’Aigle ANDRIEU Jacques Rue du Centenaire 3 French - German BOCHERENS Astrid Tél. 024 466 26 33 French - English ANEX Jean-François FLOREA Ancuta
General BENDIMERAD Ch. de Pré-d’Emoz 5 French – Arabian - Medecine Mohamed Reda Tél. 024 466 11 33 English
BENKORTBI Rue Farel 9 French – Arabian - Abderrahim Tél. 024 466 50 50 English
Gynecology GRAFF Patrick Ch. de Pré-d’Emoz 10 French – German Tél. 024 466 75 25 English
Pediatry GAGNEBIN Av. de Margencel 29 French - German Anne-Lise Tél. 024 468 10 25
4.3 Social Insurance Agency
Social insurance agencies inform and orient people about their rights and obligations concerning social insurance and social systems and also provide help for filling out official requests for benefits and check that information given by applicants is cor - rect.
AAS (Agence Assurance Sociale) Administration communale Place du Marché - 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 468 41 70 - Fax 024 468 41 73 [email protected]
4.4 Maternity and Childhood
• Free-lance Midwives
The free-lance mid-wives of the Aigle area will accompany you to the best of their ability during your pregnancy, as well as during and after the baby’s birth.
Centrale des Sages-femmes indépendantes du Canton de Vaud Tel. 021 213 79.05
9 • PROFA
Profa’s post-natal counselling service offers advice and consultations for questions on the following subjects:
• Pregnancy – birth • Homo-parenting, co-parenting • Paternity testing • Domestic violence • Prenatal diagnosis • Post-natal depression • Prenatal screening • Returning home • Abortion • Motherhood and work
PROFA – Conseil en périnatalité Rue du Molage 36 1860 Aigle Tel. 021 631 01 54
• Tutti frutti Workshop
The Eastern Vaud Prevention Space offers activities related to safety and health- care which are addressed to the entire population. The Tutti Frutti workshop, about “Food and Movement” is specifically for families with children between 2 and 6 years old. The complete programme of workshops can be consulted at: www.espace-prevention.ch/est/pdf_est/programme_est%20_vaudois_2013-14.pdf
4.5 Senior Citizens
• Family Association
The Family Association organises activities and workshops for senior citizens.
Association President: Tel. 024 466 43 09
• Medico-Social Centres (CMS)
Assistance and home health-care are public services. Medico-social centres offer the following services: • Nursing assistance, for hygiene and comfort • Help to care for your home and assistance with your family • Counselling for young parents • Meal delivery • Assistance with social processes • Ergo-therapeutic treatment • Supplying of auxiliary aides • Installation of a Sécutel alarm • Help with vigil-keeping or presence in case of mortal illness • Counselling and orienting about existing professional and volunteer structures • Transport organisation
10 CMS de la Grande-Eau et de la Gryonne Avenue des Glariers 20 - 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 468 40 00 - Fax 024 468 40 05
• La Residence Senior Citizens’ Home
La Résidence Senior Citizens’ Home offers long and short-term stay options as well as temporary care. Other than these possibilities, La Résidence offers day-care for people who still live at home but who wish to share the company of others and benefit from a hotel and medico-social infrastructure.
Different activities are available to participate in, depending on the person’s affini - ties or capabilities, including: • Reading workshops, memory games, gymnastics, craft activities • Outings and concerts • Painting workshop • “Wii” workshop • “Well-being” workshop, Biodanza • “Anicâlins” workshop, with animals • Ciné-Chouette: movies • Gourmet Corner: preparing meals to be shared
La Résidence d’Aigle Chemin du Levant 6 - 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 468 66 91 - Fax 024 468 66 95 [email protected]
5. FAMILY LIFE
• Family Association
The Family Association organises : • Supervised homework sessions for students from Aigle schools, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays • Food boxes (Cartons du coeur) for the Chablais region • Activities for senior citizens
Supervised homework sessions, registration compulsory: 024 466 35 36 Food boxes (Cartons du coeur) : 024 466 43 09
• Vaudfamille.ch (website)
Vaudfamille.ch is an association which serves parents. You can find information and useful addresses on their website. www.vaudfamille.ch
11 5.1 Daycare
• Family day-care
Family day-care is provided by trained “day-mothers”. Children are welcomed into the day-mother’s home in a family setting, either all day or part of the day.
Central number: 024 557 27 07 [email protected]
• Day-care/After-School Care (UAPE)
There are 2 facilities for day-care and after-school care (UAPE) in Aigle.
Two facilities Pop e poppa , Chemin de la Planchette 17, 1860 Aigle (75 spaces) 024 466 30 06 Les Petits Pirates , Avenue de la Gare 21, 1860 Aigle (36 spaces) 024 466 77 39
Ages accepted 4 – 12 years (Grades 1 – 8)
Hours From 07h to 8h15 (entire Tuesday mornings for 1st-year kindergarten students, 07h to 11h45) From 11h45 to 13h45 with meal From 13h45 to 18h30 (for kindergarten students) From 15h30 to 18h30
School Holidays Open all day for part of each school holiday
Contacts, Registration Réseau Enfants Chablais Amalthée Chemin de Clamogne 27 1170 Aubonne Tel. 021 821 15 75 www.arasape.ch
• Open Workshop – Prevention Space
The Open Workshop is a facility for small children (0 – 5 years) accompanied by a responsible adult.
Le Petit Monde Place du Centenaire 3 1860 Aigle 079 593 32 75 Central number: 024 557 27 07 [email protected]
12 • Emergency Day-Care
Emergency day-care offers a temporary solution for parents who cannot momenta - rily look after their children (i.e. due to illness, accident etc.) Emergency facilities La Marelle in Villeneuve: 021 968 23 32 Les Lapins Bleus in Ollon : 024 499 19 76 Le Mille Pattes in Bex : 024 463 36 17
5.2 The Red Cross
The Aigle Red Cross regional office will provide the following services: - Care for sick children - Baby-sitting - Transport - Red Cross-trained personnel - “Au Fil Rouge” thrift shop
Croix-Rouge vaudois For information about social Antenne régionale d’Aigle services and volunteer work: Rue du Collège 11 Tel. 021 340 00 99 1860 Aigle Fax 021 340 00 79 Tel. 021 340 00 70 [email protected] Fax 021 320 66 73
5.3 Leisure Activities for Children
• Appart 1741 – AMIS – Planchette Community Services
All year round, including during school holidays, different activities are available at the Couleurs (Planchette) Playground and/or in the ISO rooms across from the Dents-du-Midi Planchette High School.
Service communautaire de la Planchette Case postale 53 1860 Aigle 024 466 76 00 [email protected]
• Junior Space
Games room for children aged 2 to 12 years. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Espace Junior Chemin de Novasalles 1860 Aigle
13 • The Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern is a movie club for children aged 6 to 12 years. Its goal is to allow young children to discover the pleasure of movies.
Cinéma Cosmopolis Information Chemin de Novasalles La Lanterne Magique, c/o Cinérive 1860 Aigle Rue J.-J. Rousseau 6, 1800 Vevey Tel. 021 925 88 88
• Holiday Passport
The Holiday Passport allows students (from Grade 3 onwards) to participate in dif - ferent activities during the first week of summer vacation. Passports and informa - tion are distributed by teachers at the schools.
Information concerning activity dates: Tel. 024 467 00 51
5.4 Activities for Young People
• Aigle Youth Association
This association (AJA) offers socio-cultural activities to young people from Aigle, in its own space. As well as sports and crafts, the AJA provides a place for meetings and encounters between friends, at noon, after school or during the evening.
Association pour la Jeunesse Aiglonne Avenue des Glariers – Case postale 390 1860 Aigle Tel. 079 900 36 45 [email protected]
• ”Clin d’Oeil” Foundation
This foundation offers several youth activities, depending on their possibilities, such as: OpenMic, Youth Groups, Recording Studio, Vogay Group, Movie Days, as well as organisation of concert or theme-related evenings. Other inter-generational activi - ties are also organised.
Fondation Clin d’Oeil Rue du Collège 5 1860 Aigle Tel. 078 620 70 68 [email protected]
14 5.5 Prevention, relationships, parenting
• Ado and Parents’ Café
The Parents’ Garden is a dialogue and meeting area for parents of young children and teenagers. Themes which are discussed touch everything about daily life, such as family relationships, work organisation, quarrels and leisure activities.
Tel. 024 468 40 80 http://www.espace-prevention.ch
• PROFA – Couples consultation, sexology QPROFA – Sexual health and family planning
The couples’ consulting and sexology service is the “couples” side of the Profa. Its goal is to allow communication via dialogue when relationship difficulties are encountered, and to help create a new balance. The sexual health consultation service is open to both men and women who are of child-bearing age, and to offer a space to discuss sexuality, affectivity and procreation. Consultations in French, German, English, Romanian and Turkish.
PROFA – Consultation de santé sexuelle – planning familial Rue du Molage 36 1860 Aigle Tel. 021 631 01 44
6. EDUCATION AND TRAINING
6.1 Compulsory Education
• Compulsory Public School
The Primary and Secondary School Establishment for Aigle, Yvorne and Corbeyrier teaches students aged 4 to 15 years. The school is compulsory and free of cost for all children and teenagers, no matter what their legal status. Schools in Aigle schools have much experience with integrating and teaching children from immigrant families.
Secrétariat School Infirmary: 024 557 68 90 Etablissement primaire et secondaire Ancien Collège, 1èr étage Rue du Collège 12 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 557 68 88 [email protected]
15 • Parents’ Association
The goals of the Parents’ Association are to encourage discussion between parents, school administrators and the municipalities and to participate in the creation of projects connected to school life.
Contact Person Tel. 024 466 78 03 [email protected]
• Supervised Homework
Aigle Family Association. Supervised homework sessions are planned mainly for children who are having difficulties with their schoolwork, from Grade 3 to Grade 6, but also for Grade 7 students on some conditions.
Registration Tel. 024 466 35 36
• La Monneresse Foundation
La Monneresse Foundation organises the services of PPLS specialists (psychologists, psycho-motor therapists, school speech therapists) who offer consultations and support in collaboration with parents and school professionals. PPLS services are fi - nanced by the canton, therefore parents do not pay anything.
Fondation La Monneresse Chemin de la Planchette 1 - 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 466 33 33
• Verdeil Foundation
At the Verdeil Foundation, in the Canton of Vaud, specialised schools and support services answer the needs of children who have lost their points of reference, hel - ping them to re-acquire a taste for learning.
Information Chemin de Pré d’Emoz 7 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 453 73 40 Fax 024 453 73 41
16 6.2 After Compulsory School
• Burier High School
This high school accepts teenagers who have finished their classes in secondary school and obtained their certificates. The Burier High School offers the following training subjects:
• High school maturity certificate, ending with a baccalaureate or federal maturity • certificate. • General culture and commercial school • Specialised maturity certificate oriented towards teaching (MSOP) • Specialised maturity certificate oriented towards health-care (MSOS)
Gymnase du Burier Route de Chailly 170 Case postale 96 1814 La Tour-de-Peilz Tel. 021 316 93 33 Fax 021 316 93 00 [email protected]
• Chablais Professional School
The Chablais Professional School (EPCA) is a professional teaching establishment in the domains of commerce and specialised commerce. The school teaches profes - sional theory and professional maturity.
Ecole Professionelle du Chablais Avenue des Marroniers 3 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 557 79 39 Fax 024 557 79 40 [email protected]
• OPTI
The Organisme pour le Perfectionnement scolaire, la Transition et l’Insertion pro - fessionnelle (OPTI) accepts students aged 15 to 18 years, to help them with a tran - sitional year between compulsory schooling and professional life.
OPTI Aigle Avenue des Glariers Case postale 327 1860 Aigle
17 • SeMo
The Motivational Semester (SeMo) is a transitional measure to prepare for profes - sional training and is subsidized by the Vaudois Work Service via Unemployment In - surance. The SeMo accepts young people who have finished their compulsory schooling and are looking for a network for professional training, as well as young people who have left their apprenticeships for various reasons.
SeMo Chablais Pre-requisites: Rue de la Servannaz 33 -Aged between 15 and 25 Case postale 305 -Living in the Aigle/Riviera district 1880 Bex -Unfinished professional training Tel. 024 463 09 63
6.3 Adult Education
• Lire et écrire
Classes for adults who speak French and wish to improve their reading and writing skills.
Registration and information Tel. 021 922 46 10 - [email protected]
• Connaissances 3
Connaissances 3 is a university created by senior citizens but open to all, with no age or diploma limit. As a bridge between university knowledge in a wider sense and everyday society, it aims for life-long continuing education. Conferences are or - ganised in Aigle according to the annual programme, available at www3.unil.ch/wpmu/connaissance3/par-dates.
Conferences Contact Person F. Rouge Hall in the Hôtel de Ville Tel. 024 463 27 48 Place du Marché 1 - 1860 Aigle [email protected]
6.4 Mother-tongue and culture-of-origin classes
• Mother-tongue and culture-of-origin classes are available through • different community associations. See point 12.5
This high school accepts teenagers who have finished their classes in secondary school and obtained their certificates. The Burier High School offers the following training subjects:
18 7. LIBRARIES
7.1 Municipal Library
• Compulsory Public School
The Aigle Municipal Library lends out romances, documentaries, comic books, ma - gazines, foreign-language books and reference books to the public. It also organises different animations on book and reading-related themes (exhibits, reading rallies for young readers, story-telling evenings, visits of the City Library on request, etc.)
Bibliothèque Place du Marché 4 - 1860 Aigle Tel. 025 466 60 62 [email protected]
7.2 «Né pour lire » Book Bus
The « Né pour lire » book bus can be found in public areas, in the corridors of shopping malls, outside buildings, at the swimming-pool, etc. For several hours, with the help of local librarians, it allows young families to borrow 400 books especially for small children aged 0 to 7 years, with books in French and in the immigrants’ mother-tongues (Portu - guese, Albanian, Tamoul, etc.)
Bibliothèque Place du Marché 4 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 466 60 62 [email protected]
7.3 « A tous livres » Intercultural Library
The Monthey Intercultural Library lends out books in different languages (55 languages available). It also offers a space for different activities linked with other cultures.
Bibliothèque interculturelle- (Maison du Monde building) Avenue du Crochetan 42 1870 Monthey Tel. 024 471 59 74 [email protected]
19 8. EMPLOYMENT
8.1 Looking for a job and unemployment
• Regional Placement Office (ORP)
Regional Placement Offices (ORP) are available to help you find a job and are spe - cialised centres with information about the job market, job offers and unemploy - ment. As soon as you know that you will lose your job, but at the latest on the first day you request unemployment benefits, you must register with your local Regional Placement Office.
Office régional de placement (ORP) Rue de la Gare 6 - 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 557 77 40 Fax 024 557 77 45 [email protected]
• Unemployment Offices
You must fulfill certain conditions in order to receive unemployment insurance pay - ments. ¡ To learn if you fill these conditions: www.vd.ch/themes/economie/emploi- • chomage/espace-chomeurs/indemnisation/ Allowances will be calculated and paid to you via your chosen unemployment office.
Caisse cantonale de chômage Syna Caisse de chômage Caisse de chômage Place du Marché 6 Rue du Bourg 26 1860 Aigle 1860 Aigle Tel. 021 316 93 70 Tel. 024 466 63 81 [email protected]
UNIA Caisse de chômage Rue du Rhône 14 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 466 82 87
If you do not fill the necessary conditions for receiving unemployment insurance payments, you may be eligible for Re-insertion Payments (RI). You can find information on this at your local social services centre. The social workers there will be able to orient you towards all public and private services.
¡ Regional Social Services Centre (CSR) Avenue de la Gare 14 1880 Bex Tel. 024 557 27 27 ¡ Reception open from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Social services available by appointment in the afternoons from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (tel. 024 557 27 27) 20 8.2 Work Associations and Programmes
• Appart 1741 – AMIS – Planchette Community Service
The on-call section of the Planchette Community Service offers support and orientation in processes related to looking for jobs, housing, naturalisation and to understand a document or write a letter.
Service communautaire de la Planchette Case postale 53 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 466 76 00 [email protected]
• Syndicates
Professional associations can provide you with information about salaries offered in the jobs which they represent and can also orient you or accompany you through the different processes.
Syna Syndicate Rue du Bourg 26 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 466 63 81
The Swiss Syndical Union (USS) website provides a list of the coordinates of the different member syndicates: ¡ www.uss.ch
• Migrants’ Job Mentoring
The Migrants’ Professional Insertion Mentoring programme is a knowledge- exchange platform for professionals and is provided for immigrants who are looking for a job.
www.mentoratemploimigration.ch
9. HOUSING
9.1 Subsidised Housing
The net revenue of your income tax declaration and the household revenue accor - ding to the number of people in the family are the determining factors in order for you to benefit from subsidised housing.
Service cantonal du logement Tel. 021 316 64 00 www.vd.ch/logement > aides-subventions > individuelle 21 9.2 Renters’ Defense Association
In the case of litigation between you and your landlord or management, the Renters’ Defense Association (ASLOCA) can provide you with judicial aide and advice.
By appointment only ASLOCA Hôtel de Ville 1860 Aigle Tel. 021 962 78 66
9.3 Sorting waste and recycling
Aigle Municipality applies the system of garbage-bag taxing. Garbage is collected using only the official green and white bags which must then be placed in the correct bins or on the street, only on the collection day (not the preceding evening).
¡ Price of official bags and sales-points: ¡ http://www.aigle.ch/N1053/sacs-poubelle-vert-et-blanc.html
For more information, please consult the municipality flyer or their website.
10. FINANCES
10.1 Income Taxes
Anyone living or having a source of revenue in Vaud Canton must fill out an annual income tax declaration. The main taxes which an individual must pay are taxes on revenue and taxes on fortune.
¡ Taxes at the source: ¡ Foreigners who are living permanently or temporarily in Switzerland are required to pay taxes at the source. The tax will be taken directly from the employee’s salary by the employer.
¡ Income tax declaration ¡ People who have a B permit and whose salary is over FR 120,000.— and people who have a C permit do not have to pay taxes at the source and must therefore fill out an ordinary income tax declaration.
¡ For more information: ¡ Administration Cantonale des Impôts (ACI) ¡ Tel. 021 316 00 00 ¡ Email [email protected] ¡ www.vd.ch/impots
22 • Tax Office
Office d’impôt du district d’Aigle Rue de la Gare 27 - Case postale 119 - 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 557 70 70 - Fax 024 466 56 43
• Help with your Income Tax Declaration
The AVIVO, Bex and District Section provides help with filling out your income tax declaration.
AVIVO Bex / Aigle - Chemin de l’Ecluse 8 - 1880 Bex Tel. 024 463 10 16
• Appart 1741 – AMIS – Planchette Community Service
The Planchette Community Service on-call section provides help with fil - ling out your income tax declaration.
Service communautaire de la Planchette Case postale 53 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 466 76 00 [email protected]
10.2 Debts
• Info Budget
Vaud State and its partners have set up “Info Budget”, an advice office which tries to prevent and fight against excessive debt. Advice and practical information are available confidentially about how to manage your budget and answer all questions concerning debts.
Info Budget Tel. 0840 432 100 www.vd.ch/dettes
• Caritas Social and Consultation Service
This sector is a general social service available to answer any of your questions. It has great experience with advising about controlling debts and accompanying people with excessive debts.
1880 Bex Tel. 024 557 27 27 www.caritas-vaud.ch
23 • Young Adults’ Support
This completely confidential and free-of-charge service offered through the Protestant Social Centre provides information, advice and support for young people from 16 to 25 with their processes, particularly in the case of financial and debt
problems and legal proceedings.
Jet Service Secteur Jeunes & Travail On-line information concerning Rue Louis-Meyer 3 financial problems for young adults 1800 Vevey can also be found on the Internet Tel. 021 560 60 30 site www.ciao.ch. [email protected]
11. MOBILITY
11.1 By Bus
The municipal bus is an ecological vehicle which serves the entire community of Aigle on a circular route twice an hour.
11.2 By Car
Foreigners who have a foreign drivers’ licence must exchange it within 12 months from their arrival date for a Swiss drivers’ licence. A practical and/or written examination may be required.
Service des automobiles et de la navigation Centre régional d’Aigle Chemin Sous le Grand Pré 12 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 557 71 30 Fax 024 466 45 57 [email protected]
11.3 On Foot
The « pedibus » accompanies children to school on foot, with the help of parents.
Aigle contact person Ollon contact person Tel. 024 466 97 92 / 076 391 97 92 021 964 84 37 / 079 610 95 46
The Municipality sits once a week (for ordinary meetings) on Monday afternoons at the Hôtel de Ville.
24 12.1 Town and Municipal Council
The Town Council could be called the “Town Parliament”: it exercises legislative functions. It is made up of a varying number of councillors, who are elected by the citizens according to the proportional representation system for a 5-year legislation. Councillors can be re-elected.
The Municipality is made up of 5 members with a president (called “the Syndic”) at its head and 4 Municipal Councillors. The Municipality Members are elected by the people for 5 years, on the majority system. The executive is entirely renewed at the same time as the Municipal Council.
Greffe Municipal Hôtel de Ville - 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 468 41 11 - Fax 024 468 41 23 [email protected]
12. LIVING IN AIGLE
12.2 Aigle Welcome and Integration Committee
Created in 2009, this committee is committed, via charter, to: • Promote the welcome and integration of foreigners who are staying in • the community • Be a place where dialogue and information can be exchanged between people • and the authorities • Coordinate and support actions promoting welcome and integration • Bring together the different actors in the area of integration • Give replies to integration questions, both for the local authorities as well as for • people or associations and provide a link between the Cantonal Chamber and • other municipal committees established in the canton.
Commission Consultative d’accueil et d’intégration P.a. Greffe municipal – Hôtel de Ville Place du Marché 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 468 41 11 Fax 024 468 41 23 [email protected]
25 12.3 Cantonal office for Integration of Foreigners and Prevention of Racism (BCI)
The main mission of this office is to organise concrete measures to help Swiss and foreign communities co-exist in harmony on the basis of common values, respect and mutual tolerance. As a competent integration centre, the BCI offers personalised advice, pilots cantonal programmes and manages the federal integration finances. Rue du Valentin 10 Aigle Office, Pays-d’Enhaut Region 1014 Lausanne c/o Centre social régional de Bex Tel. 021 316 49 59 Avenue de la Gare 14 [email protected] Case postale 61 www.vd.ch/integration 1880 Bex Tel. 024 557 27 27 / 079 303 28 10
12.4 Local and Sports Associations
Over 50 societies or associations, grouped under the name of USLA (Unions des societés locales d’Aigle), are active in this area.
Greffe Municipal Hôtel de Ville 1860 Aigle Tel. 024 468 41 11 Fax 024 468 41 23 [email protected]
26 12.5 Community Associations
Addresses Contact person & additional information Aigle Albanian Association Albanian language classes in «Les ailes de l’Aigle» the Chablais area p.a M. Labinot Haxhaj 024 472 32 21 ou 078 880 28 56 Chemin des Tilleuls 3 1860 Aigle [email protected] Bosnian Association Aigle Spanish Centre Spanish classes Rue Jérusalem 6 021 964 62 37 1860 Aigle Tél. 024 466 32 41 Aigle Italian Association Italian classes Rue Jérusalem 12 Tél : 021 311 75 68 1860 Aigle Fax : 021 323 94 80 Tél. 024 466 47 23 [email protected] Serbian classes Tél. 079/301.08.03 //Violeta Brakus Aigle Portuguese Association M. José Lopes - Tél. 079 204 36 01 Chemin de Marjolin 51 For lessons, please contact the Case postale 456 Portuguese Association. 1860 Aigle Folklore Group. Jovons A Solta: Tél. 024 466 65 95 Dance group for young people. [email protected] www.apaigle.ch
12.6 Agoris Platform for Harmonious Living in the Chablais Area
The Agoris Label wishes to promote harmonious cohabitation between the different populations of the Chablais human landscape, in a spirit of welcome, integration and participation in local and regional life. www.agoris.ch Translated into 81 languages Audion in 12 languages www.agoris.ch
27 13. CONTACT NUMBERS – EMERGENCIES
Police 117 Fire department 118 Domestic Violence 021 620 76 76 La main tendue (Help and moral support by phone) 143 Ambulances 144 Intoxications 145 Telephone Information 1811 ou 1818 ou 1850