Le RAFEO est un programme d'aide financière visant à vous aider à payer vos études au collège ou à l'université.
I want to know why there is an à in visant à.
None of the entries in the wordreference page for [viser][1] is an entry for "visant à". My guess here is visant à vous aider à payer ..
means "aiming to help you to pay..".
The relevant entries in wordreference don't have the preposition "à"; the example sentences also do not have the preposition "à":
Simon vise le poste de directeur.
Simon is aiming for the manager's job.Cette loi ne vise que les étrangers.
This law only targets foreigners.
Questions:
1a) How come there is an à after visant, in "un programme d'aide financière visant à vous aider"?
1b) How could I have found out what visant à means, using a dictionary?
1c) Is "visant pour" allowed here, instead of "visant à", considering that "pour" is the preposition used to mean "for the purpose of.." ("aiming for the purpose of helping you pay..").