2017 Management Report 94 projects funded worldwide
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Presentation MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN PRESENTING THE FOUNDATION FUNDING CRITERIA THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE FOUNDATION’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS IN FRANCE AND WORLDWIDE COMPANY EVENTS THE AIR FRANCE FOUNDATION AWARDS THE FRIENDS OF THE FOUNDATION NETWORK THE FOUNDATION IN THE MEDIA ANNUAL PROGRAMME
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The programme
2017
Africa & Middle East South Africa Angola Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Congo Brazzaville Côte d’Ivoire Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Lebanon Mali Morocco Niger Central African Republic Democratic Republic of Congo Senegal Chad Togo Turkey
Latin America 52 53 53 54 54 55 55 55 57 57 58 59 59 61 62 62 63 63 64 64 65
Argentina Brazil Colombia Honduras Mexico Peru
Europe 68 68 71 72 73 73
Asia Burma Cambodia China India Nepal Philippines Vietnam
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Caribbean Indian Ocean Haiti Madagascar Dominican Republic
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Romania
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France Chamonix Greater Paris Guadeloupe French Guiana La Réunion Martinique Montpellier Appendices
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Editorial
Editorial
Editorial In 1992, corporate foundations were still few in number and our Company can take pride in having embarked on a long-term initiative in this area at that time. In setting up the Air France Foundation, our predecessors were already seeking to afďŹ rm the role and responsibility of a leading air carrier in the countries it serves.
The Air France Foundation is celebrating its first 25 years of dedication and humanitarian work.
Air France still assumes that responsibility today, and its Foundation, to which all Group personnel are very much attached, has funded multiple projects to help children. Because education is the foundation for everyone’s development, we have chosen to concentrate on access to training and culture for young people who are sick, disabled or vulnerable in France and worldwide. Our airline operates a vast, global air transport network for its customers. For its people, it also offers an outstanding window on the world that enlarges their awareness of the sheer scale of the action needed and drives their dedication to others. Day after day, the Air France Foundation focuses their energy by helping to bring hope and dignity to children in difďŹ culty. On behalf of everyone, I would like to warmly thank the Foundation in this 25th anniversary year.
Jean-Marc Janaillac Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Air France-KLM
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Presenting the Foundation
Presenting the Foundation
Presenting the Foundation
The Foundation was set up in 1992 by Air France. As one of the very first French corporate foundations, it opted to support the cause of children in difficulty, so dear to the hearts of Company personnel. For the past 25 years the Foundation has been examining, selecting and financing projects to help sick, disabled and vulnerable children in the countries where Air France operates.
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Identify and support the most appropriate projects
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Over the years, it has forged ties with the voluntary sector and NGOs, driven by the conviction that access to education, training, and leisure and cultural pursuits constitutes the best preparation for life’s great journey. The Air France Foundation has helped bring some 1,340 projects to fruition, most of them sponsored by Company employees. Today, it is one of the largest French corporate foundations both in terms of funding and the number of projects to which it has contributed. It also has the benefit of an extensive network of Company staff, who rally round to help it and take part in the initiatives it leads and supports. “The Foundation’s approach is based on the conviction that access to education, training, and leisure and cultural pursuits, constitutes the best preparation for life’s great journey.” Because education changes the world, the Air France Foundation helps voluntary bodies to pursue their educational projects. We are together developing innovative solutions together both with front-line aid workers and with the communities themselves.
Children are humanity’s chief capital and its future
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Because education changes the world
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There are numerous obstacles to education. Family poverty is one, leading to a lack of resources to pay school fees, and a need for children to work for the family. Distance to the nearest school is another, combined with a lack of qualified teachers and shortages of school equipment. Others are the fact of being a girl, which involves early marriage and pregnancy and insecurity at school; disease, much of it avoidable; migration for survival; and natural disasters. All of these deprive millions of people of access to quality education.
Yet education is a necessary building block for development.
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Presenting the Foundation
Vulnerable young people From its inception, the Air France Foundation made the cause of street children one of its flagship programmes It has supported the professionals who help to improve the living conditions of these young people and who hold out the prospect of a more settled future for them. In France, the Foundation supports ground-breaking initiatives by voluntary bodies which are more especially interested in young people living in difficult neighbou hoods.
Spotlight on Projeto Uerê, Brazil
Projeto Uerê is an alternative school with an intake of 430 children aged 6 to 16 located in the Maré neighbourhood, one of the biggest favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The children attend a state school for half the day and are schooled at Uerê in the other half. The person in charge, Yvonne Bezerra de Melo, has developed a teaching method tailored to the needs of child trauma victims. Aided by 22 employees, she successfully applies her method in her school, whose students achieve an impressive rate of educational success. These children live in conditions of dire poverty and social exclusion, and have suffered multiple traumas linked to the extreme violence of their local environment. The project funded by the Air France Foundation uses photography to highlight the reality of abandoned or vulnerable children in very low-income communities.
Presenting the Foundation
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Street children
The Air France Foundation has always had a strong commitment to helping street children. This is one of its key fields of action. In Morocco, in Cambodia in the Philippines, Romania, Brazil, Egypt, Senegal, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Russia, Colombia, the Republic of the Congo, in Peru... and also in France, the Air France Foundation continually supports charities working to return children to their families – which is sometimes simply not possible, and is never easy. These charities work tirelessly to try to integrate the young people into mainstream society.
Presenting the Foundation
Spotlight on
the La Liane charity, Senegal The city of Saint-Louis in Senegal has an estimated population of 277,245, some 51% of whom are females under the age of 18. Many children live in precarious situations that jeopardize their safety and personal fulfilment. They are often victims of exploitation through begging, child labour (especially the girls) abuse and ill-treatment. La Liane’s initiatives are mainly centred around child protection and defending their rights. The children catered to in the centre benefit from accommodation, healthcare and dieta y support, and sports, cultural and other leisure activities. They attend school or vocational training. La Liane investigates the origins of the children to prepare for a possible return to their families. The Air France Foundation is helping La Liane financially to set up patrols in the streets and difficult neighbo hoods of Saint-Louis. These are carried out by a nurse, a psychologist, and a youth worker and are aimed at taking the children off the street and away from the risk of exploitation and violence, or to halt a slide into crime.
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Sick and disabled children: breaking down exclusion
Because sickness and disability have an impact on their everyday lives, introducing children to educational, cultural and leisure activities enables the Air France Foundation to accompany these children on the road to personal fulfilment an healing.
Spotlight on
the FLY n’KISS charity, France The charity FLY n’KISS was set up to give children the time of their lives. It organizes pleasure flights in pa tnership with flying club all over France. This is a priceless treat for the kids: witness those children with autism who uttered their first words in the aircraft during a fligh while others energetically showed they wanted to get back in the air. In addition to the pleasure flights, F Y n’KISS organizes flying related workshops, from piloting radio-controlled helicopter to making model aircraft, a painting workshop, watching videos, throwing boomerangs, special afternoon teas, etc.
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Living with disability
Over 650 million people, or 10% of the world population, today live with a physical or mental disability. Among these are 190 million children. For many of them, simply gaining access to education is a genuine obstacle course. Children living with disability must be able to enjoy the rights guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. They must benefit from special care an appropriate education and training, so that they can live a full and decent life with dignity, achieve the highest possible degree of self-sufficiency and social integration and achieve fulfilment to the maximum of their potential. et that is not always the case.... Ever since it was set up, the Air France Foundation has supported initiatives designed to help young people living with disability to find hope and dignit .
Presenting the Foundation
Spotlight on
The Centre des Jeunes Aveugles, Cameroon In Cameroon, about 10% of the population are estimated to be living with a disability. For each of them, living with disability is a full-on obstacle course. Disability is almost always poorly perceived by those around the person concerned: in the collective unconscious, it suggests “social overload, the weight of the inactive”, fear, and a sense of shame. The Centre des Jeunes Aveugles (Centre for Blind Young People) is in Dschang. It was set up by a Cameroon national, Paul Tezanou who was born blind. He was fortunate because, as a young adult, he was able to learn braille, which transformed his life, and he dreamt of giving this same opportunity to other blind young compatriots. Today, the Centre teaches braille to around 30 blind or partially sighted children and teenagers, enabling them to attend primary and secondary schools in Dschang. They board at the Centre and are monitored by the support staff throughout their time at school. The Air France Foundation has financed the reconstruction and extension of the boys’ dormitories, which had become dilapidated and unsafe.
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Children with disabilities can and must benefit from educational continuity and have access to leisure pursuits and culture
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Project funding criteria
Funding criteria
A charity The Foundation only funds charity projects.
A project The Air France Corporate Foundation partners projects that match its main focus, ie, education and training for sick, disabled and highly vulnerable children and young people. The project must be located either in a country where Air France operates or in a French region selected by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees as part of its annual programme. The Foundation encourages employees to get involved in charity projects.
Expertise The experience and professionalism of the charity are key. Those championing projects will be experts in the field of childcare and project management and have in-depth knowledge of the field in which they will be operating. The Foundation carefully vets projects to ascertain that project champions are well aware of the national and local social, economic and cultural environment.
Long-term projects A project part-funded by the Foundation must have a long-term basis. The Foundation opts to support projects that are structurally capable of achieving administrative and financial self-sufficiency at the end of the funding period. The Foundation thus pays particular attention to the robustness of the project’s budgetary structure and to other areas in connection with financing and partnerships.
Project funding criteria
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Project selection Projects are examined after applications have been uploaded to the Foundation’s website by the charity. Selection is above all based on due diligence, analysis and on interviews conducted by Foundation personnel.
The Board of Trustees Once a year, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees votes on a programme of actions.
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The Foundation encourages Company employees to get involved in charity projects
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Follow-up Each project selected by the Board of Trustees is detailed in a partnership agreement that strictly defines the charity’s duties towards the Foundation’s funding. That means using the funds only in pursuit of the initiative supported by the Foundation, the realisation of the project, and the charity’s provision of interim progress reports and an end-of-year activity and financial report. A project evaluation system is used to ensure genuine follow-up of all funded initiatives.
The pathway of a project
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The Board of Trustees
Our organization
Comprising members of founder companies Air France and Servair, employee representatives and qualified individuals, the Board of Trustees oversees Foundation policy. The mandate of the Air France Foundation has been extended for a further five years. Our Chairman, Mr Janaillac, wished to invite new people to join us. As a result, Eglantine Éméyé, Sarah Lavoine and Thomas Pesquet are the latest members of the Air France Foundation Board of Trustees. We wish them a very warm welcome.
Patrick ALEXANDRE
Dominique WOOD
Gilles GATEAU
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The Board of Trustees
Members of the Air France Foundation Board of Trustees
Founder members’ College Jean-Marc JANAILLAC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Air France-KLM / Chairman of the Air France Foundation
Dominique WOOD Air France-KLM Senior Vice President Communication
Franck TERNER Chief Executive Officer of Air France
Colette VILLEBEUF Assistant to the Air France-KLM Chief Executive Officer
Patrick ALEXANDRE Executive Vice President of Commercial Sales and Alliances
Michel EMEYRIAT Chief Executive Officer, SERVAIR
Gilles GATEAU Head of Human Resources and Labour Relations
Employee Representatives’ College François CABRERA Secretary General, AF-KL European Works Council
Sandra MOORE
Sandra MOORE Secretary General, Routes Works Council
Franck TERNER
Béatrice LESTIC CFDT Union Representative
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The Board of Trustees
Members of the Air France Foundation Board of Trustees
Qualified Persons’ College Constance BENQUÉ Chairwoman, Lagardère Active Publicité
Sandra LE GRAND Founder of Kalidéa, President, ConfAndCo
Jean-Marie COLOMBANI Journalist
Michèle MEYZIE DEBENEST Former Chairwoman of the GDF-Suez Foundation
Eglantine ÉMÉYÉ TV anchor
Thomas PESQUET Astronaut and Air France pilot
Miguel-Angel ESTRELLA Pianist
Olivier ROYANT Editor-in-Chief, Paris Match
Sarah LAVOINE Interior Decorator
Constance BENQUÉ
Jean-Marie COLOMBANI
Eglantine ÉMÉYÉ
Miguel-Angel ESTRELLA
Sarah LAVOINE
Sandra LE GRAND
Thomas PESQUET
Olivier ROYANT
The Board of Trustees
The Air France Foundation Team Cécile VIC Managing Director
Emmanuelle NÉNIN Communications-Computer Graphics assistant
Malika MOGUÉROU Assistant to the Managing Director, Head of Communications and Events
Chloé RAINGLAS Projects assistant
Alexandra GARANCHER Assistant to the Managing Director, Head of Projects and Administration Nasséra NEBKHOUT Secretary
Hubert DE DAMPIERRE Treasurer Sophie AUDBERT and Olinda DA COSTA Accountants
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Celebrating 25 years of the Air France Foundation!
25 years of commitment to education!
25 years dedicated to society’s most fragile: vulnerable, sick or disabled children! 25 years and 1,340 projects funded in France and around the world. Because education changes the world! For the past 25 years, the Air France Foundation has pursued its goals, convinced that access to education, training and culture is the key factor in the development of every child. We extend our warmest thanks to all those who have been at our side and supported us for so many years. Our thanks also to all volunteers for their dedication to our cause. CÊcile Vic Managing Director
Celebrating 25 years of the Air France Foundation!
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Milestones! 1992
CREATION OF THE AIR FRANCE FOUNDATION Corporate foundation
Child in My Street” exhibition 2001 “Aorganized by the Air France Foundation
2003 Concorde auction 2009 Inaugural flight of the A380
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Celebrating 25 years of the Air France Foundation!
Since
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The Air France Foundation Awards
ppeal for funds from personnel 2010 Afollowing the Haiti earthquake
of the Maison des Ados to mark 2015 Ithe nauguration tenth anniversary of AĂŻna, Enfance & Avenir with the Healthcare Heroes, 2016 Anwith Evening Michel Drucker
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Celebrating 25 years of the Air France Foundation!
25 years of dedication to children
France
Poland Turkey
Algeria Mexico
Cuba
Morocco
Lebanon Egypt
Russia
Armenia Afghanistan Iraq
Tibet
Jordan Sudan Ethiopia
Mongolia Nepal
Japan
China
Laos Pakistan Mali Niger Vietnam Philippines India Burkina Faso Chad Thailand Djibouti Maritime Guinea Cambodia Benin Central African Rep. Sri Lanka Côte d’Ivoire Togo Rwanda Kenya São Tomé Burundi Indonesia Cameroon Gabon Madagascar Congo Angola La Réunion Mauritius South Africa
Haiti
Dominican Rep. Guadeloupe Guatemala Honduras Martinique Nicaragua Costa Rica Venezuela Fr. Guiana Colombia Ecuador Peru Brazil Bolivia
Chile
Tunisia
Czech Rep. Bosnia,Croatia Kosovo Montenegro Serbia Bulgaria Romania Ukraine
Senegal
Argentina
1,340 projects funded in 25 years
80 countries have benefitted from Air France Foundation support
France 31 %
Africa / Middle East 28 %
I n 25 yea r s t he Fou nd ation h a s s uppor t e d South America 12 %
Europe 4%
Asia 16 %
Caribbean / Indian Ocean 9%
ANNUAL NUMBER OF PROJECTS FUNDED BETWEEN 54 1992 and 2017 38 9
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Events in France and worldwide
Events
Events in France and worldwide
A Solidarity Chain
for the children of Madagascar
The Air France Foundation has a strong presence in Madagascar and earlier this year it teamed up with Air France Cargo to fly to the assistance o several charities working with vulnerable children. The initiative took the shape of a major drive for donations of toys, books, etc., which were shipped by Air France Cargo to the Madagascan capital, Antananarivo.
A collection lasting several days to rally Company personnel The donations drive was spread over several days and encouraged Air France employees to bring in all sorts of toys, educational games, school materials and baby supplies so that they would have a second life on the other side of the world. Ten charities were selected and benefitte from the material donated. Air France Cargo shipped all those generous donations to Madagascar, where they were distributed to the charities to support them in their work with the children.
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Events in France and worldwide
Ten charities supported to foster early learning and schooling
A big THANK YOU to all those employees who generously contributed to the drive. Thanks to them, we have put a smile back on the faces of many children.
The donations have helped to improve the daily lives of children cared for by ten charities, all dedicated to children and their education. The beneficia y charities were: AIDE AUX ENFANTS DE LA FRANCOPHONIE (AEF), AÏNA ENFANCE & AVENIR, AKAMASOA ASMAE, FIZARANA, JAMAL, LES ENFANTS DE L’OVALE, SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL, SOS VILLAGES D’ENFANTS, ZAZAKELY SAMBATRA.
A SOLIDARITY CHAIN This was an outstanding joint initiative that demonstrates the solidarity that Air France personnel can deliver to bolster our action in Madagascar: out of the 1,340 projects funded by the Foundation since 1992, some 76 have applied to Madagascar, including five in 2017
Since the start of this campaign • 2.4 metric tons of donations collected in 2014 • 5 metric tons of donations in 2015 • 7.3 •7
metric tons in 2016
metric tons in 2017
• For a total of almost 22 metric tons of donations collected since 2014 ...benefitting thousands of children in need!
We could not travel to Antananarivo without visiting Father Pedro and his assistants. The Foundation team took the Air France Cargo agents to visit the crèche financed by the Air France Foundation. Fr Pedro next spoke of all the work they are doing in his village... We also met several Ladies who work in a quarry – a very backbreaking job! As Fr Pedro says: “These courageous Ladies deserve a capital “L”! The donations drive collected a total of 875 cartons weighing 7 metric tons in all.
Events in France and worldwide
Testimonial
Testimonial
Frédéric Burban
Jimmy Coco
“Madagascar, where 93% of the population live below the poverty line, has a decidedly poor record! Throughout my secondment here, I have seen Cécile and her team arriving with so much empathy, goodheartedness and professionalism. The Foundation’s professionalism is seen in the close monitoring of the charities it helps and its in-depth examination of their applications for funding, which are growing steadily. Thanks to the Foundation, I was able to leave the “comfort zone” that expatriation often confines you to, by discovering the reality of life for th vast majority of Madagascans, and also by seeing the work of charities at first hand, amazed at the people who spend their lives helping others This experience alongside the Foundation showed me that Air France also knows how to give, and my own very modest contribution undoubtedly helped me to grow!” Frédéric Burban Air France Regional Manager, Madagascar, from 2012 to end-June 2017
“I became a Foundation Ambassador only recently, but in the past I have always taken part in its donation drives and other initiatives. This is a very enriching role, very emotional and demanding a lot of empathy. The human factor is really central to our work, and being on the spot and meeting the beneficiaries of our initiatives makes our wor even more meaningful. To see all these smiling faces, and their almost permanent joie de vivre despite the sometimes grinding poverty, makes us think about all the things, however small, that we can do to help those most in need. What for us, for example, might be just a box of pens, is a vital component, somewhere else, for keeping a class going for several weeks.” Jimmy Coco Air France Cabin Crew Air France Foundation Ambassador
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Events in France and worldwide
Operation Run-Up With Operation Run-Up, Air France is really getting into running, and has invited all employees to follow suit! 180 employees from Air France Head Office, Montreuil, and oulouse, some of them hardened runners, others Sunday joggers, have been out running so that children can see their fondest dreams come true. The number of km covered was transformed into hard cash and the funds raised, totalling 3,629 euros, were donated to the Air France Foundation. The day’s event had two aims: to bring staff together under the Air France Foundation banner and to get together among runners a few days before the Paris marathon, which is sponsored by Air France.
A big Thank You to all staff who rallied round to make this initiative a success!
On the strength of the Run-Up event, the Air France Foundation was able to support a project engineered by the MAKE A WISH charity, to help Samuel turn his dream of visiting the Legoland theme park in Denmark into reality. The park is located in Billund, in the west of Denmark. It is a small town with a population of just 6,000, which has built itself around Lego. Samuel was treated to a lovely, pirate-themed room just 450m from the theme park. He and his family were able to visit the Lego factory and enjoy the park’s attractions.
Events in France and worldwide
HOP! Air France Blitz initiative
A Blitz in this case is a high-impact initiative involving a punchy, 6-minute presentation of the Company.
In addition to informing travel agents about HOP! Air France’s short-haul operations and its new products, such as the Weekend Card, the new benefits linked to the travel discount card and the first anniversa y of the Young Traveller’s Card, the initiative was also an opportunity to unite teams around the HOP! Air France offering. Hop! Air France brought together 170 Hop! and Air France sales personnel (85 two-person teams), who visited almost 1,100 travel agencies throughout France. For each travel agent seen, 3 euros were donated to the Foundation for the benefit of charity MAKE A WISH, whic helps to fulfil the dreams of children with serious health conditions. The Hop! Air France Blit initiative raised 3,249 euros Nine-year-old Aurane dreamed of going to London to visit the Harry Potter Studios. She lives in the eastern suburbs of Paris with her parents and sister Siloé. On 29 August, the whole family were met at the Gare du Nord in Paris with presents for Aurane and Siloé, who were delighted! Aurane was so impatient to arrive she could hardly keep still! On arrival in London, a taxi was waiting to take them directly to their hotel, with a great view of Big Ben. Aurane was completely relaxed as soon as the tour of the Harry Potter Studio began. She was amazed to discover the Studio’s wizard sets. Aurane and her family are unlikely ever to forget their trip to London!
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In-Company Events
The Air France Foundation celebrates
25 years
In-Company Events
The day was organized around the theme of the fairground and superheroes, with a vast range of fun events. The day could be summed up as follows - the opening parade of the 501st Star Wars Legion, thanks to the charity Les Lutins du Phoenix, followed by magic shows, sporting challenges with the charity Sport dans la Ville, a music set with a DJ, balloon modelling, Hook-a-Duck, a coconut shy, as well as activities to raise First Aid awareness with Pompiers Sans Frontières, and hearing awareness with AuditionSolidarité, an introduction to yoga with the Air France Sports Association, a graffiti workshop wit the charity AVVEJ, and much more. A large number of initiatives and partnerships were organized, including a superhero-themed meal at the Company restaurant at Head Office, a phot booth set up by the Air France Economic Oversight works council, and a sale of “I love my job” calendars, with proceeds donated to the Air France Foundation and the CEFAA training centre, all for the pleasure of agents and their children, who were treated to complimentary candy floss, smoothies, crêpes, toffe apples, and much more. The ceremony to present a cheque to the charity Graines de Joie, attended by its patron Frédérick BOUSQUET, World and Olympic swimming champion, was a high point of the celebrations. The donation was made possible by Air France passengers buying items in aid of humanitarian causes aboard Company aircraft. Air France donated a total of 37,981 euros to charity Graines de Joie! The winners of the “Imagine your Superhero” competition organized for the children of Air France personnel aged 5 to 15 were rewarded for their imagination. A large number of children took part. It was a wonderful day to celebrate the Air France Foundation’s 25th anniversary and its dedication to children.
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In-Company Events
Cabin Crew Division Forum
In November, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Air France Foundation, all the fligh divisions organized a grand Forum at the Flight Crew Centre involving large numbers of pilots, hostesses and stewards working with humanitarian organizations. The aim was partly to present and explain the Foundation to flight crews, and to spotlight th charities taking part as well, namely Mulemba, Aviation Sans Frontières, Graines de Joie, FLY n’ Kiss, La Banda de Música, Make a Wish, and SIPAR. It was a lovely occasion, all about sharing.
Christmas Market It has now become a tradition that every year the Foundation organizes a Christmas Market featuring a large number of stands selling handicrafts from around the world presented by some of the Foundation’s partner charities. Steward Bernard Laurance was on-hand to sign copies of his new book, VEGE-TERRIEN, the proceeds from which go to the Air France Foundation. Air France employees also benefitted from the delicious culina y presentations by students from the CEEFA catering school, with chocolate fountains, fruit skewers and mocktails! Father and Mother Christmas also honoured us with their presence for the traditional souvenir photo!
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In-Company Events
Sale of calendars for the benefit of the Foundation as part of the “I Love My Job� campaign
GRAND RAFFLE for the benefit of the children cared for by charity GRAINES DE JOIE The Air France Foundation partners the charity Graines de Joie, which was set up to provide material assistance for children in need in Romania, Burkina Faso and Brazil. The Foundation lent a helping hand with their annual raffle by organizing the sale of raffle tickets at the Air France Head Office and at Air France Montreuil, with several employees who volunteer with the charity.
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In-Company Events
Exhibitions
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In-Company Events
Every year, the Air France Foundation organizes a series of exhibitions for Company personnel to better publicize its initiatives.
Madagascar mission photo exhibition
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Envoie ta création à : Fondation Air France ST.JY - Bat. 5 Siège ou mail.fondationaf@airfrance.fr Précise ton nom, celui de tes parents et tes coordonnées résultat le 15 novembre 2017, rue du Siège réglement sur demande
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The Air France Foundation Awards 2017
The Air France Foundation Awards were created in 2009 to honour the women and men who work with sick, disabled and vulnerable children and young people.
At this seventh edition held at the Musée des Arts Forains fairground museum in Paris, the main Award went to charity L’ENVOL for children in Europe. The event also provided an opportunity to look back at the first 25 years of the Ai France Foundation – 25 years spent helping children. The Air France-KLM Chairman and CEO, and Foundation President, Jean-Marc Janaillac, congratulated the Foundation for its audacity, its experience, its dedication, and its success over the past quarter-century. Some 400 guests were invited to take part in this human adventure in the magical setting of the museum. It was wonderful to witness the dedication of the speakers, to gain an insight into the hearts and minds of these charities and the success of their projects, to laugh along with the musical antics of quartet Les Sourds Doués (clarinet, trumpet, French horn and bass clarinet), and applaud staff who were awarded medals for their services. Jean Marc Janaillac presented the 2017 Award to Tatiana Nourissat, the President of L’ENVOL, and her Patron, journalist Marie Drucker, who was over the moon at this recognition. Abdou, 25, and Naève, 15, gave moving testimonials of their many residential stays at L’ENVOL. Valérie Expert the long-time presenter of the Air France Foundation Awards compered the evening with Air France Foundation Managing Director Cécile Vic. Throughout the evening there was joy, there was emotion, there was gravitas, and there was admiration. All the ingredients were present to ensure that the guests had a thoroughly good time taking part in this anniversary celebration, congratulating L’ENVOL, and sharing pleasure and a sense of solidarity over a sparkling cocktail as they explored this magical venue that reawakened the child in them.
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Thank you to all my team for their dedication alongside me Cécile Vic
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The Air France Foundation Awards 2017
L’ENVOL,
winner of the Air France Foundation Award 2017
L’ENVOL was founded by Henri and Christina Tézenas du Montcel with support from Paul Newman. The firs residential stays were organized in 1997 at the Château de Boulains, near Fontainebleau.
The charity has been recognized as a public interest organization since 2001, is endorsed by the French Youth and Sport Ministry, and has been a member of the SeriousFun Children’s Network since it was set up 20 years ago.
Over the past two decades, some 8,000 children and their families have been cared for by the charity. L’ENVOL was set up to improve the lives of children with life limiting illnesses by fulfilling their personal potential. Its role i to support children and their families faced with illness on their pathway to personal reconstruction. L’ENVOL also aims to provide psychological and social support for seriously ill children and young people aged six to seventeen by organizing one-week residential stays for families entirely free of charge. L’ENVOL organizes sports and cultural activities that are emotionally, physically and medically safe.
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The Air France Foundation Awards
Tribute to Tatiana Nourissat, President of l’ENVOL
Joanna Jammes, L’ENVOL Chief Executive, Marie Drucker, journalist, Patron of L’ENVOL, Tatiana Nourissat, President of the charity L’ENVOL, Cécile Vic, Managing Director of the Air France Foundation and Jean-Marc Janaillac, Air France-KLM Chairman and CEO and President of the Air France Foundation.
When Professor Lenoir, then President of L’ENVOL, died in 2011, Tatiana agreed to become acting President, despite her professional and family obligations. She enjoyed a certain historic legitimacy due to the charity’s ties to her mother, but she had never planned to commit to L’ENVOL in this way. Her mother, a remarkable, charismatic woman, who was convinced that L’ENVOL was a charity needed by sick children, was President of L’ENVOL from 2002 to 2006. This familial legitimacy rapidly transformed into a true legitimacy. Tatiana’s personal commitment is undoubted and unchallenged: she has never stinted her efforts, even during the difficult times experienced by ’ENVOL and, with the help of the charity’s Board of Trustees, she has been able to adapt to the necessary changes it has undergone. Air France is a founder member of L’ENVOL, which is one more reason to present the Air France Foundation Award 2017 to this outstanding charity.
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The Air France Foundation Awards
Brigitte Karlsson, Isabelle Fauqueux, Franck Félicité Zulma and Brigitte Mechaan, four Air France employees rewarded for their humanitarian commitment
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Thank you Brigitte for your very valuable help
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Franck Félicité Zulma is an Analyst working with Air France Cargo. Since 2014, he has been helping the Air France Foundation, especially during the now annual donation drive, with tremendous enthusiasm and good humour. He has become a rock for the Foundation team.
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Thank you Franck for your commitment with us
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Isabelle Fauqueux is an airhostess and purser. Mainly, though, she is all heart… She is a very committed and dedicated volunteer, for the Air France Foundation, of course, but also for Aviation Without Borders and helps to transport many sick children. Isabelle also volunteers for the charity Joue Moi de la Musique, which brings together professional musicians, specially trained to work in hospitals, in particular with children. She is a generous and incredibly committed person.
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Thank you Isabelle for your caring dedication
Brigitte Karlsson Brigitte started out as a 22-year-old hostess with UTA before moving to Air France, where she worked on medium-haul routes for 15 years. She was promoted purser and finished up on long-haul before she retired Today, she helps primary school children with their homework. She has also volunteered with Secours Populaire for the past four years, and is a stalwart volunteer for the Air France Foundation. The entire Foundation team appreciates her kindness and dedication.
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Brigitte Mechaan started out at Air France in the VIP lounge, where she did an excellent job, especially thanks to her energy and kindness. She subsequently joined the safety and rescue teams working with fligh crews, and then the Logistics Works Council. She finished her caree helping to manage cabin crew. Brigitte also does voluntary work for the cancer charity SKIN. She never goes unnoticed, either for her robust commitments, or for her unfailing kindness.
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The Friends of the Foundation Network
The Friends of the Foundation Network Our aim: participatory dedication at Air France
The Friends of the Foundation Le Réseau des Amis de la Network Fondation
The Air France Foundation, An entity rooted in the Company’s social fabric
A corporate Foundation helps to motivate staff by uniting them around a shared project via an array of means, including voluntary work and donations. When they take on board the Foundation’s objectives, the support of company staff can help cement the Company’s social cohesion. Setting up a Foundation can also be a means of structuring the founding company’s patronage policy. In addition, the permanent nature of a Foundation puts patronage initiatives on a long-term footing and makes it a full-blown strategic choice. To step up Air France personnel participation, the Friends of the
Foundation Network today involves over 3,500 agents. Their support for the Foundation’s projects has become a factor cementing social cohesion at Air France. When you become a member of the Friends of the Foundation Network, you get the latest news about ongoing projects, can pass on this information to colleagues, and, most importantly, take part in volunteer initiatives with partner charitable organization and in events organized by the Air France Foundation. We also count on the work of the Foundation’s 250 Ambassadors, whose role is to help bolster in-house communication.
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French Guiana: press conference September 2017
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Montpellier: press conference October 2017
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Programme for
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Programme for 2017
1,340 94 76 6 12
projects supported since 1992
projects funded in 2017 projects for vulnerable children projects for children with disabilities projects for sick children
In 2017
The Air France Foundation funded
94 projects
Africa & Middle East 32 projects France
28 projects Asia
14 projects Latin America 10 projects Caribbean & Indian Ocean 8 projects Europe
2 projects
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32 Projects supported in Africa and the Middle East in 2017
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Projects for vulnerable children
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Projects for children with disabilities
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Africa & Middle East South Africa
Egypt
Morocco
Furnishing of 24 crèches in a Cape township
Protection, education and integration for vulnerable children
Humanitarian mission in aid of deaf children
Froggies Family €20,000
FACE For Children In Need €24,000
The Little People Project €19,000
Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement (IECD) €20,000
Angola
Ethiopia
École des Bougainvillées
Combating FGM and early marriage for girls through education
Programme for deaf children
Association Mulemba €9,700
Benin
France Développement Togo/Bénin €8,000
Construction and outfitting of a libra y and media centre
Terres Rouges €25,000
Electrical vocational training
Femmes solidaires €25,000
Ghana OAfrica €12,000
Support for children with disabilities
Project to aid the vocational integration of street children
Guinea
Burkina Faso
“ADF” school
AD’RFaso €30,000
Construction of three classrooms and a toilet block for Cassou Middle School
UN NOM, UN TOIT, UNE VIE €10,000 Alternative education
Cameroon
Centre des Jeunes Aveugles Accueil Notre Dame de la Paix €19,900
Dormitory refurbishment and enlargement at the Dschang Centre
Congo Brazaville Letili Actions France €15,000
Rebuilding the school at Bandzié
Côte d’Ivoire Savoir Ivoire €20,000
Building a canteen at La Colombe Primary School, Abidjan
Aide et Action €25,000
Conseil National des associations de Jeunes Guinéens de France €25,000 Solar school backpacks with lights
Le Partenariat €15,000
AuditionSolidarité €25,000 Biblionef €20,000
Project to help vulnerable young people to access books
Niger
Grandir Dignement €20,000
Training and schooling for incarcerated minors
Yara Les Nouveaux Constructeurs €20,000
Building a boarding school for disadvantaged children in Niamey
Central African Republic Triangle Génération Humanitaire €20,000 Integrating Bangui’s street children
Democratic Republic of Congo Dynamo International €50,000
Building an emergency hostel in Kinshasa
Improving schooling conditions
Senegal
Lebanon
Purchasing a vehicle to transport circus performers
Apprentis d’Auteuil €30,000
Sencirk €20,000
Laying out a playground
Chad
Mali
Developing reading skills through fun reading
ADESAF Association pour le Développement Economique et Sociale en Afrique €15,000 Improving schooling conditions at Sobanou school
AGIRabcd Délégation Basse-Normandie €2,500 Building a classroom
SamusocialInternational €25,000 Caring for street children
Association Poitiers Moundou €25,000
Togo
Coup de Pousse €25,000
Building a Middle School
Solidarité Sida €20,000
Strengthening and developing social and educational activities
Turkey Ma Belle École €10,000
Art workshops for refugee children
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SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
Furnishing of 24 crèches in a Cape township
Programme for deaf children
Froggies Family
Furnishing for 24 crèches, installation of mezzanines
PURCHASE of school furniture and materials
Charity Froggies Family is contributing to developing Cape Town’s townships. It supports sustainable projects run by local organizations, working with local charity Teach Love Care Network, which is involved in support and development for poor communities. In the townships of South Africa, crèches struggle to obtain funds to renew their educational materials and furniture, and to make their premises compliant. The project supported will pay for the installation of mezzanines and playground furniture to create acceptable reception and schooling conditions. The operation will mean that 972 children can be cared for in good conditions, ensuring greater academic success and improved social integration.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
The Little People Project The chief aim of The Little People Project is to help projects that have a significant impact on the education of children in South Africa. The charity publishes a newsletter intended to raise awareness among the population about the need for education among very young children from disadvantaged communities. In Hornlee, the nearest school for deaf and hearing-impaired children is 390km away. As a result, it is impossible for children to obtain a suitable education. In 2013, the Sivuyile apprenticeship centre saw its first intake of children learning signing, English and mathematics. This year The Little People Project and the Air France Foundation have teamed up to support schooling for the deaf and hearing-impaired children of Hornlee and abolish their isolation, give them self-confidence and provide a healthy diet.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €19,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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ANGOLA
Association Mulemba École des Bougainvillées Mulemba helps children who have been orphaned or who are collateral victims of the armed conflic that ended in 2002, and creates places to live and receive an education. In 2004, Mulemba had already worked in partnership with the Air France Foundation to build a school. Angola is currently experiencing a severe economic crisis, which has repercussions on the children’s schooling. Even if the government has increased the number of school places, the country’s rocketing population and the lack of any teacher recruitment since 2014 have meant that many children are being left out of the education system. Since 2013, the charity has provided schooling for children from the surrounding community, paying special attention to families living in poverty. This partnership is designed to provide a basic education to 230 children in six classes and enable them to acquire the knowledge required to access a class corresponding to their age.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €9,700 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
BENIN
France Développement Togo Bénin Construction and outfitting of a library and a media centre The charity was set up to care for young orphans in Togo and Benin. Its work mainly involves building reception centres where children attending school benefit from a quality diet and medical care. France Développement Togo Bénin is setting up teaching farms in each centre to help them function. The charity also organizes educational programmes that combine general knowledge and traditional culture. The Air France Foundation is funding the construction and outfitting of a library/media centre that will form part of the charity’s new reception centre. A computer room will also be set up and staffed by youth workers. The partnership around these two projects aims to optimize child reception capacity, increase learning opportunities, and provide access to new technologies.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €8,000 for this project
BENIN
Terres Rouges Project to provide vocational training for street children Charity Terres Rouges supports projects to help the most vulnerable people, especially street children and teenagers. It offers reception facilities, accommodation, dietary and health care, protection and basic education. Schooling and/or vocational training are also available, as well as psychosocial counselling. The project supported has two components. The firs involves providing vocational training for 35 young people (males and females aged 14 to 18) and helping them to become self-sufficient after their training in a variety of trades. This will be achieved with the help of a network of workshop owners ready to train the young people. The second component is the creation of a bakery that will not only help to meet the high demand for training in this field, but will also provide a permanent income stream for the charity.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
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BURKINA FASO
BURKINA FASO
Construction of three classrooms and a toilet block for Cassou Middle School
Alternative education
AD’RFaso
AD’RFaso carries out projects in the areas of agriculture, education, and access to water in three different regions of Burkina Faso. In the north of the country, it facilitates access to drinking water and ultimately wants to support reforestation and market gardening projects. In the centre, it is developing market gardening, and in the south, it aims to improve schooling conditions for village children. In Burkina Faso, education is a priority but the country has very few resources. The authorities in the municipality of Cassou asked charity AD’RFaso to help improve reception conditions at the village’s second middle school. The aim is therefore to build three new classrooms for students in Years 8, 9 and 10, as well as to build separate toilets for girls and boys, encouraging improved schooling conditions for students and better hygiene.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €30,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
UN NOM, UN TOIT, UNE VIE The charity has two missions: to help disadvantaged communities, and especially young people and women, and to work to protect the environment. It is involved in running a community primary school, sponsoring close to 180 students, providing material support for poor families, and organizing social and cultural activities, manual workshops and outside games. In Burkina Faso, schools have intakes, from Year 2 onwards, of 70 to 250 students per class. This is not conducive to a good education, already delayed by the lack of effective free, pre-schooling. This community school, thanks to small numbers and low cost, helps them to benefit from a personalized education in classes of fewer than 35 students. Thanks to a donation of 50 computers and 8 photovoltaic kits, the charity can put in place Montessori-style activity workshops that encourage discovery, self-sufficiency, and learning while opening up the school to new technologies.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project
CAMEROON
Centre Des Jeunes Aveugles Accueil Notre Dame de la Paix Dormitory refurbishment and enlargement at the centre The Centre des Jeunes Aveugles was founded in 1975 by Paul Tezanou. Born blind, he was fortunate enough to learn braille, which transformed his life. He dreamt of offering this same opportunity to other blind youngsters in Cameroon. Thanks to him, around 30 blind or visually-impaired children and teenagers are able to learn braille each year, so that they can attend primary and secondary school. They are also housed and supported by youth workers during their schooling. The original boys’ dormitory buildings are today dilapidated. The Air France Foundation was asked to help refurbish and enlarge the dormitory. The aim is to house 40 boarders and give blind and visually-impaired young people from Cameroon and neighbouring countries a better chance in life.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €19,900 for this project
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CONGO BRAZZAVILLE
CÔTE D’IVOIRE
EGYPT
Rebuilding the school at Bandzié
Building a canteen at the “La Colombe” primary school in Abidjan
Protection, education and integration for vulnerable children
Letili Actions France Congo Letili Actions France Congo was set up to help rehabilitate school and medical buildings in Zanaga and in rural areas in the Republic of the Congo. It equips the schools and helps children in difficult . The country is in such a dire economic situation that the government cannot provide the infrastructure necessary for over half of its population made up of young people aged 6-30, and especially for those living in rural areas such as Bandzié, some 300km from Brazzaville. The Air France Foundation is funding the reconstruction of the Bandzié primary school with a new building comprising three classrooms, an offi e for the principal, and a room that will be used both as a library and computer room. At present, the building’s dilapidated state is a threat to life and limb for the 119 students and their teachers. It is essential for the school to be returned to an ideal, safe state for learning to stop families leaving the village due to the lack of a school.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project
Savoir Ivoire
Savoir Ivoire was founded to promote the development of schooling, and supports nine state schools. It renovates classrooms and school buildings, improving them and their environment. It also helps to lay out botanic and kitchen gardens, and builds toilet blocks and playground drinking fountains. Last, teaching staff also benefit from significant pedagogical follow-up, thanks to the charity. The “La Colombe” primary school caters to children in Abobo, a neighbourhood in the northern suburbs of Abidjan. Since the charity has partnered the school, the children’s results have steadily improved. That said, the principal and the staff have noticed that many students did not return home to eat at lunchtime, as they lived too far away. The project funded involves building a suitable, salubrious room so that the children can stay at school and eat in good conditions in order to combat malnutrition.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
FACE for Children In Need
The charity seeks to help and protect abandoned youngsters and street children and their families and communities and to prepare them for a better life by boosting their self-confidence. In Egypt, the street children issue is largely seen from a repressive angle. They are considered to be delinquents and not as the victims of abuse, leading to social and administrative discrimination. The pilot project launched in 2015, in partnership with the Air France Foundation, was based on the realization that growing numbers of children had been arrested and imprisoned since 2013. Two centres for minors were accordingly set up at the time. Today, this partnership has been renewed in order to set up four new centres and train personnel to help protect and integrate street children, the aim being to guarantee access to remedial, social and mental health services for more young people to ease their integration into mainstream society.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €24,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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EGYPT
Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement (IECD) Electrical vocational training IECD is an international development aid organization set up in 1988. In Egypt, the energy sector is growing rapidly and is faced with large-scale needs for skilled labour. Despite this, almost a third of young people are unemployed: there is a mismatch between their education and the needs of businesses. IECD is working alongside the Graines d’Espérance project to train young people as electricians to better meet fi ms’ requirements. The partnership with the Air France Foundation began in 2013 with two technical schools, one in Cairo, and one in Alexandria. Some 1,819 young people have benefitted from the project, and 99% of those who passed their diplomas in 2015 are now working or in higher education. The IECD now wants to implement its project in a state school in Cairo.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
ETHIOPIA
GHANA
Combating FGM and early marriage for girls through education
Support for children with disabilities
Femmes solidaires
The charity’s founding values are secularism, gender diversity, equal rights for women, peace and freedom. Charity Femmes Solidaires is committed to combating all forms of discrimination against women and enjoys a special advisory role to the United Nations. The Afar region in north-east Ethiopia has been left on the margins of development. Girls are the first victims of poverty. They rarely go to school and are condemned to doing the daily chores. Customs such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and early marriage keep them in situations of extreme vulnerability. Femmes Solidaires and local charity Gamissa have been combating FGM and infibulation since 2005 by sponsoring and providing schooling for girls. In 2015, a boarding school was opened to house them. The Air France Foundation funded the work to extend the boarding unit to increase its intake capacity and improve its educational and sports facilities.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
OAfrica Charity OAfrica focuses its activity on projects involving vulnerable children in Ghana. It supports families and communities so that their children can grow up in a stable environment. The three roles of OAfrica are saving at-risk children, evaluating conditions for family reunification, and identifying biological families. The charity also supports a programme of physical and mental health assistance. In Ghana it is difficult, if not impossible, for children and young adults with disabilities or who are victims of abuse to become active members of their communities when they require special support or protection. OAfrica achieves integration by strengthening family ties and integrating the children into a family environment. This partnership aims to help children who have been abandoned due to their disability. They are entrusted to foster mothers trained to provide them with suitable care and, more importantly, love and encouragement, to help the young people in their personal development.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €12,000 for this project
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GUINEA
Aide et Action “Amie Des Filles” school Aide et Action is an international solidarity and development organization set up to promote the cause of education for all. Because Guinea is one of the world’s least developed nations, its educational system faces multiple difficulties: 30% of primary school-age girls do not go to school and the percentage climbs to 75% at secondary level. The “École Amie Des Filles” project, which began in 2011, has been in partnership with the Air France Foundation for the past three years. The main objective is to foster the emergence of an environment conducive to keeping children in school and helping them succeed, especially the girls. This year, the aim is to contribute to the professional qualification of teaching staff and identify local educational priorities.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
GUINEA
Conseil National des associations des Jeunes Guinéens de France(CNJGF) Solar school backpacks with lights The role of the CNJGF is to coordinate all associations of young Guineans in France in order to generate synergy among them by operating a network of exchanges. Its field of action is mainly education. In Guinea, the school dropout rate in rural areas is higher than the national average. The project supported aims to provide 2,000 students with backpacks equipped with a solar-powered light. Fitted with a rechargeable solar panel, a battery with five hours’ autonomy, and a small LED light, the Solarpak is colourful and very easy to use. The solar panel stores the energy harvested on the way to school and, once night falls, the student simply has to connect the LED light to the USB socket built into the backpack. The backpack should help to boost academic success levels by giving the children the possibility of doing their homework in complete safety.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
GUINEA
Le Partenariat Improving schooling conditions Charity Le Partenariat, which has operated in Guinea since 2015, has implemented the PAEMS Programme for access to water in schools, in conjunction with the Ministry of Pre-University Education and Literacy. In the region of Labé, the school environment is unhealthy and there is no safe drinking water, which has a negative impact on students’ health and learning conditions. The lack of specific facilities such as access to clean water, standalone toilets and fencing are factors in failure and dropout rates and the spread of disease. This makes students’ learning conditions extremely precarious especially for girls. The programme supported aims to offer local authorities an integrated package with a connection to mains water and the construction of infrastructure: standalone toilets, drinking fountains, and fences to equip 12 schools and raise awareness among teaching staff and students of hygiene issues.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project
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LEBANON
Apprentis d’Auteuil Laying out a playground The Apprentis d’Auteuil Foundation is a public interest organization. It has worked for over 150 years via 250 schools to provide access to quality education and training by supporting families to ensure improved integration of at-risk young people. Lebanon is bearing the full brunt of the fallout from the Syrian crisis, which has triggered an exceptional increase in its population. The Apprentis d’Auteuil is supporting a local body to develop three centres that it has set up to help at-risk children, young people and their families. The project seeks to provide comprehensive care for girls, academic catch-up sessions, exemption from school fees, and donations of educational supplies. It also plans to organize social and educational and sports activities, awarenessraising workshops for children and young people, and inter- and intra-community activities in Hammana and Roueisset. These include theatre lessons, excursions, exchange groups, etc. Last, a playground was also built at the Sehailé centre, a fully-equipped facility for which Air France Foundation funding was requested.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €30,000 for this project
MALI
Association pour le Développement Economique et Social en Afrique (ADESAF) Improving schooling conditions at Sobanou school ADESAF operates in four fields: water supply, agriculture, vocational training, and education, in several countries in Africa. In 2014, primary school teachers at the school in Sobanou informed ADESAF of the difficulty of providing schooling for some of the local children, especially those from Sobanou Haut, 3 km from the school. Some of these students were unable to return home at lunchtime, and so dropped out of school; others suffered from malnutrition and had developed waterborne diseases. The present project was designed to improve schooling conditions for the school’s 150-student intake by satisfying urgent needs for food and a supply of drinking water. It also planned to set up a kitchen garden to supply a school canteen.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
MALI
AGIRabcd Délégation BasseNormandie Building a classroom The charity operates for the benefit of the most disadvantaged people. In France, it focuses on solidarity initiatives and help for integration. Elsewhere, in developing countries, it organizes economic, cultural and educational initiatives. The Dogon country has not been particularly affected by the political situation in Mali, but the economic situation is still diffi ult, nevertheless. The government invests very little in the region and teaching conditions there are dire. This results in a substantial dropout rate when students progress from primary to secondary education. The children leave the educational system to work in the fields or to marry. The present project involved building a fully-equipped classroom in Sedourou, and electrifying classrooms in Tanouwan and Amani. This will decrease the number of students dropping out. In addition, AGIRabcd plans to produce a slide show for French Year 3 classes featuring a study of lifestyles in an African village designed to nip everyday racism in the bud.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €2,500 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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MOROCCO
MOROCCO
Caring for street children
Humanitarian mission in aid of deaf children
The experience of Samusocial’s founder with some of France’s most at-risk people prompted him to rethink the approach to care for those most excluded from society and to set up SamusocialInternational in 1998. For the past five years, Mali has been confronted with a very serious security crisis in the north of the country, where government forces are combating armed groups of rebels, jihadists and drug traffickers. As a result, the efforts of the government and NGOs are concentrated in conflict zones, leaving the south and the capital Bamako to fend for themselves. Because of this, Bamako is now seeing growing numbers of street children, victims of family feuds, of violence and/ or other forms of abuse. SamusocialInternational provides medical and mental health support for young people in Bamako and runs educational discussions. The present project is aimed at strengthening Samusocial’s day-to-day presence among these youngsters with day and night outreach teams checking the capital’s streets.
AuditionSolidarité equips deaf children and vulnerable people with hearing aids by recycling deaf equipment. The Zohour Centre is located in the poverty-stricken suburbs of Adagir. During the charity’s first fact-findin mission in 2012, some 198 children were lacking hearing aids. In Morocco, audio-prosthetists are rare and access to speech therapy almost non-existent. To keep things on a long-term footing, AuditionSolidarité always commits to return to the places it visits and carry on its work; as a result, it will return to the Zohour Centre. The charity’s constant goal is to ensure definitive self-sufficiency for each school helped. At present, the partnership is seeking to purchase audiology equipment, recondition around 2,000 used hearing aids, and acquire the equipment needed for a second visit.
Helping vulnerable young people to access books
SamusocialInternational
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
AuditionSolidarité
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Biblionef
Since 1992, Biblionef’s mobile libraries have been helping disadvantaged children and teenagers in 100 countries to gain access to books. Every year, it contributes to the creation of public, school, and community libraries on six continents. It supplies these bodies with a basic collection sourced from regular contributions from publishers that donate their excess stock. In Morocco, too many children grow up without ever having access to any books at all, to the detriment of their personal fulfilment and cultural world-view. The Air France Foundation was asked to fund a project to set up libraries in 70 rural schools and in some disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Some 7,000 new, French-language books specially chosen for them will enable 3,000 youngsters aged 4-16 to develop good reading habits from an early age.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
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NIGER
Grandir Dignement Training and schooling for incarcerated minors Charity Grandir Dignement works with minors who have had problems with the law. It operates simultaneously in prisons and in open environments on alternatives to detention and community service. It helps young people in prison by promoting an educational and more humane penal justice system via alternative sentences. Grandir Dignement raises awareness about their situation among government and non-government bodies and the general public. The 125 young people aged 13-18 imprisoned in Niamey and Zinder are especially vulnerable. They come from extremely disadvantaged environments such as rural areas and very poor neighbourhoods. The charity is pursuing a project to train up the youngsters to trades to guarantee their integration once released. It is also putting food support in place due to the poor detention conditions that are harmful to their health. This theoretical and practical teaching involves both academic catch-up and training in car mechanics and sewing.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
NIGER
Yara Les Nouveaux Constructeurs Building a boarding school for disadvantaged children in Niamey The work of the charity Yara Les Nouveaux Constructeurs involves improving living conditions and access to education for disadvantaged communities. In Niger, few children are enrolled in education and teaching is poor quality due to a lack of supplies and overcrowding. Middle schools are often a long way from the homes of most of Niger’s population, who live in rural areas. Yara Les Nouveaux Constructeurs has built and manages two boarding schools in Zinder and Niamey that currently enable 180 girls and boys from disadvantaged backgrounds to attend a regular, complete school cycle. The charity now wants to build a new boarding school to cater to 150 youngsters on a plot of land donated by the Ministry of Estates and Housing. The project aims to promote the importance of education in Niger, which is vital to stop children dropping out and to delay early marriage and pregnancy among the girls.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Triangle Génération Humanitaire Integrating Bangui’s Street children Founded in 1994, Triangle Génération Humanitaire is an international solidarity organization. It mobilized local resources and skills to ensure that its project tends towards self-sufficiency among the communities it helps. Since the military and political crisis in December 2012, there has been a significant increase in the number of street children in the Central African Republic. The authorities no longer have the ability to take charge of these children due to the lack of security, looting, and displaced populations. The charity accordingly decided to launch a programme to help integrate the street children of Bangui. The idea is to provide them with access to basic education. They are helped to catch up on their studies with a view to enrolling them in schools or starting vocational training, and getting them back into mainstream society by training social workers and boosting the skills of local authorities.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Dynamo International
Providing of a hostel
Providing
medical and psychosocial help for children
Building an emergency hostel in Kinshasa Dynamo International was set up to help defend the rights of the child and improve living conditions for youngsters living on the streets. Despite the relentless increase in the numbers of street children in all the DRC’s bigger cities, there is no emergency reception centre in Kinshasa. The children, who have been rejected by their families, have taken over all the large squares and live by begging. This is why Dynamo International decided to support CATSR, the Support Committee for Street Social Work. CATSR intends to step up its action by opening an emergency reception centre. It aims to be a flagship amenity for street social workers. The amenity is designed to improve provision for the young people in respect of medical, psychological, and social care and help to make them self-sufficient
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €50,000 for this project
SENEGAL
Sencirk
Purchasing a vehicle to transport circus performers Sencirk is a social circus school providing disadvantaged children and teenagers with physical, artistic and civic education centred on the Circus Arts. In Senegal, half the population is under 18 and the educational system is unable to cater to all these young people, so the schooling attrition rate is very high. In parallel, there are religious schools mainly frequented by children who have to beg to survive, creating a street children phenomenon. The Sencirk school seeks to demonstrate that the creative industry can provide solutions for educating these children and fostering social and professional integration for the older ones. By protecting the youngsters from indoctrination and propaganda, the charity hopes to build their self-confidence and trust in others while developing social relationships, a civic spirit, and their creative potential. Sencirk asked the Air France Foundation to fund the purchase of a minibus to transport the performers when touring their shows around the country.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
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Africa & Middle East
CHAD
TOGO
Developing reading skills through fun reading
Building a Middle School
Association Poitiers Moundou
The Poitiers Moundou charity seeks to achieve social justice, intercultural understanding and openness to the world on the basis of values and principles such as international solidarity and exchange. In Chad, school libraries are non-existent, which makes access to books very difficult. After the success of the project to create two “Petites Maisons des Livres” libraries in 2015, the charity now intends to set up libraries in five schools. The project involves the construction and/or rehabilitation of premises and supplying them with electricity using solar panels. It tends also to favour writing for young people from African publishers and training librarians to manage and run their libraries. If the project is successful, it will help develop reading skills through fun reading and the acquisition of the written and oral language skills essential to learning continuity through Middle and High school.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Coup de Pousse Coup de Pousse is a charity set up to help disadvantaged African villages combat long-term poverty by contributing to the deployment of health, water, education and anti-malnutrition infrastructure. The charity has been working in Togo since 2013, and has so far built two crèches, two primary school buildings, and a canteen in four adjacent villages in the north of the country. These villages now need an official, common middle school that will be built by the charity with the support of Togo’s Ministry of Education. The Ministry has promised to dispatch a team of teachers and to pay their wages. Coup de Pousse wishes to erect a building that complies with the Ministry’s recommended layout and construction techniques, and to equip the school with furniture and educational supplies. The project is a genuine opportunity for the region’s children and should also encourage schooling for girls.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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Africa & Middle East
TOGO
TURKEY
Strengthening and developing social and educational activities
Art workshops for refugee children
Solidarité Sida
Solidarité Sida was founded in 1992 and strives to inform, prevent, and help those in need, in France and worldwide, via four principal activities: prevention work among young people, organizing awarenessraising events, supporting bodies combating AIDS, and mobilization. In Togo, children and young people are vulnerable partly due to very early engagement in sexual activity and partly to a lack of information. In Djagblé, the Centre de Jeunes d’Action Santé pour Tous (AST) is the only agency in the surrounding area to tackle this taboo topic. In this third year in existence, the Centre is seeking to expand its activities through new technology skills to facilitate access to information, and improve self-esteem, and professional integration. In 2017-2018, the Centre hopes to sustain its activities while developing prevention activities and beefing up its education offering, especially for help with homework and access to computers.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
Ma Belle École
Ma Belle École is a French charity set up in January 2010 to support education for disadvantaged children in developing countries and war zones. Since 2011, Syria has been embroiled in one of the biggest humanitarian crises of the century. According to UNICEF, 8 million children currently need help in Syria and neighbouring countries. Every day, the Rainbow Centre, the outcome of a volunteer initiative of Syrian refugees in Gaziantep 40km from the Syrian border, caters to Syrian children to protect them and ensure that they continue their schooling and are reacquainted with the fundamentals of social life. Ma Belle École decided to support the Rainbow Centre when it noticed the scarcity of this type of independent, secular initiatives, which contribute to the development of these traumatized children by setting up artistic workshops.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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Latin America
Latin America
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Projects supported in Latin America in 2017 Projects for vulnerable children
Latin America
Argentina Fundación Leer €20,000
Promoting access to education and reading for the children of Formosa
Brazil
Graines de Joie €25,000
Building a new Santissima Trindade training centre
Pixo €15,000
Artistic programme for vulnerable young people
Projeto Uerê €20,000
Photography workshops for child trauma victims
Terra dos Homens €30,000 Support for vulnerable pregnant teenagers
Colombia Enfance 232
€12,000 “Passport to University”
Mission Enfance €20.000
Support for slum children through play
Honduras Paris-Tegu €15,000
Renovating the amphitheatre at the Art and Friendship Cultural Centre
Mexico
La Banda de Música €30,000
A stringed instrument workshop in a slum
Peru
SamusocialInternational €25,000
Health and social risk prevention for child victims of social exclusion (Lima slums)
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Latin America
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ARGENTINA
BRAZIL
BRAZIL
Promoting access to education and reading for the children of Formosa
Building a new training centre
Artistic programme for vulnerable young people
Graines de Joie was founded in 1998 to provide resources help to children in distress. Its work helps them to access schooling, improve their quality of life, and develop educational, sports and cultural activities. In Rio de Janeiro, inequalities are so great that over half of all income is concentrated with just 20% of the population. Campo Grande is a peripheral neighbourhood that was once rural and is now urbanized, densely populated, and forsaken by the government, whereas the need for schools and hospitals is increasingly important. This is where Graines de Joie built its new Santissima Trindade vocational training centre, replacing the former centre, which was too cramped. Some 78 teenagers will be able to attend classes there. Socially and economically integrated, they should escape the potential descent into violence and drug dealing.
Charity Pixo organizes and delivers artistic, cultural and social projects by promoting urban culture. Because children mainly attend school only part-time in Brazil, large numbers of children spend much of their days without any supervision or activity. The areas occupied by the charity are hemmed in and highly marked by inequality and criminality. Set up in 2015, INarte/urbana is a social, cultural and crossdisciplinary project launched by Pixo to develop public space. It offers artistic initiatives whose main aim is to establish dialogue with local people in Rio Grande do Norte. Pixo is developing user-friendly art and culture spaces to breathe life into important centres of everyday life by staging exhibitions, symposia, workshops and awareness raising. The Air France Foundation was asked to help fund a large number of artistic workshops.
Fundación Leer
The Fundación Leer was founded in 1997 to develop and promote programmes to encourage reading and the teaching of literacy for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Formosa region in the north-east of Argentina has the country’s highest poverty rate. Over half of all households live below the poverty line, and the region has one of the worst scores in terms of education. This year’s project was designed to improve teaching conditions at four child development centres in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development. The aim is to give 252 infants and toddlers aged 0-5 access to a quality education. It has three objectives: train youth workers, set up group sessions to involve families, and create “reading nooks” in the centres by acquiring additional books.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
Graines De Joie
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Pixo
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Latin America
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Latin America
BRAZIL
BRAZIL
COLOMBIA
Photography workshops for child trauma victims
Support for vulnerable pregnant teenagers
Passport to University
NGO Projeto Uerê is an alternative school with an intake of 430 children from the Da Maré slum complex, one of the biggest favelas in Rio de Janeiro. They attend a state school for half of the day, and Uerê for the other half. The school’s principal has developed a teaching method tailored to child victims of trauma. The school is free, and provides literacy courses and academic and dietary monitoring. Computer workshops, coaching in capoeira dancing, football, music and encouraging reading are also on offer. Student success rates get more impressive by the year. The project funded is designed to illustrate the everyday reality of the abandoned children in this community through photography. The aim is to help a group of children document their daily lives. They will receive training in photography with a professional. The end-product will be a book and an exhibition.
Terra dos Homens promotes and strengthens the role of the family and community by defending children and teenagers whose rights have been, or are at risk of, being infringed. Since 2008, Terra dos Homens has spearheaded projects with the Mangueirinha community on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Several studies have revealed high numbers of teenage pregnancies and endemic domestic violence in this community. These single mothers, lacking any source of income, often do not have the support of their families. They do not know how to cope with the arrival of their child or children, towards whom they often behave violently. The present project involves organizing a weekly discussion group where the mothers can speak with professionals about their experience of pregnancy and motherhood. Ultimately, the objective is to reduce domestic violence and the separation of children from their families.
Projeto Uerê
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Terra dos Homens
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €30,000 for this project
Enfances 232 Enfances 232 was founded in 2002 as the outcome of non-profit efforts to combat the worst forms of child labour. It has helped close to 200 children and teenagers from families displaced by the civil war in Colombia to obtain help with their schooling along with health and nutrition monitoring and support. Almost 10 million Colombians have been affected by the violence that ravaged the country for over six decades. During that time, some 4 million people were displaced by the confl ct. The peace agreement signed in 2016 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and Bogotá was named World Peace Capital in 2017. This project aims to help the centre continue its work, and in particular the “Passport to University” programme, which has been supported by the Air France Foundation since 2013 and is intended to help young people through university.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €12,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Latin America
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COLOMBIA
HONDURAS
Support for slum children through play
Renovating the amphitheatre at the Art and Friendship Cultural Centre
Mission Enfance
Outfitting a play library
providing educational games and toys
Mission Enfance was set up to help children in distress around the world by founding schools, and organizing teacher training and school sponsorships in isolated countries. It works in war zones or areas affected by natural disasters. Mission Enfance has set up a network of six play libraries in five regions across Colombia to counter extreme violence towards children. The games are designed in response to violence among families and in society. They are concentrated on psychomotor development, caring and receptiveness. The project funded involves several play libraries. The one in Bogotá has been laid out with an interior courtyard and sports ground and will be given a new interior refurbishment. The other structures have been stocked with educational games, while mobile play libraries have been created to travel through the Amazon to work with indigenous groups.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
travelling play libraries
Paris-Tegu
Charity Paris-Tegu organizes projects to help disadvantaged young people in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. It promotes access to basic rights and fosters economic, cultural and social integration among its young beneficiaries. In Tegucigalpa, young people in marginal neighbourhoods live in a climate of extreme violence and insecurity. Most public spaces are occupied by gangs intent on crime. Creating healthy, positive spaces for young people was a fundamental need. In its first eight years of existence, the Art and Friendship Cultural Centre (CCAA) significantly expanded its activity, but its openair amphitheatre, a vital space for the Centre’s life, was very dilapidated. Renovating the amphitheatre has created a large space, including an activity area and tiered seating for nearly 120 people.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project
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Latin America
MEXICO
PERU
A stringed instrument workshop in a slum
Health and social risk prevention for child victims of social exclusion in Lima’s slums
La Banda De Música La Banda De Música helps impoverished communities by organizing cultural activities and music teaching. In this way it encourages social mobility, education, stronger ties, and reduced violence. The charity builds workshops and collects donated musical instruments and music materials, repairing them where necessary for use in teaching music and instrument-making. The School has helped the children of La Colonia Vincente Guerrero, a slum at the foot of the Oaxaca municipal rubbish dump, to access cultural activities since 2011. With support from the Air France Foundation, they now have a music school and a wind instrument repair workshop, built in 2014 and 2015. This year’s project consists in funding training for two young people in stringed instrument making so that they can set up a workshop for bowed instruments, with the ultimate goal being to make the workshops self-sustaining and a lasting source of income.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €30,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
SamusocialInternational
The experience of Samusocial’s founder with some of the world’s most at-risk people, accident victims or “victims of life” prompted him to rethink the approach to care for those most excluded from society and to set up SamusocialInternational in 1998. In Peru, rapid population growth and massive internal migration towards Lima in the past 50 years have created marginalized areas on the capital’s outskirts. This has resulted in geographic, economic and social isolation for women and teenagers, as in the case of Santa Rosa District. The charity’s programme there, launched in 2013, consisted in setting up a mobile assistance service delivering free healthcare and organizing awareness-raising initiatives. Now, the programme is seeking to focus specifically on reducing domestic violence and undernourishment among children and teenagers living in the District’s slums, with the support of local schools.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
Collecting and repairing musical instruments
Setting up a stringed-instrument workshop
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Asia
Asia
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Projects supported in Asia in 2017 Projects for vulnerable children
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Asia
Burma
India
Sustainable schooling for poor children
Extending the Kirubalaya young women’s hostel
Échanges Birmanie €5,000
AAVO-Kirubalaya €35,000
Enfants du Mékong €14,000
Clowns Sans Frontières €15,000
Cambodia
ONYVA €30,000
Building a young people’s hostel in Mobye
Krousar Thmey €15,000
Developing artistic activities in Chennai and Pondicherry
Supporting street children at the Poipet reception centre
Housing and schooling for New Delhi’s street children
Sipar €25,000
Nepal
Promoting reading among children in rural communities
China
Les enfants de Madaifu - Association Marcel Roux en Chine €10,000 Schooling for highly vulnerable orphans
Peuples d’Himalaya €10,000
Renovating and rehabilitating a primary school
Philippines CAMELEON €20,000
Protection and integration of young female victims of sexual abuse
Enfants d’Asie €14,000
Encouraging schooling and vocational training
Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation €20,000
Higher education support for disadvantaged young people
Vietnam
Mai Nha children Foundation €25,000
Support for 300 disadvantaged children
SOS Villages d’Enfants €25,000
Improving educational provision at the Nha Trang SOS Children’s Village
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Asia
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Asia
BURMA
BURMA
CAMBODIA
Sustainable schooling for poor children
Building a young people’s hostel in Mobye
Supporting street children at the Poipet reception centre
Enfants du Mékong has been working with disadvantaged children in South East Asia for almost 60 years, providing access to education, from nursery school to their fi st steps in the world of work thanks to a system of sponsorship. In rural areas of Burma such as Mobye, schoolchildren are forced to walk, cycle or bus long distances to go and study due to the lack of infrastructure. Most children go to work in the paddy fields with their parents therefore, for pitiful wages. For almost 30 years, the hostel in Mobye has accommodated 110 young people from villages in the south of Shan and Kayah States, so that they can continue their studies at secondary level and take part in special tutoring and educational activities provided by four teachers. Unfortunately, the building has become too dilapidated and the young people need to be rehoused. This project involves building a new one that will be able to cater to an additional 50 students each year.
Krousar Thmey was founded in 1991 in refugee camps in Thailand. It helps integrate refugees through education in line with their traditions. At present, some 2,600 children from 14 provinces follow an appropriate long-term pathway in line with the Cambodian way of life. Street children are a vulnerable group who do not attend school and live on society’s margins. As a result, they are victims of abuse, trafficking and violence. The charity takes care of them when they arrive at the Poipet centre, which also strives to find permanent solutions for the young people and their families. They attend school, benefit from medical care, and receive psychological support. Social workers organize outreach patrols to go out and meet the street children. They also help the families to start up income-generating activities.
Échanges Birmanie Échanges Birmanie was set up to carry out initiatives to encourage the development of exchanges between France and Burma (Myanmar) in the educational, cultural, economic, social, and healthcare spheres. Its work focuses on achieving sustainable schooling for children in poor families. The military dictatorship had a retrograde effect on education in Burma. The new, democratically elected government is aware how far the country has fallen behind over the decades, but does not have the means to remedy the situation. According to UNICEF, some 4 million of the 11.8 million Burmese children aged 6-15 work, because most children from poor families do not have the means to attend school – especially girls. Schooling costs money and delivers scant returns for the families. Échanges Birmanie seeks to relieve families of obligatory school expenses for materials and uniforms, for example, to help them access medical care and distribute meals in schools.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €5,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Enfants du Mékong
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €14,000 for this project
Krousar Thmey
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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Asia
CAMBODIA
Sipar
Promoting reading among children in rural communities For the past 25 years, Sipar has worked hand-in-hand with Cambodian communities to combat illiteracy and promote education for all. It sets up reading corners and provides training in book-related trades. Sipar initiates and develops voluntary work by encouraging the creation of Youth Clubs in deprived rural areas. Young graduate volunteers recruited by Sipar’s local partner, Youth Star, serve for a year to develop the villages they are sent to. They are tasked with managing and running the Youth Clubs in conjunction with Community Councils. They also undertake to lead activities such as promoting reading through mini-travelling libraries, providing additional tutoring for struggling primary school children, and running awareness campaigns among deprived rural communities. The Sipar team is in charge of creating, monitoring and running the network.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
CHINA
Les Enfants de Madaifu Association Marcel Roux en Chine Schooling for highly-vulnerable orphans For the past ten years and more, the charity has sought to relieve distressed orphans in disadvantaged areas of China. Its “Orphanage Without Walls” programme consists in keeping children within their extended family environment thanks to an allowance that meets the child’s needs and pays their school fees. In China, schooling becomes very expensive from High School onwards, because in addition to the school fees, children need to find accommodation in the towns when there are no boarding facilities; they also need to eat and pay for transport. The less fortunate children have to abandon their schooling. The “Access to High School” programme is designed to help them continue studying. Launched in 2016 thanks to the Air France Foundation, the programme has so far helped 27 orphans from the countryside to stay in school. The Foundation has funded schooling for these young people in 2017/2018.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Allowance
To attend high school
Help to continue studying
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Asia
INDIA
INDIA
Extending the Kirubalaya young womens’ hostel
Developing artistic activities in Chennai and Pondicherry
The Friends of Annai Valanganni Orphanage (AAVO) – Kirubalaya was set up to provide help, development and integration for children in difficulty in Pondicherry and its environs through its reception centre and teaching team. Despite strong economic growth in India, many people are born, live, and die on the streets. In Pondicherry, very few charities are able to take street children under their wing. Kirubalaya, run by a nun, Sister Clara, has acquired real expertise in taking in, caring for, and integrating small girls. The project will fund an extension to the hostel to meet demand from the social services, which asked Sister Clara as a matter of urgency to take in a group of small girls who were victims of violence and sexual abuse. The aim is, therefore, to increase the intake capacity to ensure adequate care for this new group.
Clowns Sans Frontières (CSF) provides moral support for victims of war, poverty, and exclusion by staging live performances with a humanitarian message. The charity aspires to help children living on the streets, or who are displaced or refugees, and involve local charities in order to ensure the long-term survival of its projects. CSF became a UNESCO partner in October 2015. UNICEF has estimated that in India there are some 10 million street children in big cities like Chennai and Pondicherry, which have no real urban planning policies. Since 2015, CSF has supported the creation of a clown collective in order to ensure a lasting framework for the artistic initiatives it has organized with street children in Tamil Nadu since 2008. This initiative supplements the work of child protection organizations. The aim is to increase the number of artistic activities and contribute to improving psychological and social care for vulnerable children.
AAVO – Kirubalaya
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €35,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Clowns Sans Frontières
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project
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INDIA
NEPAL
PHILIPPINES
Housing and schooling for New Delhi’s street children
Renovating and rehabilitating a primary school
ONYVA is a Franco-Indian NGO that provides a family-style accommodation and quality education for children who have no homes or families able to raise them. In New Delhi, “Tara “houses” take in extremely vulnerable children and protect them from the violence of the streets. The children recover their self-confidence and are pa t of a home life. An estimated 100,000 children live on the streets of New Delhi; they are abandoned and at the mercy of all sorts of abuse and trafficking. The government struggles to deliver an adequate response to the scale of the problem because social work is so underdeveloped. The TARA Boys house is home to twenty or so boys aged 6-18 referred there by a children’s judge; they benefit from comprehensive medical checks, and excellent schooling in Hindi and English. The Air France Foundation is funding the care for these boys.
Charity Peuples d’Himalaya carries out its projects in remote areas of Nepal that were cut off by the 2015 earthquakes. It renovates and builds new schools and libraries, provides families with school materials, promotes hygiene prevention and offers medical consultations. In Jaidu, in eastern Nepal, the Air France Foundation was asked to repair and renovate a primary school. Peuples d’Himalaya will continue its direct support for families with donations of shoes and school uniforms, renewing school materials and supporting the teachers. It will also connect a hamlet with 70 homes to a spring.
Protection and integration of young female victims of sexual abuse
ONYVA
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €30,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Peuples d’Himalaya
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
CAMELEON
CAMELEON takes in, protects and integrates girls who have suffered sexual abuse in the Philippines. It also works to improve education, healthcare, work placement and self-sufficiency for deprived young people and their families. In the Philippines, children have accounted for over 75% of cases of sexual abuse since 1999. On Panay island, there are no centres catering specifically to girls who have suffered sexual abuse. The charity’s initial project is to help girls aged 5-17 rebuild their lives: they are taken in and accommodated in two safe houses in the countryside. There, they have access to medical, psychological, and therapeutic care, legal assistance, and extra-curricular activities and sports. There are plans also to integrate 60 girls aged 9-20 into society after a four-year stay at the hostel and until the end of their higher studies.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
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Asie
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Asia
PHILIPPINES
PHILIPPINES
Encouraging schooling and vocational training
Higher education support for disadvantaged young people
Enfants d’Asie meets the essential needs of over 12,000 children and provides access to schooling and vocational training, and on to work placements. In the Philippines, despite a high rate of economic growth (6.4% in 2016 according to the World Bank), over 26% of the population still live below the poverty line, mostly in rural areas, and children are the first victims of this. Since 2009, Enfants d’Asie has pursued a programme in the municipality of Alegria, a programme aimed at driving improvements in educational attainment levels and to drive back poverty by helping to pay for school fees. It is helping to boost young people’s skills in primordial areas to prepare them to join the labour market. English and Computer Skills are taught, and they also benefit from job guidance. This year, the Foundation is funding the cost of schooling for 40 disadvantaged girls.
The name of charity “Gawad Kalinga”, originating in the very heart of the poorest communities on the outskirts of Manila, literally means “Who cares for”. It is a charity that builds villages to re-house the very poorest families and also helps to set up autonomous social enterprises to develop sustainable business activity. In the Philippines, only 50% of high school students go on to university. New graduates have few resources and are not equipped. As a result, the most brilliant students leave the countryside to fi d jobs in the cities or abroad due to the lack of opportunity in rural areas. The programme proposed prepares people for careers in social work and seeks to improve access to university for young people from the country. It is a pilot project that will be replicated to provide a quality education for thousands of young people in rural communities across the Philippines.
Enfants d’Asie
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €14,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Gawad Kalinga
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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Asia
VIETNAM
VIETNAM
Support for 300 disadvantaged children
Improving educational provision at the Nha Trang SOS Children’s Village
Mai Nha Children Foundation
Creation of an orphanage
Distribution of school bursaries
Construction
of school infrastructure
Mai Nha Children Foundation was set up in 2007 to provide quality care for the orphans and deprived children of Thien Nghiep, a village in south-east Vietnam. An orphanage set up by the charity caters for a dozen orphans in several houses managed by a “Mai Nha mummy”. The children grow up in warm, secure surroundings. The present project is structured around three components. The first is an orphanage for 20 infants who will be raised in the orphanage until they become independent at around age 20. The second initiative involves the distribution of school bursaries to 100 deprived children in the village and support in matters of hygiene and healthcare. The third initiative involves the construction of school infrastructure to help the village children access education/training in good conditions.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
SOS Villages d’Enfants
For the past six decades, SOS Children’s Villages charities have raised children lacking parental support or who are at risk of losing it, in France and worldwide. Traditionally, the “extended” Vietnamese family will take in orphaned children. Unfortunately, however, solidarity suffers from the struggles of day-to-day life. In addition, school infrastructure is insufficient and classes are overcrowded. In 1999, to meet these increased demands, SOS Children’s Villages opened an SOS village in Nha Trang, on the east coast of the country. A school was built there, but the facilities are now dilapidated and unsuitable. A great deal of work was required both inside the school and outside. The children also need more training in hygiene. The Foundation financed the creation of toilets, the renovation of the kindergarten, the purchase of outside play equipment, and the renovation of the school kitchen.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
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Caribbean & Indian Ocean
Caribbean and Indian Ocean
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Projects supported in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean in 2017 Projects for vulnerable children
Caribbean & Indian Ocean
Haiti
Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs €20,000
Schooling support for 528 vulnerable schoolchildren
Terre des Hommes Suisse €30,000 Support for child servants
Madagascar Aïna, Enfance & Avenir €15,000 Solidarity crèches
AKAMASOA €50,000
Rehabilitating a sports ground as a closed gymnasium
Association Saint Vincent de Paul €8,000
Purchasing equipment for a carpentry workshop and support for schooling
Les Enfants de l’Ovale €5,700
Improving reception conditions at the day centre
Planète Cœur €8,500
Computer skills at Lycée Champagnat
Dominican Republic
Fundación Abriendo camino €25,000 “For a life without violence”
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Caribbean & Indian Ocean
HAITI
HAITI
Schooling support for 528 vulnerable school children
Support for child servants
Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs
Support
For child servants
Protecting
victims through education, psychology and affection
Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs provides a new start for orphans, abandoned children and those with disabilities, along with access to medical care for the poorest and oversight of their schooling. The charity mainly works in Haiti, but also in eight countries in Latin America. In Haiti, 60% of children do not attend school because extremely poor families cannot afford to pay school fees. The Sainte Hélène de Kenscoff school has an intake of 528 students. Their lunch is provided free of charge by the charity and school fees are three times cheaper than at other schools in Haiti. The Foundation was asked to fund the children’s schooling in the 2017-2018 academic year.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
Terre des Hommes Suisse Terre des Hommes Suisse operates on behalf of children and promotes development aid through some 50 programmes in nine countries in partnership with local charities. The scars of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010 are still very visible. The first victims are children, and especially those known as “Restavèk” (“stay with”), who work as child servants. Many families place their children with urban families, hoping to provide them with a more decent life, but they are often under-nourished, deprived of schooling, and sometimes used as slaves, pure and simple. They suffer violence and abuse and are completely cut off from their families due to distance. UNICEF has estimated that there are 300,000 Restavèk, 75% of whom are girls. Terre des Hommes Suisse supports the Maurice Sixto centres, which provide educational, psychological, and emotional support for these children, providing them with an opportunity to integrate mainstream society by overcoming the exclusion they suffer from.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €30,000 for this project
Caribbean & Indian Ocean
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Caribbean & Indian Ocean
MADAGASCAR
MADAGASCAR
Solidarity crèches
Rehabilitating a sports ground as a closed gymnasium
Aïna, Enfance & Avenir Aïna, Enfance & Avenir has worked in Madagascar since 2005 among the very poor: street children, orphans, at-risk children, and destitute teenage mothers. It seeks to reinvent the lives of these underprivileged children. To achieve that, the charity creates structures tailored to the needs of the child, improves their daily lives, and helps them into schooling. In Madagascar, there is no requirement to send children to a crèche and there are no state-run crèches. In 2015, Aïna set up two solidarity crèches in very poor neighbourhoods. They have two aims: to get infants used to schooling and to raise parents’ awareness of the need to support and encourage their children. Mobilizing the parents is mainly achieved through mother-child workshops on health and hygiene, child development, education, and the importance of schooling.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
AKAMASOA
AKAMASOA, which means “Good Friends”, is a Madagascan humanitarian charity founded by Fr Pedro Opeka in 1989 to ensure the economic and social integration of the poorest of the poor and restore their dignity. AKAMASOA has set up five centres around the capital Antananarivo comprising 17 villages housing 2,926 families. The families undertake to work, to send their children to school, and to obey the fundamental rules of social living. In exchange, they have jobs in handicrafts and agriculture, social housing, four schools, a high school, five crèches and six dispensaries. In addition, the charity helps to repatriate families wanting to return to their home regions. This year, the Air France Foundation is part-funding the rehabilitation of AKAMASOA’s principal sports ground, which had become unusable. The new gymnasium can also be used to take in families affected by natural disasters, which are increasingly numerous in Madagascar.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €50,000 for this project
Rehabilitating a sports ground as a closed gymnasium
Caring for victims of natural disasters
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Caribbean & Indian Ocean
MADAGASCAR
Association Saint Vincent de Paul Purchasing equipment for a carpentry workshop and support for schooling The Saint Vincent de Paul Social Centre groups a range of services focused on nutritional support, schooling, vocational training, emergency accommodation, and healthcare. In one neighbourhood in Antananarivo, it looks after over 600 deprived children and provides schooling for them. They receive a daily meal and take part in pre-school activities or vocational training. The centre finances microcredits, school fees, and water supplies. Madagascar suffers from severe social problems due to high rates of poverty and population density, which create powerful social pressures. This is why the Saint Vincent de Paul Social Centre prioritizes vocational training for young people. The Foundation was asked to fund the purchase of equipment for a carpentry workshop. It has also helped many children by paying for their schooling.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €8,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
MADAGASCAR
Les Enfants de l’Ovale Improving reception conditions at the day centre The charity focuses on education for underprivileged children by teaching them rugby and its values: respect, commitment, solidarity and surpassing oneself. Les Enfants de l’Ovale also teaches French language, computer and sewing skills. The children play rugby at the centre, are given refreshments and have two medicals a year. In Madagascar, the centre is located 15km from the capital Antananarivo. The children who frequent it are often left to their own devices. The attraction of playing rugby at the centre diverts them from drug- and alcohol-related problems. The Air France Foundation was asked to rehabilitate the structure damaged in Tropical Cyclone Enawo in March 2017. The buildings have been renovated, and their furniture replaced, as has the bus donated by the Air France Foundation five years ago
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €5,700 for this project
Caribbean & Indian Ocean
MADAGASCAR
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Computer Skills at Lycée Champagnat
“For a life without violence”
Planète Cœur
Charity Planète Coeur provides access to schooling for street children in India, Thailand, Madagascar and Angola. It has several other activities, such as connecting villages in Cameroon to mains water, creating a dispensary in India, building an eco-tourism village in Ecuador, and emergency operations in France, Haiti, and the Philippines. Planète Coeur is convinced that access to the new technologies will encourage learning and understanding and would give students a better chance of passing their final exams. The Air France Foundation was asked to fund the purchase of 20 desktop computers, install the equipment to connect to the internet, and supply a video-projector for teaching groups. The equipment will be used to teach computer skills to the 1,200 students attending Lycée Champagnat in Antananarivo, from Year 7 to Year 13. The computers have been installed in one of the classrooms renovated in 2015, which is lockable and has been equipped with suitable furniture.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €8,500 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Fondation Abriendo Camino Fundación Abriendo Camino considers that education is an essential instrument for combating poverty and driving development. It has set up a centre where children and teenagers can develop their skills through educational and recreational activities. It provides them with a meeting space that contributes to preventing delinquency. It also offers technical and vocational training workshops for teenagers to improve their employability. In Villas Agricolas, a marginal neighbourhood in Santo Domingo, access to education is limited and a mass of problems in connection with violence, gangs, substance and alcohol abuse, prostitution and child labour have repercussions on young people. The present prevention project involves running an awareness-raising programme in the neighbourhood, offering workshops, and training personnel able to provide educational solutions and identify signs of ill-treatment.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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Europe
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Projects supported in Europe in 2017 Projects for vulnerable children
Europe
ROMANIA
ROMANIA
Sowing the seeds of reading in French in Romania
Creating and outfitting a play area
ADIFLOR
ADIFLOR, a charity for the international diffusion of French language books and journals, was set up to promote the French language though books. Since it was founded in 1985, it has supported over 1,550 projects to enrich public libraries, media centres and schools and universities in French-speaking or Francophile counties. It organizes activities for young people to raise their awareness of reading. In Romania, where a great many students learn French, it is an asset for their future career, but access to French-language books is difficult and expensive. ADIFLOR donates books to institutions so that their students can consolidate their language skills. This new project will help supply schools that had not received books in previous years, and renew school collections. It will also help to trial the use of e-books in a pilot class, and plans to donate prizes for French speaking competitions and develop French language teaching for small children.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project
ISEA
ISEA (Support and Education Work though Aid) provides daytime social and educational activities by teachers, youth workers and volunteers. It caters daily to children and young people whose personal and family history is often distressing and problematic. At the Maria Ward social centre, the children can find genuine reassurance and above all can count on extra-curricular educational support (help with homework and tutoring). They are also given a hot meal, health and hygiene checks, and material assistance – financial for some families – and the help of social workers. The project received funds to equip a play area at the social centre with a safety surface, slides, swings and mini-goal posts, along with selective sorting recycling bins.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €12,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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Projects supported in France in 2017 Projects for vulnerable children Projects for children with disabilities Projects for sick children
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France
Chamonix
À chacun son Everest ! €20,000
Therapeutic holidays for sick children
Greater Paris
Musée Nationnal d’Histoire Naturelle €10,000
Awareness training for young people to combat racism
One, two, three…RAP! €8,000
English learning workshops through urban culture
Les PEP 973 €10,000
Assistance for pregnant teenagers at school (SAMES)
La Réunion Case Marmaillons €10,000
Art dans la cité €10,000
Passeurs d’Arts €15,000
ASMF Association handisport de Paris €5,000
Sport dans la Ville €30,000
Launch of a “But en Or” centre in Gonesse
Martinique
Asperger Amitiés €7,000
Théodora €12,000
Fostering entrepreneurial spirit among Martinique youth
Association de Neurophysiologie du Kremlin Bicêtre €25,000
Tout le monde contre le cancer €30,000
Improving hospitalization conditions for sick children
Access to swimming for children with disabilities
Workshops for children with Asperger’s
Humanizing and improving the Bicêtre paediatrics laboratory
Association Eurêka ! €10,000
Academic help and support for vulnerable children
Le Musée en Herbe €12,000
Art workshops in residential schools for special needs children
Le Rire Médecin €15,000
“Mater-nez” programme
Make-A-Wish France €10,000
Making sick children’s dreams come true
Creating an orchestra in Garges-les-Gonesse
The Rêves en Visite doctors at the Robert-Debré hospital
“Toques en truck”
Guadeloupe
Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris €25,000 Creating a Démos orchestra in Pointe-à-Pitre
French Guiana
Daycare centre for children and very young vulnerable parents
Entreprendre pour Apprendre €15,000
Montpellier Cap’A Cité €15,000
Setting up a specialized class
Halte pouce €20,000
Assistance for young people with disabilities
M(art)mot €20,000
“Raconte moi une oeuvre”
A.M.A.P.O €4,500
Pic et Colegram €3,200
Baby Wall €1,500
RIRE-Clowns pour enfants hospitalisés €15,000
“Happy Days” for underprivileged children
Creating frescoes in hospitals
IMagissime €14,400
Making short “ELLES ont toutes une histoire” films
Musical entertainment in hospitals
Professional clown appearances for children with cancer
XXtrem Line Concept €15,000 Solidarity Triathlon
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France
FRANCE–CHAMONIX
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
Therapeutic holidays for sick children
Improving Hospitalization conditions for sick children
Access to swimming for children with disabilities
À Chacun son Everest ! Charity A Chacun son Everest! was set up in 1994 by Doctor Christine Janin, the first French woman to climb Mount Everest, and Professor André Baruchel, Head of the Paediatric Haematology Department at the Robert Debré hospital in Paris. It helps children with cancer or leukaemia to “get better better” by climbing their own personal “Everest”. It operates on the symbolic parallel between the difficulty of climbing a high mountain and the journey to wellness. It organizes short breaks in the mountains for these children where they can go snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, dog sledding and rock climbing, or frolic in the adventure playground. The aim of the 2017 project is once again to help children from the Greater Paris area to see a piece of the action. The therapeutic holidays are fully funded by the charity, with 24-hour psychological and physical support, to give them a new taste for life.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
Art dans la Cité
Art dans la Cité was set up to introduce children to the contemporary visual arts in hospitals with help from artists. The charity contributes to patient wellbeing and support and improves their care and time in hospital through the collective creation of works that are then installed permanently in hospital areas to give them a more human face. In 2015, Art dans la Cité developed and improved the “Illuminart” system, which is today fully operational. With its mobile equipment, Illuminart provides a unique multi-sensorial experience for young inpatients. Projecting works of art and other digital content, and interacting with them in an immersive atmosphere, has a significant positive impact on wellbeing. This year, the charity is proposing a virtual aquarium and aims to install five Illuminart systems in areas of participating hospitals. In parallel, it will carry out research to demonstrate the importance of Illuminart’s impact on the overall wellbeing of young patients.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project
ASMF Association Handisport de Paris
ASMF (the Paris Handisport Association) was founded in 1954 and specializes in the practice of sport and open-air activities to encourage the integration of people living with disability. Three new disciplines were introduced in September 2017, namely para karate, swimming lessons for children with motor and sensory disabilities, and para swimming in a second swimming pool. The “Autonomous in the Water, even Disabled” initiative is aimed at young people enrolled in special ULIS classes at mainstream schools, using methods approved by swimming instructors. The children are collected from their primary or middle school by a specially adapted minibus. The club has a time slot on Monday afternoons at the Bertrand Dauvin pool in Paris. The project supported is designed to minimize obstacles to practising sport for children with disabilities.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €5,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
France
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
Asperger Amitiés
Workshops for children with Asperger’s Asperger Amitiés supports people with Asperger Syndrome to help them combat their disability and avoid isolation, and to improve their social and professional integration. It raises awareness of the condition among the general public through awareness and learning workshops and practical social skills courses. Asperger Amitiés organizes “meet-up cafés” to encourage contacts between people with Asperger’s, parents, psychotherapists, and youth workers. At least 30,000 children are estimated to present symptoms of Asperger’s in France. The present project aims to enable Asperger children to improve their behavioural skills and enjoy a full life in society through assistance programmes. Workshops are run by specialist psychologists. The project consists in developing and supporting these workshops over time to satisfy the many demands on the charity.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €7,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
Association de Neurophysiologie du Kremlin Bicêtre (ANKB) Humanizing and improving the Bicêtre paediatrics laboratory The neurophysiology association of the Kremlin Bicêtre hospital near Paris helps develop neurophysiological recording techniques for nervous conditions. Electroencephalogram (EEG) tests highlight characteristic anomalies. The quality of EEG recordings among sleeping children depends on environmental factors that allow children to fall asleep and create minimum stress for them and their parents. The existing laboratory is located in an outdated building where test conditions are sub-optimal due to a lack of acoustic or heat insulation. The project therefore aims to improve reception conditions and give the premises a more human face by carrying out acoustic and thermal insulation work and decorating the premises in a child-friendly manner to ensure good testing conditions.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
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FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
Academic help and support for vulnerable children
Art workshops in residential schools for special needs children
Eurêka! seeks to ensure academic and professional success for teenage students in the area around Roissy airport north of Paris. Tutoring, cultural education, and vocational guidance are its three main areas of intervention. The charity organizes regular support for young people, cultural outings, and meetings with professionals from different sectors. The Goussainville municipality is experiencing rapid economic growth largely thanks to inward investment from China. Unfortunately, young people are excluded from this due to the high unemployment rate and large numbers of school dropouts. The “Tutoring for Success” programme is designed to underpin academic and vocational success. It has four components: tutoring in mathematics and French, tutoring for examination success, a “Parents Have their Say” workshop to involve parents in their children’s exam success, and Chinese language courses.
Le Musée en Herbe works with children from the age of three. Each year, it stages new art exhibitions of original artworks by well-known artists showing loans from museums in France and elsewhere, art galleries and private collectors. Following several one-off exhibitions in residential nursing homes or day clinics, the Musée en Herbe is seeking to extend these experiments by organizing a long-term programme at the Saint-Cloud IME nursing home. The unit caters to children and young people aged 8-20 with moderate, profound or severe intellectual disability. The programme is aimed at about 15 teenagers aged 14-17 who will have access to art and culture via practical art workshops. The aim is to help them explore the “street art” movement through the work of urban artist Invader.
Association Eurêka !
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Le Musée en Herbe
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €12,000 for this project
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France
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
“Mater-Nez” programme
Making sick children’s dreams come true
Le Rire Médecin
In France, half of all children undergo hospitalization before they are 15. For such children and their parents, a hospital stay, or even a few hours in A&E, often entail considerable anxiety, loneliness, and distress. Whether it’s just a scratch or a severe pathology, Le Rire Médecin caters to all children in hospital. The charity’s clowns entertain them and help to restore harmony. The maternity unit at Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital just outside Paris is a Level III antenatal centre. It monitors the pregnancies (high-risk pregnancy) of vulnerable young mothers and helps with birthing. A duo of eccentric, burlesque actors visits the new-borns and their mothers. Their performances stimulate and calm the families and also testify to the extraordinary skills of babies in the hours after birth and their curiosity for everything around them.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project
MAKE-A-WISH France
For over a decade, Make-A-Wish France has helped make the dreams of children aged 3-17 with serious illnesses come true. Organized with their families, the realized wish brings hope, courage and joy in difficul times. The children are accompanied by volunteers trained in the values of Make-A-Wish focusing on attentiveness, and respect for family privacy. A 2015 study showed that sick children whose dreams were realized had greater psychological resilience and increased positivity when told of a pending treatment or operation. This year, the Foundation was asked to fund the wishes of four sick children accompanied by their families: Lena wanted to hear and experience the emotions of an actress, Sofiane wanted an electric scooter, Ilyès wanted a holiday in the mountains with his family, and Louis wanted to meet Cinderella.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
France
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FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
Awareness training for young people to combat racism
English learning workshops through urban culture
Creating an orchestra in Garges-lès-Gonesse
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
At the intersection of the Earth, Life, and Human Sciences, the Paris Natural History Museum has devoted itself to the natural world for the past 400 years. As the repository of a unique memory of the Earth and guardian of a strong scientific heritage, it represents an incomparable body of knowledge and know-how. The Museum’s work is concentrated on secondary schools in priority education areas in the Paris and Créteil education authorities. It works with charity Ethno’art to raise awareness among young people there about racism and to combat it. The project funded was a temporary exhibition “Us and the Others: From Prejudice to Racism”. Each class benefitted from five session Sessions 1 and 2: Visit the exhibition and think about the mechanisms that lead to the elaboration of stereotypes and racism; Session 3: Question our relationship to otherness; Session 4: Meet/exchange; Session 5: General feedback.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project
One, Two, Three…RAP !
One, Two, Three...RAP! is an educational charity which, via urban culture and American Hip Hop music seeks to promote the teaching and learning of English from an innovative angle. The charity works with vulnerable kids to develop their creativity while trying to stop them dropping out of school. In January 2016, it published a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) with input from well-known French rap artists. The ability to speak English has become an essential asset in the world of work. Unfortunately, French youth seem to have large gaps in their knowledge despite studying it at school. For this reason, the charity organizes free support workshops for those who are not fortunate enough to have access to private lessons or exchange programmes. The workshops also contribute to cultural open-mindedness and help to motivate young people through exhibitions, film screenings, concerts and introductory courses.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €8,000 for this project
Passeurs d’Art
Passeurs d’Arts is a charity that organizes free artistic provision for children and their families. It defends access to artistic and cultural education for all children. Its mainstay is an orchestra that is a social tool for education and integration and which develops diligence, mutual assistance, consideration and citizenship. The children in the Paris suburb of Garges-lès-Gonesse can take part free of charge. The initiative is taking place in the Dame-Blanche neighbourhood, identified as a priority zone by the government, where the children at the Langevin primary school, the Matisse middle school, and the IME nursing care home for children have no music provision. This growing orchestra is supported by the local Préfecture, the town council, and the Ministry of Education. Each child is given an instrument (string, woodwind, brass) and also studies percussion. Since the start of the 2016 academic year, the older musicians have sponsored children with special needs as part of a citizenship course so that they can join the orchestra and perform together.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project. Project sponsored by an Air France agent
France
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FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
FRANCE-GREATER PARIS
FRANCE
Launch of a “But en Or” centre in Gonesse
The Rêves en Visite doctors at Robert Debré hospital
“Toques en truck”
Sport dans la Ville
Charity Sport dans la Ville contributes to the social and professional integration of some 4,500 young people from difficult neighbourhoods via an array of programmes: “Sport et Découverte” (free sports activities), “L’Apprenti’Bus” (reading, writing, and communication workshops), “L dans la Ville” (emancipation and professional integration for girls), “Job dans la Ville” (work guidance and integration for youth) and “Entrepreneurs dans la Ville” (business start-up assistance). In September 2012, Sport dans la Ville inaugurated its first “But en Or” (golden goal) sports centre in Greater Paris in the northern suburb of Sarcelles. Since then, the 19th arrondissement of Paris and the suburbs of Drancy, Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen, and more recently Bondy have welcomed the launch of Sport dans la Ville initiatives in their priority neighbourhoods. Bolstered by this success, the charity has renewed the initiative in the La Fauconnière priority neighbourhood in Gonesse, a suburb southwest of Charles de Gaulle Airport. The sports centre covers 2,000sq.m and has an artificia turf football pitch and a fitness area
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €30,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Théodora
Since its inception in October 2000, charity Théodora has organized visits by clowns to children in hospital. The rigorously selected artists are specially trained to work in hospital environments. They are known as “Doctor Dreams” Théodora has operated at the Robert-Debré hospital in Paris since 2001 and over the years has developed its unique, acknowledged know-how. The presence of the clown is very important for children in hospitals, intensive care or under continual surveillance because it brings a modicum of tenderness to children and their families faced with a difficult and delicate situation. The clowns improvise and adapt to each child, transporting them far away from the world of sickness. The project involves funding visits from two Doctor Dreams each week to children in the intensive and continuing care units.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €12,000 for this project
Tout le monde contre le cancer This charity seeks to improve living conditions for sick children and their families, especially youngsters with cancer. It donates equipment to hospitals and organizes events for sick children and their families such as in-hospital events, tickets for concerts and shows, making dreams come true, holidays, etc. In all, it organizes 1,000 initiatives each year to bring a little tenderness and magic for sick children and their families. Every day throughout the summer, the first food truck for hospitals stops at around twenty hospitals all over France so that sick children, their families and nursing staff can escape from their rooms and experience culinary events in the company of leading chefs (the “toques” of the charity’s name) and foodies! The food truck offers families several highlights throughout the day so that everyone can benefit from the event. A coffee machine is donated to the hospital’s family room at each visit so that families can enjoy a coffee all year round.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €30,000 for this project
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FRANCE–GUADELOUPE
Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris
Creating a Démos orchestra in Pointe-àPitre Démos is a cultural democratization project focused on the practice of orchestral music. It trains children aged 7-14 from neighbourhoods covered by urban policies, or from rural areas separated from musical practice by distance, using a coherent, holistic, artistic method. Démos is based on the intensive, supervised teaching of music through collective teaching methods. Every child is provided with a musical instrument and has four hours of lessons each week outside school time, in the social structures they habitually frequent. The music workshops cater to groups of fifteen children run by a musician and a social worker. Once a month, the children rehearse as a full orchestra and every year they perform in at least one concert for their friends and families. This year, the Foundation was asked to fund the creation of an orchestra in Pointe-à-Pitre.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €25,000 for this project
FRANCE-FRENCH GUIANA
FRANCE-FRENCH GUIANA
“Happy Days” for underprivileged children
Creating frescoes in hospitals
A.M.A.P.O
Charity A.M.A.P.O (Saint-Martin de Porres) was founded in the early 1980s to help the poorest of the poor in the South West neighbourhood of Cayenne. It provides opportunities for the children to take part in creative activities, practice sports, and get help with their homework, with free snacks. There is also a large reading area, film screenings, clean clothes, and a sympathetic ear. During the festive season A.M.A.P.O organizes a “Happy Day”’ giving the children the opportunity to escape for a day by going to the cinema, the swimming pool and a restaurant, with presents during the meal. The children eagerly look forward to this annual day out.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €4,500 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Baby Wall
Baby Wall is a charity dedicated to brightening up paediatric units around the world to foster wellbeing among their young patients. On the walls of the Andrée Rosemon hospital in Cayenne, the charity is trying to create a place conducive to dreams and escapism through the discovery of local wildlife. Designed for the children and the staff, the initiative also aims to contribute fun support and assistance. The objective is to decorate paediatric units with frescoes. The works unfold along the corridors either in single pieces or grouped together in large composite compositions. They use acrylic paints and depict largescale, colourful geometric patterns. All are original artworks. The Foundation was asked to fund a fresco for the Cayenne hospital.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €1,500 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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FRANCE-FRENCH GUIANA
FRANCE-FRENCH GUIANA
FRANCE-LA REUNION
Making short “ELLES ont toutes une histoire” fims
Assitance for pregnant teenagers at school (SAMES)
For the second time, the Air France Foundation is taking part in the “ELLES ont toutes une histoire” project. The film shorts were made by the IMagissime company. IMagissime produces documentary content rooted in reality and in our times in fields as varied as history, science, culture, society and discovery. For 2018 International Women’s Day on 8 March 2018, IMagissime produced 11 shorts featuring profiles of girls lasting 90 seconds each, directed by Samuel Le Bihan, and entitled “ELLES ont toutes une histoire, saison 3” (Girls all have a story, season 3). The programme was screened on all France Télévision Group channels. The chief aim of the programme was to give girls aged 12-16 a say and capture their testimony and their stories. Often abused, they all share a similar commitment in France and France’s overseas dependencies.
The charity supports and complements the work of state education and contributes to the schooling and training of children by providing material and moral support. It creates and operates medico-social centres that meet child protection needs. PEP 973 looks after children who are sick or have had accidents and pregnant teenagers in school, through a home-based educational support scheme. Every year, large numbers of teenage girls are excluded from the school system after giving birth. The PEP 973 system helps them to continue their schooling before and after giving birth by providing home lessons and so making it easier for the girls to return to school. The project funded by the Foundation aims to facilitate continued schooling and to avert the risk of the girls’ dropping out and being isolated. Individual support from a team of teachers working closely with local partners such as the education authority, social services, and guidance and integration services, are planned.
Daycare centre for children and very young vulnerable parents
IMagissime
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €14,000 for this project
Les PEP 973
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
Case Marmaillons
Case Marmaillons is a charity that provides a welcoming, caring meeting space open to children aged up to six years and their parents. The charity is located in Saint-Pierre on La Reunion. A psychoanalysis-oriented team that is part of the social network provides parents and future parents with a place where they can share. The team also supports highly vulnerable children through personalised care, cultural workshops, and a discussion group There are ten times more teenage pregnancies in La Réunion than in continental France. Case Marmaillons opened in the deprived Ravine Blanche neighbourhood, which also forms part of a special Urban Social Cohesion Contract (CUCS). The charity’s neighbourhood facility is aimed more particularly at families presenting extreme psychological and social vulnerability referred by the charity’s medical and social work partners, among others. It works towards strengthening their social integration through a mix of workshops.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €10,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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FRANCE–MARTINIQUE
Entreprendre Pour Apprendre (EPA) Fostering entrepreneurial spirit among Martinique yout Charity Entreprendre Pour Apprendre (EPA – Entrepreneurship for Learning) helps to develop the entrepreneurial skills of perseverance, creativity, a sense of responsibility, risk taking, self-confidence, and team spirit. It also provides career guidance for young people. Its “Mini Entreprise-EPA” programme is an opportunity for a team of young people accompanied by a teacher and an entrepreneur mentor to mobilize for a year or a semester (with a 30-hour minimum) to create their own “real-life” company. Youth unemployment in Martinique averages 22.8%. This is due to the island’s economic situation, its isolation, and its large population of unskilled youth who cannot find jobs. Given this, it seems essential to develop the entrepreneurial spirit among these young people and, from a very early age, build skills to improve their employability. The Air France Foundation was asked to help fund a strengthening of the EPA Martinique programme.
LThe Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
FRANCE–MONTPELLIER
FRANCE–MONTPELLIER
Setting up a specialized class
Assistance for young people with disabilitiesp
Cap’ A Cité
Cap’ A Cité’s aim is to satisfy the principle of equal opportunity by ensuring a place in our society for every citizen. The charity is simultaneously a centre for prevocational training for young people with disabilities and a link service between the various institutions, healthcare networks, charities, and families. Cap’ A Cité seeks mainly to motivate young people through a social dynamic by means of training, work, or collective citizen initiatives. DIRECCTE Occitanie (the Regional Department for Business, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Work and Employment) has commissioned Cap’ A Cité to trial an initiative to direct young people with disabilities towards jobs and socio-professional support and training bodies. Cap’ A Cité was looking for new premises to satisfy the growing need for support services and cater to a larger number of young people. Thanks to the support of the Air France Foundation, the structure is planning to open a new class.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project
Halte Pouce
Halte Pouce was set up to find respite solutions for families living with a disabled person. The charity helps coordinate and create networks among the social services, medical social workers, schools, healthcare, and families. Halte Pouce assesses, supports and coordinates care for the children, the families, and the professionals in their leisure time. It organizes outings for young people with disabilities and trains professionals working in leisure, residential, and crèche structures to care for children with disabilities. The Hérault departement is seeing growing demand from families concerned with their child’s disability. The medical and social services, whose waiting lists are getting longer, can only offer partial support, and integration in schools, crèches and leisure centres is very difficult. The project funded seeks to assist and provide schooling support for children lacking SESSAD home care, via meetings with teachers and other programmes.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
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“Raconte-moi une oeuvre”
Musical entertainment in hospitals
M(art)mot
The charity, whose name means “Tell me a picture story”, was set up to raise awareness among children and adults of art history and the French and international heritage through talks centred on art works, guided visits to museums and art creation studios. It also organizes sessions on the “history of art and creation” and workshops on local art heritage in primary schools. M(art)mot works in leisure centres and also in the medical oncology department at the Tenon hospital in Paris. M(art)mot has operated in Montpellier since 2014 with children aged 6-11 as part of reforms to the school system. While most sick children receive schooling, not all of them are fortunate enough to take part in the sessions organized by the municipality. With this project, M(art)mot is seeking to strengthen social ties and to ensure that no child is left out. Waiting times for an oncology appointment average an hour, and so, for one half-day a week, the charity gives fun presentations of art works to the children who are waiting for their appointment with the doctor.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €20,000 for this project
Pic et Colegram
Pic et Colegram (the name of a children’s counting game) is a charity set up to promote musical culture and practice through initiatives among the general public. It also organizes introductory musical workshops, talks and performances. Infants and toddlers who are hospitalized for long periods need constant, attentive, gentle medical care. This creates a sort of social isolation where invitations to play may be lacking. Through its project to work with children in their hospital rooms Pic et Colegram seeks to support nursing teams, educational teams, and families by organizing sensitive supplemental cultural education. Dedicated to early artistic and cultural learning in multiple forms, charity volunteers work with children in the surgery department of the Arnaud de Villeneuve hospital in Montpellier, organizing musical encounters in one or two-child rooms two afternoons a month.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €3,200 for this project
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RIRE – Clowns pour enfants hospitalisés Professional clown appearances for children with cancer RIRE is a charity staffed by 40 volunteer clowns who perform six days a week in 22 paediatric departments at the Montpellier University Hospital. They are trained and supported by the charity’s professional clowns and external instructors. RIRE was asked by the care team in the paediatric haematology/oncology department at the Arnaud de Villeneuve hospital in Montpellier to deploy a professional project involving the presence of clowns in the children’s rooms, and especially during difficult treatments. Since 2016, at the hospital’s request, they have also worked in the paediatric intensive care unit. They analyse their practice under the supervision of a private psychologist-psychoanalyst twice a month. They are called clown healthcare assistants as they are permitted to be present during difficult treatments.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project
FRANCE–MONTPELLIER
XXtrem Line Concept
Solidarity Triathlon Charity XXtrem Line Concept organizes and takes part in extreme race events with children or adults who are sick and/or who present multiple disabilities. It was set up to promote, organize, and carry out all types of initiatives aimed at developing triathlons, aquathlons, Bike & Run events and other continuous disciplines “for all” in a solidarity triathlon. This initiative is unique in France. The project aims to allow children and adults with disabilities to take part in a range of solidarity activities to achieve integration through adapted sports activities. This helps develop a degree of autonomy and to sustain social ties. The Air France Foundation was asked to fund the purchase of adapted equipment that will be used in the many events organized throughout the year.
The Air France Foundation is providing funding of €15,000 for this project Project sponsored by an Air France agent
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Annexes
List of charities À Chacun son Everest ! AAVO-Kirubalaya ADESAF Association pour le Développement Économique et Social en Afrique ADIFLOR (Association pour la Diffusion Internationale Francophone de Livres, Ouvrages et Revues) AD’RFaso Association pour le Développement Rural au Burkina Faso AGIRabcd Délégation Basse-Normandie Aide et Action Aïna, Enfance & Avenir AKAMASOA A.M.A.P.O Apprentis d’Auteuil Art dans la Cité ASMF Association Handisport de Paris Asperger Amitié Association de Neurophysiologie du Kremlin-Bicêtre Association Eurêka ! Association Mulemba Association Poitiers Moundou Association Saint Vincent de Paul AuditionSolidarité Baby Wall Biblionef CAMELEON Cap’A Cité Case Marmaillons Centre des Jeunes Aveugles Accueil Notre Dame de la Paix Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris Clowns Sans Frontières Conseil National des associations de Jeunes Guinéens de France
Coup de Pousse Dynamo International Échanges Birmanie Enfance 232 Enfants d’Asie Enfants du Mékong Entreprendre Pour Apprendre FACE for Children in Need Femmes solidaires Fondation Abriendo Camino Fondation Leer France Développement Togo/Bénin Froggies Family Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation Graines de joie Grandir Dignement Halte pouce I.S.E.A (Intervention de Soutien et d’Education par l’Aide humanitaire) IMagissime Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement (IECD) Krousar Thmey La Banda de Música Le Musée en Herbe Le Partenariat Le Rire Médecin Les Enfants de l’Ovale Les enfants de Madaifu - Association Marcel Roux en Chine Les PEP 973 Letili Actions France Make-A-Wish® France M(art)mot
Ma Belle École Mai Nha Children Foundation Mission Enfance Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs OAfrica One, Two, Three…RAP! ONYVA Paris-Tegu Passeurs d’Arts Peuples d’Himalaya Pic et Colegram Pixo Planète Cœur Projeto Uerê RIRE-Clowns pour enfants hospitalisés SamusocialInternational Savoir Ivoire Sencirk Sipar Solidarité Sida SOS Villages d’Enfants Sport dans la Ville Terra dos Homens Terre des hommes Suisse Terres Rouges The Little People Project Théodora Tout le monde contre le cancer Triangle Génération Humanitaire UN NOM UN TOIT UNE VIE XXtrem Line Concept Yara Les Nouveaux Constructeurs
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Photo credits ADESAF ADIFLOR AD’Rfaso Aide et Action Aïna, Enfance & Avenir Arquivo Uerê Association Mulemba AUDITIONSOLIDARITE Aviation Sans Frontières Biblionef Cécile Vic CH LARTIGE CL2P Class Voici Clowns Sans Frontières COMMUNICATION PILOTES Droits réservés p 20 Droits réservés p 23 DX.CI/Service audiovisuel Air France Échanges Birmanie Enfance 232 Enfants d’Asie FACE for Children in Need Femmes solidaires FLY n’KISS Fondation Abriendo Camino François Darmigny Gawad Kalinga Geneviève Charlier Graines de Joie Guillaume Grandin I.S.E.A Ils sont demain Jean-Marie Melon
Jérôme GORIN - À Chacun son Everest ! John Kafé Katja Snozzi Krousar Thmey La Banda de Música La Liane Laurent Attias Le Centre des Jeunes Aveugles au Cameroun L’ENVOL pour les enfants européens Les Enfants de l’Ovale Mai Nha Children Maria Perez Michel Bouchareine N’Deye Traore Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs OAfrica ONYVA Peuple d’Himalaya Pixo Projeto Uerê Savoir Ivoire Sencirk Sipar SOS Villages d’Enfant-Bjorn Owe Holmberg Terre des hommes Suisse The Little People Project Virginie Valdois Yara les Nouveaux Constructeurs
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