Enfants et Développement (Association, Burkina Faso)

The aim of the “access to primary education” project in Burkina Faso is to increase the capacities of the six schools located in the Barsalogho zone, and, above all, to introduce extracurricular activities that make for favourable educational environments for children, thereby facilitating the acquisition of knowledge in a manner that is compatible with their basic rights and needs (as regards education, health, play, leisure, etc.).

The grant requested from the Foundation is allocated to extracurricular activities (health education, kitchen garden, libraries, sporting activities, etc.) and for refurbishment of facilities.

ASI - Actions de Solidarité Internationale (Association, Congo - Brazzaville)

The aim of the Brazzaville project, which is receiving support from the Foundation, is to set up a programme to provide assistance to girls in difficulty. The first component will enable the girls to develop a social rehabilitation process based on schooling and vocational training. Those who so wish may ask a family-mediation team to attempt to locate family members with a view to reuniting their families. The second component will focus on prevention, and will be managed by a team of specialist youth workers including former prostitutes and people with special training in the area of AIDS.

Egypt´s Daughter Association (Association, Egypt)

Egypt´s Daughter aim is to develop and improve quality of life for orphans by providing them with social and legal protection.

The association – which has 400 sq. metres of unused space available at one of its orphanages, in the Cairo suburb of Nasr City – wishes to set up an education centre for 80 orphans aged 6 to 12.
The grant requested from the Foundation will be used for building the centre and equipping it with computers.

Aide et Action (Association, Guinea)

Aide et Action contributes to the provision of basic education in Guinea, and assists the State in the definition and implementation of its education policy. In rural areas where schooling needs are not met by the State, local people have worked together to set up so-called “community schools”.

In order to optimise the impact of such initiatives and to ensure continuity, a number of partners have been associated with the project – including, notably, the national primary-teacher training schools or ENIs (Ecoles nationales d´instituteurs) and the regional school-inspection authority or IRE (Inspection régionale de l´éducation).  

The project presented to the Air France Foundation concerns initial and continuing training for 50 community teachers.

Samu Social Mali (Association, Mali)

A “Samu Social” (Service d´aide mobile d´urgence sociale – emergency mobile social assistance service) is a local-action tool used to combat the social exclusion of the most vulnerable people in society – i.e. those who live in the streets. In Bamako, social exclusion particularly affects street children. The project, which is intended to improve the care provided to Bamako´s street children, therefore contributes to the fight against social exclusion in urban Mali. In order to extend its action, Samu Social Mali notably requires a utility vehicle for night rounds, four scooters used by its youth workers for daytime monitoring purposes, and computer equipment.

The Air France Foundation is participating in this programme by financing the purchase of these vehicles and equipment.

Bayti (Association, Morocco)

Bayti, which was created in 1995 and has been state-approved since 1999, is the oldest and largest association caring for Morocco´s street children. Its aim is to reduce the number of children living in the streets and in vulnerable situations, and to fight against the social exclusion of girl and boy children through preventive and protective measures, rehabilitation and reintegration in family, educational and socio-professional terms.

Since 1997, Bayti has been implementing a special programme for “girls aged 5 to 20 in difficulty”.Work with the girls is initiated in the street, through street workshops.
The second stage is that of the “halfway house”, i.e. a transition between the street and reception centres, on the way to lasting social rehabilitation.
The third stage is accommodation in temporary apartments, which enables the beneficiaries to make plans for the future (customised pedagogical workshops, informal education, literacy classes, vocational training and management of micro-projects).

The Air France Foundation is participating in this rehabilitation programme.

Relais Parents Enfants (Association, Central African Republic)

The project is intended to create more favourable conditions for orphans, and notably for AIDS orphans.
A reception centre is to be built to enable such children to receive a high-quality education.
This centre is to comprise six class modules, three dormitories, a canteen, showers & toilets, a playroom, an infirmary and teacher accommodation.
The grant requested from the Foundation is allocated to the construction of two classrooms.

Sports Sans Frontières (Association, Senegal)

Sports sans Frontières is an international solidarity organisation which sets up development programmes aimed at people in difficulty – notably children and young people – in countries where such action appears useful. The programmes use sport as the key tool for education and socialisation.

While sport plays a central role culturally in Senegal, facilities are few and far between.Varied, mixed sports workshops are organised, taking children´s desires and needs into account.
The grant requested from the Foundation will be used to provide sports and educational equipment, purchase computer equipment, train youth workers, organise civic tournaments and monitor the project.

Care France (Association, Togo)

Despite the ratification by Togo of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in August 1990, the problem of child labour is actually growing.

Musique Espérance (Association, Argentina)

Since 1986, Musique Espérance has been implementing a comprehensive programme in Vinará, Argentina, focused on health and education, as well as on economic-development projects. The association also organises musical and artistic activities for underprivileged youth, the aim being to force young people in a marginalised rural area to communicate and share new experiences, reminding them of the rules of group life and of the importance of mutual respect.

Musique Espérance is keen to continue its Vinarà programme in optimal fashion, and has approached the Foundation to cover the management of certain workshops and to provide support for vocational training (enabling trainees to obtain employment as electricians, mechanics, construction workers and assistant pharmacists), for distance-learning Internet facilities aimed at the young association members and for equipment to make cheeses and desserts. The food produced is used to complement the diets of the children participating in the association´s workshops.

ENDA (Association, Bolivia)

Despite a certain amount of progress made by Bolivia since the 1990s and the implementation of the Education Reform, a significant number of young people are still marginalised and cannot exercise their right to acquire essential skills required for adult life. Since they do not have access to high-quality vocational qualifications, these young people have difficulty in achieving social integration. They are also confronted with violence on a daily basis.

The project proposed by Enda and subsidised by the Foundation consists in enhancing the employability and socio-professional integration of 80 marginalised adolescents, both male and female, aged 15 to 20 by enabling them to learn a real trade – woodworking – while providing them with a basic grounding in general knowledge and civics. The items produced are wooden pedagogical toys, which fill a strong need for pedagogical equipment for children aged 3 to 12 in Bolivian drop-in centres, schools, etc.

Esperanza (Association, Brazil)

The project is conducted in Salto da Divisa, a rural town located in one of Brazil´s poorest regions, where the association set up a centre ten years ago. The children receive help with their schooling needs between the age of seven and baccalaureate level, and the current project aims to facilitate the integration of 184 young people aged 12 to 20 into working life, through the provision of preliminary vocational training or access to higher education.

The grant requested from the Air France Foundation is allocated to the purchase of equipment (including hardware)[1], student supplies and books.

Terra dos Homens - ABTH (Association, Brazil)

The project financed by the Air France Foundation aims to provide psychosocial support for 30 infants, children and adolescents under the age of 18 living on the streets of Rio (Centre, Tijuca and Copacabana). The objective is to reintegrate the young people into their families and schools. The families must be willing to see the children or adolescents return, and the family environment must be free of dangers such as domestic violence and drugs. The professionals involved interact with the families by means of interviews, home visits and meetings with groups of families. At the end of the project, which lasts 12 months, the families can cope on their own.

Terre des Hommes Suisse (Association, Colombia)

Two million of Colombia´s 44 million inhabitants are displaced, having fled the violence generated by the armed conflict. Half of these displaced persons are children and young people aged under 18. The current project – which provides educational (additional classes and play activities) and nutritional care – benefits 180 children and young people aged under 16 in poor neighbourhoods in Bogotá. Thanks to a community-assistance component, families receive help in building a new identity and taking ownership of the socio-cultural facilities in their new environments. They also learn how to ensure that their rights are respected by the authorities and by the relevant local entities – the aim being to ensure that the beneficiaries eventually achieve autonomy thanks to the development tools provided. The Air France Foundation provides financial support for this project.

Les Trois Quarts du Monde and Solo para Mujeres (Associations, Guatemala)

In Guatemala, the issues of street children and of violence to women have reached considerable proportions.
A reintegration programme has been set up to provide care for girls and their babies. The beneficiaries are taken out of the street environment and afforded protection, care, education and support until such time as they can become autonomous and, for some of them, take care of their children.

There are two centres providing medical and psychological support as well as training in pottery, ceramics, cookery and cultural activities. Since the extent of the hard-drug problem renders direct access to outside schooling impossible one of the centres provides remedial classes to end-of-primary level, while the other offers basic reading and writing work with a youth worker. The Air France Foundation is providing finance for this programme for the second time.

Care France (Association, Nicaragua)

Within the framework of the education reform initiated in Nicaragua in recent years, access to high-quality education – and notably to infant and primary education – is seen as fundamental in the fight against poverty.
However, in Nicaragua, truancy is widespread, especially in the poorest regions, be they rural or peri-urban.

CARE France action focuses on participative management (interactive teaching methods, better-prepared teachers and school year and curriculum suited to local conditions) to enhance attendance levels and quality of education. The Air France Foundation is supporting this programme.

Médecins du Monde (Association, Peru)

The lack of sex education for young people is seen as a public-health problem in Peru, and is now being addressed by many public and private entities. Nevertheless, teenage pregnancies are on the increase, and the girls concerned are marginalised and receive poor treatment, which means high levels of maternal and infant mortality. Abortion is illegal, and backstreet abortions are widespread, and constitute a considerable health risk. Infection rates for HIV/AIDS and STIs are also on the increase, and the number of specialist care entities is very small.

Toutes à l´Ecole (Association, Cambodia)

Toutes à l´école aims to facilitate education for girls in the poorest countries by setting up schools and pedagogical programmes.

In 2006, the Air France Foundation was approached for help with a project involving the creation of a pilot school designed to provide underprivileged Cambodian girls with a high-quality bilingual education from primary to baccalaureate level – the aim being to enable the girls, in the long term, to fulfil nationally-vital functions in the areas of teaching, medicine, law, economics and tourism in a country whose elite was all but wiped out by the Khmer Rouge genocide.

Couleurs de Chine (Association, China)

In 2006, the association sought help from the Air France Foundation for the construction of a functional building to house the primary school of the Fulu canton, which, due to difficult economic conditions, had been unable to maintain its school buildings.

The new building features a refectory, a kitchen and a dormitory for boarders. This project has been financed in partnership with the Suez foundation.

Galopins de Calcutta (Association, India)

The project involves selecting eight children from the association´s hostels to be sent to English-language boarding schools. Selection is based on academic achievement and on command of English.

The Air France Foundation has been asked to finance five years of schooling. In parallel, the Galopins de Calcutta hostels will take in eight further street children with a view to ultimately providing them with the benefit of this type of education.

Les Amis d´Annaï Velanganni Orphanage (Association, India)

In 1981, Les Amis d´Anaï Velanganni Orphanage (Friends of Anaï Velanganni Orphanage) or A.A.V.O. decided to set up an institution to care for orphans and abandoned children in Pondicherry. The aim of the management team is to provide the children with a family circle giving priority to education, regular medical monitoring and leisure activities.

The grant provided by the Air France Foundation has enabled the construction, behind the orphanage, of a 3-metre-high wall around the playing area, which adjoins a former pond now used as a waste dump.

Enfants du Mékong (Association, Laos)

Enfants du Mékong is committed to helping children by improving their living and working conditions. Of the 20 villages in the area, Tyhng Nyung, a small village 26 km north of Takhek, is the only one with a secondary school. The school, which is made of bamboo, is in extremely poor condition.

The finance provided by the Air France Foundation will enable the construction of a new building housing six classes for the secondary school and a room for small children, as well as toilets and a staff room.

Enfants d´Asie (Association, Philippines)

The aim of Enfants d´Asie is to help underprivileged children in southern Asia by means of a sponsorship programme. All the children helped attend schools located near the reception centres or near their villages. In its centres, Enfants d´Asie conducts a wide range of activities (artistic, sporting, pedagogical, etc.), as well as vocational-training workshops.
The association´s action on the island of Cebu focuses on helping girls living in extreme difficulty to access higher education or vocational training.

The Foundation covers university or vocational-training fees, day-to-day costs and family expenses, as well as the cost of IT or dressmaking classes and of the personnel working on the project.

ATD Quart Monde - Terre et Homme de Demain (Association, Thailand)

Within the framework of the international ATD Fourth World movement, ATD Quart Monde Terre et Homme de Demain aims to support the presence of volunteers working with those most deprived of development in countries outside of the EU and North America. The aim is to conduct cultural actions intended to benefit children and young people in two very poor neighbourhoods of Bangkok.

The grant requested will be used to finance the construction of a building to house activities for children, as well as the purchase of acrobatics accessories for use in artistic learning classes and of supplies for cultural initiatives.

L´Arche de ZOE (Association, Indonesia)

Arche de Zoé aims to provide assistance for tsunami victims in Banda Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
The Air France Foundation supported the association in 2005 by financing a play area in the Mon Ikeun camp. After more than a year working with survivors, Arche de Zoé now wishes to build a living environment, offer new hope for the future and restore access to culture and knowledge – in short, to recreate the autonomy required by people who need to rebuild their lives.

The association wants to build twenty libraries in villages along the west coast of Sumatra, in the Aceh Besar district. The Air France Foundation is supporting the construction of a library.

Secours Populaire Français (Association, Pakistan)

The earthquake that occurred on 8 October 2005 in the Kashmir region took a very heavy toll.
The project aims to refurbish the Rizwan Public School in the city of Muzaffarabad where more than 50 schools have been recorded as destroyed.
The aim is to construct a new building to cater, notably, for children from underprivileged backgrounds. The Air France Foundation is supporting this programme by financing equipment for the school.

Plan (Association, Sri-Lanka)

Fraternité Universelle (Association, Haiti)

In 1993, the association created the Piandassou technical centre which provides general secondary-level education and technical training in the areas of agriculture and construction. The Centre – which is now a “victim” of its own success – needs to extend its premises and to make them standard-compliant in order to maintain the approval of the national vocational-training institute (Institut National de Formation Professionnelle).

The project involves the construction of three new buildings, the creation of three new workshops, the erection of a boundary fence and the upgrading and extension of the sports facilities.
The financing provided by the Air France Foundation will enable this work to be completed.

Solidarité Parasols - Passerelle pour l'espoir (Association, Madagascar)

The project receiving support from the Foundation aims to provide care for street children.
The association needs a van for transporting rice to various sites, taking children to hospital and combing Antsirabe and the surrounding area in search of street children. The vehicle would also enable the children – who have little opportunity to travel – to visit various parts of Madagascar.

The financing provided by the Foundation will enable the purchase of the vehicle.

The “Le Machupichu” theatre company (Mauritius)

One of the key aims of the Machupichu company is to take theatre to places where it is unknown.
The company is currently working with underprivileged and abandoned children in Mauritius. Its aim is to provide them with new frames of reference, to build their creativity and to trigger determination and pleasure in achievement, so that, through their work, the children can develop greater self-esteem and respect for others.

Sports Sans Frontières (Association, Kosovo)

Sports sans Frontières implements development programmes for groups in difficulty (particularly children and young people), using sport as the main tool for education and socialisation.

As a displaced group, the Rom community suffers real discrimination and encounters difficulties caused by the structural marginalisation of Rom society. Community members also suffer from poor educational achievement and poor public healthcare provision.

The aims of the project supported by the Foundation are to train local youth workers in partnership with existing active entities (NGOs and sports teams), to improve available equipment and, where appropriate, to acquire additional equipment.

Samusocial Moskva (Russia)

This Russian association has chosen to focus its action on problems affecting street children and adolescents – notably in the north-eastern part of the city. Thanks to a mobile service, the association can meet those concerned, and offer them medical and psychosocial care.

A new mobile team, with a new specially-equipped vehicle, is due to start work in central Moscow. This extension of the project also involves strengthening local partners´ capacities (networking, technical assistance and training) and initiating analysis of the issue of street children and the problems that they face.

The Air France Foundation is participating in this programme.

BICE (Association, Russia)

BICE, the International Catholic Child Bureau, is an NGO committed to the promotion and protection of children´s rights. It focuses particularly on children who are exploited sexually or at work, street children and children who are disabled, in trouble with the law or victims of war.
The aim of the project is to prevent the abuse and sexual exploitation of children and to provide assistance for abused children in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Latvia. Priority is given to obtaining long-term results.
The two stages of the project are the provision of training for NGO specialists and the implementation of individual organisations´ local projects.

The Air France Foundation finances local projects for twelve organisations within the framework of the overall project.

Secours catholique – Caritas France (Association, Guadeloupe, France)

The project consists in creating an "intercultural digital village" in the town of Abymes, Guadeloupe, providing young people with space, supervision and lasting tools enabling them to gain a better understanding of each other and of their environment and to integrate more successfully into the socio-economic and cultural life of their society.

This programme is financed by the Air France Foundation.

Lanmen Kontre (Association, French Guiana, France)

Lanmen Kontre provides support for children and young people living in underprivileged neighbourhoods of Cayenne.
The project aims to provide lessons that complement schooling and other training, thereby supporting social re-integration of young people who have left the education system. Remedial classes are provided for younger schoolchildren encountering learning difficulties. This action focuses on children from the areas served by the Pasteur school and from the Cité Clives Alexandre neighbourhood, which is a priority-education zone.
A play area is also to be created for children aged 6 to 12, facilitating social integration for the children and their parents.

A.S.M.A.E. (Association, Île-de-France, France)

It is opening a reception and accommodation centre in Bobigny for young mothers and their children.
With a view to appropriately meeting the special needs of these young mothers – who are extremely fragile in psychological and social terms – ASMAE is keen to organise training for the teams of social workers within the framework of an accommodation facility and crèche. The aim is to avoid placing the children in care, to enable the mothers to achieve social rehabilitation and to improve mother-child relationship.

The Air France Foundation is supporting this programme for a three-year period.

Armée du Salut (Fondation, Ile-de-France, France)

The organisation manages the Morfondé estate in Villeparisis, near Charles-de-Gaulle airport, which houses the "Cap Sourire" (heading for smiles) social rehabilitation centre.
The "Cap Sourire" workshop – which is being supported by the Air France Foundation in 2006 – is aimed at people aged 16 to 20 who are in serious difficulty and are excluded from ordinary state-owned support systems.

The workshop provides the young people with a grounding in French, thereby enabling them to develop the autonomy and self-confidence that are required for integration.

Secours Populaire Français (Association, Île-de-France, France)

Its history is closely linked to the provision of holidays for children, young people and families (the first breaks were organised in 1944 for the children of people who had been deported or executed).

Even today, one child in three does not go on holiday, which is why, in the second half of August each year, Secours Populaire organises the so-called "Journée des Oubliés des vacances" (a day for those left behind) for children who have not been away.