Solidarité Sida (Romania)

Solidarité Sida is committed to fighting AIDS in France and abroad. It works in partnership with ARAS, Romania´s leading association in the fight against AIDS.The main aim of the "Rêves d´adolescents" (adolescent dreams) project is to enhance the care provided to 60 adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Bucharest and to improve their personal development.
These improvements are brought about through the provision of greater psychosocial support, the creation of a self-help group (fostering cohesion and a feeling of belonging) and the organisation of concrete activities to develop the adolescents´ aptitudes.
This programme is supported by the Air France Foundation.

Activ´Art (Association, Martinique, France)

Activ´Art is committed to facilitating access to culture and thereby fostering more widespread interaction.
It is active in the national "culture in hospital" programme, which fosters artistic and cultural activities in hospitals by encouraging cultural players and managers of healthcare institutions to develop a joint cultural policy. To begin with, the project supported by the Foundation is focusing on a pilot site – the Carbet hospital centre, which is the only rehabilitation centre in the Caribbean.
The aim is to improve the quality of life of young long-stay patients thanks to five artistic workshops encompassing theatre, music, dance and the visual arts, the central theme of which is the idea of a "travel diary".
This project will give rise to a book, an exhibition or a cultural event.

L´Envol pour les enfants européens (Association, France)

Envol, which is located in Echouboulains, near Fontainebleau, is a holiday camp with medical facilities for seriously-ill children.As well as standard "all-patient" breaks, Envol organises short two-night breaks known as the Envol weekends.
The Air France Foundation – which is a co-founder and member of the Envol board – provides financial support for short breaks for children with sickle-cell anaemia, a serious genetic illness affecting the red blood cells.

The short breaks are designed to teach the children, their parents and their brothers and sisters how to live with the illness – general understanding, care, precautions with food and psychological techniques for relieving family tension and increasing the young patient´s resilience.

A Chacun son Everest (Association, Chamonix, France)

A Chacun son Everest ("everyone has his own Everest") enables children to switch status from "sick child" to "conqueror". Today, almost 75% of children suffering from leukaemia or cancer can be cured. All too often, family and friends continue to view these children as patients. The resultant feeling of being different, and the difficulty of reintegration into society act as brakes on "total recovery". This is where the association comes in.

The Air France Foundation supports the association by contributing funds for the creation of a climbing room for the children. This room is also designed for use by disabled children.

Cyberhosto (Association, Toulouse, France)

Cyberhosto enables hospitalised children to overcome isolation, communicate with their loved ones and with other hospitalised children, and learn how to use computers and the Internet. The children can play or learn using appropriate software, and access websites specially selected for their age group. The computers are located in the children´s living spaces (room, school and playroom). Laptop computers are also available for children whose condition or illness limits their mobility.

The Air France Foundation finances new equipment.

Enfants Afghans (Association, Afghanistan)

Enfants Afghans is committed to setting up a mother-and-child hospital in Kabul with a view to providing both patient care and training for medical and paramedical staff.
The Air France Foundation supported the hospital project in 2004 by financing training for Afghan nursing staff.
In 2006, Enfants Afghans requested the Foundation´s help with the creation of an outdoor play area, the installation of a playroom on each floor and the organisation of a training programme for the Afghan educational team managing and monitoring the playrooms.

Biblionef (Association, French-speaking Africa)

Biblionef is committed to facilitating access to books and reading for some of the world´s most underprivileged children and adolescents. It also sets up libraries.
In 2005, the Air France Foundation financed the translation and publication in French of 10,000 copies of a children´s book on AIDS aimed at children aged 6 to 12 living in isolated and poor rural regions of French-speaking Africa.
In 2006, the Foundation was asked to fund the printing of a further 10,000 copies of the book. Biblionef, which works in collaboration with the regional AIDS information and prevention centre or CRIPS (centre régional d´information et de prévention du sida), distributes the book to some 200 associations in the CRIPS network in Africa.

François-Xavier Bagnoud (Association, South Africa)

The François-Xavier Bagnoud association aims to fight the effects of AIDS and to help orphans and vulnerable children by providing overall support for families and communities looking after them.
It implements community-development programmes designed to strengthen families living with HIV/AIDS and to limit the effect of the virus on orphans and vulnerable children. As well as addressing the issues of children´s rights, sexual abuse, violence and AIDS information and prevention, the François-Xavier Bagnoud association provides care outside of school hours for orphans and vulnerable children.

The association has asked the Foundation to finance a programme providing care outside of school, two hours per day from Monday to Friday, for 120 young people aged 10 to 18.

Solidarité Enfants Sida (Association, Benin)

Solidarité Enfants Sida (Sol En Si) aims to foster and encourage solidarity and assistance for children and families living with HIV/AIDS.
The project is conducted in partnership with a cooperative clinic which identifies the children, monitors the families, provides training and runs support groups.

The Beninese association APEIF manages the project on the ground, providing social, educational and psychological support for children one or both of whose parents have died of AIDS. Voluntary "sponsors" known as "Tontons" (uncles) and "Tantis" (aunties) receive training to help them create social and emotional ties with the children. This initiative requires financial assistance with school fees and with the provision of food, clothing and medical care.

The grant provided by the Foundation will enable the medical and psychological care provided for the children and adolescents, as well as the training provided for the supervisory staff and that provided for the "Tontons" and "Tantis", who constitute essential links with the children, to be enhanced.

Handicap International and Interaide (Associations, Madagascar)

Handicap International helps people suffering from impairment or disability.
The French association "Inter aide" is dedicated to fighting extreme poverty in developing countries through social rehabilitation of families.

They intend to work together on a project aimed at ensuring better education for disadvantaged and/or disabled children in the poor Isotry quarter of Antananarivo, through socio-educational, training and awareness-raising activities. The challenge involves getting families and the community to work together to achieve greater recognition of disability and of the children concerned.

The Air France Foundation is participating in this programme.

Association Sportive et Sociale des Handicapés et Adhérents Valides (Martinique, France)

ASSHAV (sporting and social association for disabled people and able-bodied members) is affiliated to the French disabled-sports federation (Fédération Française Handisport). It seeks, notably, to give people suffering from physical or sensory disability an opportunity to engage in accessible sporting activities.
Torball is a team sport that was specially developed for visually-impaired people.
The project is aimed primarily at children, because self-esteem is acquired during childhood, and visually-impaired children are often unable to participate in the physical activities practised by their able-bodies friends.
After conducting an introductory torball course, the association would like to establish permanent clubs within existing entities catering to the needs of able-bodied people. It is also keen to organise appropriate sporting activities in centres for disabled children. The Foundation´s support will help make these wishes come true.

Goëland (Association, France)

Goëland provides moral, administrative and financial support for disabled Air France employees and their families, and for employees´ disabled children.
Two former employees – both of them ski enthusiasts who have become disabled – have set up a skiing activity for disabled people in collaboration with the Air France sporting association (Amicale Sportive d´Air France).
A physically- and intellectually-disabled child was one of the participants. The benefits of the break were clear to see, both in the child´s behaviour and in terms of ease of integration into a special school.

The association is therefore keen to deploy this activity to all concerned children of Air France employees, and has chosen the Serre Chevalier resort for its sunshine and its proximity to Briançon (where there are centres offering treatment for respiratory problems and disabilities of all kinds).

The Air France Foundation is participating in this programme through the purchase of special equipment.

APETREIMC (Association, Ile-de-France, France)

APETREIMC works to promote special education, care and rehabilitation for children with cerebral palsy, and to foster their integration by ensuring that they are in contact with able-bodied children. APETREIMC manages three drop-in centres for able-bodied and physically-disabled children (40% of the children suffer from cerebral palsy).
Pupils with cerebral palsy are able to receive an education in a standard school environment.

From the outset, however, their integration in school requires the support of a cross-disciplinary team specialising in cerebral palsy.
Unfortunately, little time is spent covering cerebral palsy during initial training. The aim of the project financed by the Foundation, therefore, is to train freelance therapists to take care of children with cerebral palsy, and to ensure that they, in turn, can train further professionals.

Krousar Thmey (Association, Cambodia)

Krousar Thmey, which is Cambodia´s leading foundation for underprivileged children, focuses on three issues – child protection, education and schooling for disabled and underprivileged children, and the cultural and artistic development of children and of Cambodians in general.

Krousar Thmey approached the Air France Foundation for help in developing IT tools for the Chba Ampeou school for deaf children near Phnom Penh. The school needs new computers in order to provide pupils with computer-science classes, translate schoolbooks, publish books and create a DVD to help parents learn sign language.

PADEM (Association, Mongolia)

PADEM ("Programmes d´Aide et de Développement Enfants du Monde" – aid and development programmes for children worldwide) is a Franco-Luxembourg NGO.
The project supported by the Foundation concerns support for disabled Mongolian children living in Ulaanbaatar. The children, fully involved in the actions conducted in their favour, enjoy in-home services including basic education, library & bookshop services, care, social assistance for the parents and educational games. The families are also committed to the project.

Bretagne Vietnam (Association, Vietnam)

Since 1990, Bretagne Vietnam has been active in Hue and the surrounding region, in central Vietnam. While most of its actions are designed to help children through education and vocational training, important areas such as health and economic development are not overlooked.