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The Carrefour Foundation
is an agent for social progress,
working to maximise
employment and social
integration. Drawing on its close
links with local communities and
in keeping with its core business
as a retailer within the Group,
it collaborates with Carrefour’s
philanthropic structures (local
country management teams
and foundations) to support,
encourage, develop and co-
ordinate solidarity initiatives with
local associations. By mobilising
the resources, energy and
motivation of Carrefour teams,
it is the figurehead for the
Group’s solidarity missions
in the various countries where
the company is present, tailored
to the needs of the populations
concerned.
A response of solidarity
to themajor challenges
facing society
The Foundation’s actions revolve
around two major lines of
intervention: food solidarity and
emergency aid. In this way, the
Carrefour Foundation fosters
the creation of innovative
projects to bring concrete and
promising solutions to society’s
problems. Once the impacts
of these projects have been
studied, they are implemented
with a view to the long term,
in order to promote wide scale,
sustainable social inclusion.
THE FOUNDATION’S COMMITMENT
The Carrefour Foundation is in touch with the
major issues facing today’s society, while remaining
close to local needs. It fulfils its public-interest mission
by using food as the basis for solidarity actions aimed
at reducing poverty and exclusion.
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PROGRAMMES
CARRIED OUT
IN 2014
Drawing on Carrefour’s
expertise as a retailer,
the Foundation acts to
reduce exclusion through
food programmes and by
supporting solidarity
projects in the public
interest.
Foodas
ameans for
development
Food
solidarity
OVER
400
PROGRAMMES
IMPLEMENTED SINCE
THE CREATION OF
THE FOUNDATION
FOOD FOR THOSE IN GREATEST NEED
Offering a more balanced and varied diet,
in sufficient quantity, to those who are
vulnerable, through donations and collections,
support for social grocery stores, nutrition
programmes, etc.
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