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Carrefour Foundation – 2014 annual report –
100
SMALL FARMERS
HAVE SEEN THEIR
INCOME RISE OVER
A TWO-YEAR PERIOD
Manos Abiertas
INVESTING INTRAINING:
ASTEPTOWARDSEMPLOYMENT
In Argentina,
Manos Abiertas
works with the long-term
unemployed to help them regain
a sense of self-confidence and
pride. Getting better training
is an essential step towards
finding a job, and this is where
the Carrefour Foundation gets
involved. In 2014, 196 students
were trained in the food and
catering trades. The focus of
this year’s project was renovating
the bakery school. The bakery,
which was built in 2006, has
been completely renovated and
extended so that more vocational
courses can be offered and more
students trained at one time.
Nearly 400 students will be able
to be trained when the bakery
reopens, scheduled for June 2015.
And this solidarity extends beyond
the doors of the bakery, because
the dishes that the students
prepare are then distributed to
beneficiaries of the association.
In addition, employees of Carrefour
Argentina help the unemployed
return to work, through the
“
Sumando Voluntades
”
programme (see page 24).
833
YOUNG PEOPLE FROM
DISADVANTAGED
NEIGHBOURHOODS HAVE
BEEN TRAINED SINCE THE
BAKERY SCHOOL WAS
OPENED IN 2006
XinjiangUygur Youth
Development Foundation
SUPPORT FORSMALL
FARMERS INTHEALTAI
Xinjiang Uygur Youth
Development Foundation has
been working since 1992 with
the poorest rural communities,
at the very heart of the Xinjiang
Uygur region. In 2007, the
Carrefour Foundation helped to
build and equip a “Hope School”,
so that young children from
disadvantaged families could
have an education. Since then,
the association has worked to
assist 100 small farmers from
the Altai living below the Chinese
poverty line (RMB 2,300, or
about €325 per month),
developing their skills and
increasing their income. This
aid comes in various forms.
Professional training in good
farming practices and technical
advice provided by Carrefour
employees play a key role, in
terms of education. In addition,
a microcredit systemmakes it
possible to purchase seed and
equipment, which are essential
for the survival and development
of farmers living in these rural
areas.
The
Apprentis d’Auteuil
Foundation
REVIVINGTHETASTEFOR LEARNING
Every year in France,
140,000 young people leave
the school system without any
qualifications and bear the full
brunt of unemployment. This
alarming observation is behind
the work of the
Apprentis
d’Auteuil
Foundation. In 2014,
the Carrefour Foundation and
staff from the Group became
involved with the association
by offering training and
internships to discover
the various trades and
employment opportunities
within the Group’s various
stores. This provided these
young people with a rich
learning experience and was
a decisive step towards finding
a job. To help improve the
quality of the training, a grant
of €20,000 made it possible
to renovate classrooms on
the site of the Saint-Jean
vocational college in Sannois
in the Val-d’Oise department.
As a result, since
September 2014, students
studying for the CAP
professional certificate
have benefitted from a modern
and innovative teaching
environment with new
technical facilities, a teaching
store with commercial fittings
and two classrooms equipped
with computers. “It has given a
new boost to our sales training.
Students and teachers both
need to be closer to the jobs
market,” says Anne-Laure
Fourneret, Charity and
Philanthropy manager
for the association in the
Greater Paris area. Students
greatly appreciate the
new environment, which
encourages them to want
to make the effort to succeed.
A whole virtuous cycle gets
under way. Spurred on by this
first step,
Apprentis d’Auteuil
is now targeting other regions
and hopes jointly to create
specific training for the
various food and catering
trades.
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,
000
STUDENTS AND FAMILIES
BENEFITTED FROM THE
WORK OF THE
APPRENTIS
D’AUTEUIL
FOUNDATION
IN FRANCE IN 2014
CHINA
FRANCE
ARGENTINA