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66
Corporate Governance
A significant commitment
to humanitarian initiatives focusing on
children and young people
Through the Air France Foundation and KLM AirCares, the
Group supports numerous projects globally which
contribute to providing effective assistance to sick and
disabled children as well as populations in distress. The
Group has contributed funding amounting to 6 million.
The Air France Foundation
The Air France Foundation, created in 1992, works in
partnership with associations and NGOs in the area of
education and training for children and young people,
providing them with financial and practical support. The
Foundation also supports projects submitted by Air
France employees who are already involved in
associations which assist children. In 2007, 1.4 million
was contributed to supporting some 71 projects.
The Air France Foundation also directed its efforts
towards helping sick and disabled children. This year, the
program involved 24 such projects, seven more than in
the 2006 program.
For the 2007-13 period, the Foundation has committed to
a multi-year program amounting to 8.5 million.
KLM AirCares
Every year since 1999, KLM has selected four different
associations for whom it has organized innovative and
imaginative events to help with fund raising. The program
involves donating KLM resources and its communication
network for a three-month period to help these good
causes reach as wide an audience as possible in order to
raise the support and resources they need. In 2007-08,
KLM AirCares gave particular support to combating
diabetes in children. It also contributed, through two
projects based in Brazil and Moscow, to helping orphans
and abandoned children.
Some 450 SOS Children’s Villages located in 132
countries are supporting orphaned or abandoned children
throughout the world: the aim is to build special villages
where such children can find a new, permanent and
secure home in order to enable them to grow up equipped
for an independent future.