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Anne Roos-Weil, co-founder of the Pesinet association,won a Social Entrepreneurs Award on June 9, 2010.The NGO, fighting against infant and maternal mortality, has created a community e-healthcare service offering prevention, early detection and treatment of simple illnesses at an affordable cost to the families, via regular follow-ups of health information. It relies on a local network of women acting as community health workers.
More infoFrançois-Henri Pinault, Chairman of the PPR Foundation for Women’s Dignity & Rights, awarded three fellowship grants to social entrepreneurs at the Comptoir général, in Paris.
More infoSince July 2009 the PPR Foundation supports the International Rescue Committee's project in Burundi. The programme sets up self-selected groups of women and men providing savings and loan opportunities. Besides, the members take part to discussions groups about the place of woman in the household. The life story of a programme's family member...
More infoDjamel, a Fnac employee, tells us about his 2-week solidarity leave in Bali….
More infoAdeline shares with us a video and her logbook, telling about her two-week solidarity leave in Rwanda, the Land of a Thousand Hills. Ready for the journey?
More infoIn October 2010, Amélie and Layla, both Fnac employees, travelled to the village of Boukombé, in northern Benin, on a solidarity leave. Their assignment consisted in tutoring elementary school children in reading and French speaking. Beneath the straw huts built within the school compound, the two volunteers provided personalised support to the schoolchildren.
More infoAntoine Delzons, management controller at Vertbaudet, traveled to Takeo in Cambodia on a solidarity leave with the NGO Coup de Pouce to build a boarding school for girls. The establishment will provide inexpensive lodging for students along with various learning programmes in agriculture, IT or tourism.
More infoThe construction of the restaurant, started in November 2009, was completed in September 2010. The restaurant of the Community House, a place of shelter and encounters for genocide survivor widows and victims, is now open.
More infoLast April, Yves Saint Laurent introduced its limited edition bag “Muse Two Artisanal”, in recycled material, the fruit of cooperation between the luxury brand and the women from the NGO “Gafreh” from Burkina Faso, supported by les Filles du Facteur.
More infoArianne de Jong is the coordinator of the Médecins du Monde long term programme in Pakistan, which supports women victims of domestic violence.
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