Archives 2010-2005

2010

In 2010, the Safran Foundation for Integration extended many of its partnerships as well as offering its support to some ambitious new projects, aimed at facilitating the social and professional integration of disabled and underprivileged young adults.

Supported in 2010 by the Safran Foundation for Integration:

• ABC Autisme Association
• ADEMIMC Association
• Arlette Racineux, Safran employee, disabled sports tennis player
• Astrée Association
• « Atelier au Fils d’Indra » Association
• Aurore Association
• cHeer-uP Federation
• « Dixièmefamille.com » Association
• ENSAM –Optim project
• Foyer Familial l’Oasis
• Frateli Association
• Garches Foundation
• INSAF Association
• « La Clé pour l’Autisme » Association
• Namasté Association
• « Simon de Cyrène » Association
• STRH Stade Toulousain Rugby Handisport (Association of Toulouse rugby club for disabled people in the game of rugby)
  
  
  INSAF Association

The Moroccan Association, INSAF, a consultative body for the United Nations created in 1999, helpswomen and children in situations of difficulty throughout that country. Thanks to the support of the Safran corporate foundation for integration, over 100 young, single mothers have been able to receive training designed to ease their way into working life, and over 150 teenage girls working in domestic service have been able to rejoin their families and go back to school.

To find out more about the INSAF Association, go to
www.insaf.enfance.ma/fr

"ATELIER AU FILS D’INDRA" ASSOCIATION

The "Atelier au fils d’Indra" association was founded in 1982, its mission to help with development and cooperation efforts in India by supplying the financial resources required to provide paid employment to Indian women in serious economic and social difficulty.

The Safran Foundation for Integration supports the association with its embroidery training project at the Pondicherry workshop. Around twenty women have been selected to date in this way from among the neediest of families in order to benefit from this training.

To find out more about “Atelier au fils d’Indra” Association, go to :
www.atelier-indra.org/fr

STRH - STADE TOULOUSAIN RUGBY HANDISPORT (ASSOCIATION OF TOULOUSE RUGBY CLUB FOR DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE GAME OF RUGBY)

Since its creation in 2003, the STRH (Stade Toulousain Rugby Handisport) Association has worked to encourage the social integration of disabled people through sport.

The Safran Foundation for Integration is supporting the development of the ARIS project. In this framework, the STRH has linked up with Labinal, a company of the Safran Group, to work on questions associated with the professional integration of disabled people.

To find out more about “STRH” Association, go to :
www.stadetoulousain-handisport.fr

2009

Side-by-side with its partners, the Safran Foundation for Integration continued in 2009 to work on a daily basis on helping young adults with handicaps, be they physical, mental or social.

Supported in 2009 by the Safran Foundation for Integration:

• Arlette Racineux, Safran employee, disabled sport tennis player
• Astrée Association
• Aurore Association
• Frateli Association
• Jade Association
• Le Bus-Ecole Association
• Le Rocher Association
• Les Ailes de la Ville Association
• Namasté Association
• Nos quartiers ont des talents Association
• Simon de Cyrène Association
• Robert Roche Association
• cHeer-uP Association
• FIDESCO
• Foyer Familial l’Oasis
• Arlette Racineux, Safran employee, disabled sports tennis player
  
  
  Arlette Racineux, disabled sports tennis player

A Group employee, Arlette Racineux, is an internationally-ranked disabled sports tennis player, affiliated to the Fédération Française de Tennis Handisport. She regularly takes part in prestigious competitions worldwide, the most prestigious being the Paralympics.

The Safran Foundation for Integration contributed in 2007 to this top athlete’s preparation for the Beijing Paralympics, where she won a bronze medal in the doubles competition. The Foundation continues to support her in 2009, to prepare for the next Olympic date at London 2012.

To find out more about Arlette Racineux, and about the Fédération Française Handisport –
Commission fédérale de Tennis Handisport

"Nos quartiers ont des Talents" Association

The "Nos quartiers ont des Talents" Association provides a gateway between companies and young graduates from difficult backgrounds, based on the principle of respecting equal opportunities. Through meetings with the world of enterprise, sponsorship initiatives and the setting up of a "CV library", the association has succeeded in finding placements for 3000 bright, young graduates since 2005.

In 2009, the Safran Foundation for Integration decided to provide support for this Association, whose actions echo the Group’s own concerns regarding human resources, in order to provide all these young people with equal opportunities for accessing jobs suited to their abilities.

To find out more:
"Nos quartiers ont des Talents" Association

FIDESCO

FIDESCO is an international solidarity NGO formed in 1981 that works in developing countries, adopting a twin-pronged approach: sending volunteers to use their professional skills to help with development projects, and the direct management of projects on the ground. FIDESCO works on operations in the countries of South America, Asia and Africa.

In 2009, the Safran Foundation for Integration offered its support to this NGO for carrying out a project to create an educational support, training and integration center for women and children in difficulty at Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.

To find out more:
FIDESCO

Frateli Association

Created in 2004, and a recognized voluntary association, the Frateli Association seeks to promote students of high potential ("Good" or "Very Good" grade at baccalaureate) from modest backgrounds (receiving grants) by offering to have them sponsored by high-flying young professionals. In this way, the sponsored students receive moral and methodological support throughout their university studies and at the start of their professional careers.

The Safran Foundation for Integration supports the Frateli Association in its missions, thus testifying to the importance accorded by the Group to actions designed at ensuring equality of opportunity in terms of higher education and career openings. Group members have already volunteered to act as sponsors.

To find out more:
the Frateli Association



2008

The Safran Foundation for Integration underpins the commitment of the Group and its employees to combat all forms of exclusion. The support of the Foundation in collective projects helps provide hope to young adults in difficulty.

Supported in 2008 by the Safran Foundation for Integration:

• ADAPEI du Bas-Rhin Association
• ADEMIMC Association
• Astrée Association
• Aurore Association
• e2c78 Association (School of the second chance in Les Yvelines)
• Fleurs de Sciences Association
• Frateli Association
• Le Bus-Ecole Association
• Le Relais Ile-de-France Association
• Namasté Association
• Pau Wright Aviation Association
• Cheer-Up Federation
• Garches Foundation
  
  
  Astrée Association

The Astrée Association is tasked with restoring social links and combating isolation. To succeed in this mission, the volunteers are trained in listening and relational support. This teaches them how to support persons in difficulty on an individual, regular and long-term basis.

The Safran Foundation for Integration wished to renew in 2008 the support it had already granted in 2007, thereby helping to promote this solidarity initiative in order to target as many people as possible.

To find out more:
the Astrée Association

Namasté Association

An association created in 2005 and based in Toulouse, "Namasté" runs six projects in southern India, aimed at helping the most deprived people through its support of charitable, associative and humanitarian organizations.

The Safran Foundation for Integration, whose brief is to take action in countries where the Group has a presence, has supported "Namasté" for a program designed in conjunction with the Indian Foundation, Ashraya, based in Bangalore and involving the creation of a training center for women in serious difficulties. In 2008, the Foundation extended its support from 2007, this time in the construction of an embroidery workshop.

To find out more:
the Namasté Association

Fleurs de Sciences Association

"Experimentation as a lever of social ties": such is the ambition of this association created in 2006, which has worked since that time on the dissemination of scientific culture, in particular targeting underprivileged populations, as a means of making sciences an avenue of social integration.

In 2008, the SafranFoundation for Integration contributed to the development of this association and suggested that Group members might become volunteers. Several Safran employees now run "roaming science workshops for teenagers and young adults in difficulty".

To find out more:
Fleurs de Sciences

2007

Since the matter of integration or reintegration requires daily follow-up of persons from underprivileged backgrounds or suffering from a disability, the Safran Foundation for Integration looks to extend its commitments over the duration, by perpetuating in 2007 the support it has granted to various initiatives over the course of the previous years.
The Foundation is also keen to identify and support new projects.

Supported in 2007 by the Safran Foundation for Integration:

• ADAPEI du Bas-Rhin Association
• ADEMIMC Association
• APED l’Espoir Association
• Astrée Association
• Au Jour le Jour Association
• Au Moulin Bleu Association
• Association du Foyer Familial l’OASIS
• Handi’Chiens Association
• Les Ailes de la Ville Association
• Les Auxiliaires des Aveugles Association
• Les Papillons Blancs de Paris - APEI 75 Association
• Les Transmetteurs Association
• Mélodia Association
• Namasté Association
• Cheer-Up Federation
• Arlette Racineux, Safran employee, disabled sports tennis player
• Garches Foundation
• Optim project of ENSAM
  
  
  Les Transmetteurs Association

An Association created by teachers of medicine and today open to all retired persons from the fields of medicine and psychiatric health, "Les Transmetteurs" helps in providing training to young people, often from difficult social backgrounds, for careers in medical and psychological ancillary professions.

Represented on the Board of Directors of Les Transmetteurs by a member of its Office, the Safran Foundation for Integration offered its support in 2007 to this Association, thus extending the support already provided in 2005. In this way, it was able to contribute to the creation of an International Training Center for the new Social Emergency and Support (Urgence Sociale et Accompagnement) career paths, thus providing a genuine platform for the transmission of medical knowledge and experience. The first training session, for 18 girls from Macon Lycée, took place in June 2009 at the Paris SAMU HQ.

To find it more:
Les Transmetteurs Association

Garches Foundation

A recognized charity with a solid reputation, the Garches Foundation initiates and implements programs designed to improve the independence and facilitate the social and professional integration of persons with motor skill or sensory disorders.
The Safran Foundation for Integration, represented on the Board of Directors of the Garches Foundation by a member of its Office, supported a multimedia careers training program in 2007 and 2008, enabling these young adults to produce and maintain a website accessible to their types of handicap.

To find out more:
the Garches Foundation

Les Ailes de la Ville Association

In partnership with the Air and Space Museum at Le Bourget, the "Les Ailes de la Ville" Association supports and trains people with professional integration difficulties in the aerospace trades, by including them in the teams tasked with repairing a "Bermuda" seaplane and building an ultralight aircraft.

In 2007, the Safran Foundation for Integration built on this by sponsoring several trainees, thereby setting aerospace - the Group’s major activity - at the heart of its solidarity initiatives. The Foundation renewed its support in 2009.

To find out more:
Les Ailes de la Ville Association

2006

The Safran Foundation for Integration provides its support to projects both in France and in the countries where the Group has a presence. Its ambition is not only to accompany players in the field whose daily duty it is to tackle the problems of integration, but also to initiate and implement its own projects whenever this proves to be a viable option.

Supported in 2006 by the Safran Foundation for Integration:

• Bleu Ciel Association
• "En Mer pour combattre la Sclérose en plaques" Association
• "Le Relais Ile-de-France" Association
• "Sésame Autisme Ile-de-France Ouest" Association
• Cheer-Up Federation
• ELAN project
• Optim project of ENSAM
  
  
  ELAN project

A unifying project for Safran and all its employees, the purpose of the ELAN project is to receive young adults with disabilities on day-release training in the Group’s companies, and to support them with in-house tuition on jobs suited to their type of disability.

Every year since 2005, thanks to the commitment of the Group as a whole and the contribution of the Safran Foundation for Integration, the ELAN project helps these young people to complete their training and obtain their diplomas, all the while learning a trade.

To find out more about
the ELAN program

Cheer-Up Federation

Cheer-Up is a federation of 16 associations whose objective is to help young adults suffering from cancer by providing them with educational support or helping them to carry out a personal or professional project. The volunteers are students from business or engineering schools who are convinced of the importance of psychological factors in treating cancers.

The Safran Foundation for Integration has supported this initiative, thereby reinforcing the Group’s links with the student fraternity, by sharing a common, dynamic objective of providing support to the sick. The Foundation intends to extend its support to the Cheer-Up Federation in 2007 and 2008.

To find out more:
the Cheer-Up Federation

Optim project of ENSAM

This project, initiated by ENSAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers), is intended to broaden recruitment to this prestigious school of engineering in order to include pupils from underprivileged backgrounds in their final year of baccalaureate study at inner-city Lycées.

Thanks to the support of the Safran Foundation for Integration, six students have been able to join this illustrious establishment, in 2006 then in 2007, and be housed close to their place of study.

To find out more:
the ENSAM project,

2005

Since its creation, the Safran Foundation for Integration has provided its support for social and professional integration initiatives aimed at young adults from difficult backgrounds or suffering from a physical or mental disability. Through its actions, it testifies to the Group’s unanimous commitment to the notion of solidarity.

Supported in 2005 by the Safran Foundation for Integration:

• "En Mer pour combattre la Sclérose en plaques" Association
• ELAN project
• "Le Relais Ile-de-France" Association
• "Les Transmetteurs" Association
• "Sésame Autisme Ile-de-France Ouest" Association
  
  
  "Sésame Autisme Ile-de-France Ouest" Association

An association created in 1989 at the initiative of the parents of autistic children or children with developmental difficulties, "Sésame Autisme" supports young adult sufferers with their social and professional integration.

The Safran Foundation for Integration has chosen, since its earliest days, to support this Association in creating a living space for 44 autistic young adults. The Foundation renewed its aid in 2006 in order to see this project through to full fruition.

To find out more:
the Sésame Autisme Association

"Le Relais Ile-de-France" Association

This association pursues a dual objective, with quite an original approach: supporting the social and professional reintegration of young adults from difficult backgrounds through their integration within teams from establishments caring for autistic teenagers.

The Safran Foundation for Integration saw its own dual vocation mirrored in this Association and consequently undertook to work alongside it in 2005, then again in 2006 and 2008. It took charge of providing driving lessons for 30 or so young people so that they could ferry the patients, and supported the training of some 15 young people in the role of specialized educators.

To find out more:
the Le Relais Ile-de-France Association