CARREFOUR “CLIC SOLIDALE” (SOLIDARITY):20 WINNING PROJECTS, 200,000 EUROS FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION AND NUTRITION
With more than 183,000 votes gathered on the official page of ClicSolidale the first part of the project concluded with: 20 Non Profit Associations chosen by the public and 200,000 euros donated by the Carrefour Foundation for their implementation
Milan, 24 June 2016 – There are 20 winning projects of “ClicSolidale”, the initiative promoted by the Carrefour Foundation Italy, in which 42 Non Profit Associations active in different regions of Italy competed. With more than 183,000 votes collected through the site clicsolidale.carrefour.itthe customers and supporters of the different participating associations were able to choose and vote for their favourite project.
Amongst them, 20 of the winning Non Profit Associations, thanks to the contribution of the Carrefour Foundation, can already start implementing their own projects which range from support for canteens for the poor, to solidarity nutrition, to community vegetable gardens and initiatives promoted in favour of social inclusion. On the same site clicsolidale.carrefour.itit will be possible over the next few months to monitor the progress of the projects up to their full implementation.
FlaviaMarè (CSR Coordinator of Carrefour Italia) declared: “We are very happy to have succeeded in involving such a large number of participants in the “ClicSolidale” project, an important initiative for Carrefour which has set itself the goal of supporting concretely and directly the real needs of the different territories. We will follow closely the various phases of implementation of the winning projects and we will continue our commitment day by day to provide support for the most important social causes throughout the country”.
importanti cause sociali in tutto il Paese”.
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Association City Project Title
COMPANY PANE QUOTIDIANO FONDAZIONE "ARRIGO
VALENTINI" Milan A new refrigerating room ANFFAS MESTRE ONLUS MarconThe boys on the grass shop AGAPE ONLUS Burolo Fraternity Canteen
National ItalianCitadel
NAZIONALE ITALIANA DELL'AMICIZIA ONLUS Turin
ASSOCIAZIONE MARIA MADRE DELLA PROVVIDENZA
of Friendship
ONLUS TurinSet an extra place at table ASSOCIAZIONE UMANITARIA SEMI DI PACE ONLUS Tarquinia No to waste! ASSOCIAZIONE DEL LAZIO SINDROME X FRAGILE
ONLUS Ostia Let’s plant: From orchard to table
FRATERNA TAU ONLUS L'Aquila Associationyour bread L'ALBERO FIORITO ONLUS VarziAsolidaritytree SPORT SENZA FRONTIERE ONLUS Rome Sport and nutrition MOSAICO ONLUS Genoa Cuisine with a smile
FONDAZIONE TOGETHER TO GO ONLUS Milan To each child his spoon
SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA SOCIALE IN-PRESA Giussano From the earth to table
ASSOCIAZIONE BANCO ALIMENTARE DELLA LIGURIA
ONLUS Genoa
Food is good to be shared: help us bring it to the poor
FONDAZIONE UN PASSO INSIEME ONLUS CollegnoThe garden of sensations
BANCO DI SOLIDARIETA' "SILVANO LEOTTA E
ANTONIO BIGONI" ONLUS San Giuliano Milanese
Let us collect the superfluous, let us give whatever is necessary
ASSOCIAZIONE PROGETTO INSIEME Lodi Food - waste + solidarity
ASSOCIAZIONE DON LUIGI DELL'ARAVECCHIA ONLUS Vercelli Set an extra place at table
RONDA CARITA' E SOLIDARIETA' ONLUS Milano Not with bread alone
ASSOCIAZIONE COMUNITA' EMMANUEL ONLUS Salerno Let us support the Tent of solidarity
The Carrefour Group, leading European distributor at the service of the Italian people
The Carrefour Group, the leading distributor in Europe and the second worldwide, operates in Italy with 1,092 sales outlets subdivided into 58 Carrefour Hypermarkets,
450 Carrefour Market Supermarkets, 570 local Carrefour Express sales outlets and 14 Cash and Carry Docks Markets and GrossIpers.
Carrefour, present in 18 regions, employs in Italy more than 20,000 people with a daily commitment to offering the best service to customers, and is
one of the largest distribution companies in the Italian territory.
Innovation, convenience, services and development of fine wine and gastronomic products from the Italian territory are the principal strengths of
Carrefour, which has developed a range of branded products with over 3,000 references, covering all categories of merchandise.
With a view to differentiation and ever greater attention to the quality, convenience and completeness of its offer, Carrefour Italy has developed some extra core business services such as, for example, Carrefour Bank with 30 operating branches and 24 petrol stations managed by the
Group.
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The Carrefour Foundation
The Carrefour Foundation, founded in 2000, has always supported local projects, demonstrating its closeness to the environment in which it operates, without however forgetting projects with a wider national and international scope carried out with top-notch partners, especially with regard to solidarity food, humanitarian aid and intervention in emergency humanitarian situations. With a budget of over 7.7 million euros, in 2015 the Carrefour Foundation financed more than 70 projects in over 15 countries. Among the many initiatives undertaken in Italy:
Organisation of the third international collection with the Food Bank in 2015. Around 10 million meals collected in 10 countries with more than
2,200 Carrefour sales outlets involved.
Financing of a storage cold room for the Food Bank with the aim of collecting the food surpluses generated in Expo:
50 tonnes collected by 34 partner restaurants and stands, to be redistributed to 15 local NGOs in the form of meals for 6,600 disadvantaged people.
At the time of the major floods in Benevento in October 2015, Carrefour and the Carrefour Foundation supplied the
Caritas Foundation with basic necessities to help the victims concerned.
Donation of foodstuffs and basic necessities in favour of associations, canteens for the poor and populations struck by natural disasters (for example: in collaboration with the Lombardy Region reception centres were set up in the areas affected by the Abruzzo earthquake.2]
The Carrefour Foundation encourages solidarity “a click away”: having made food a means of combatting exclusion, it supports solidarity initiatives created on the Internet and on all the social networks. In addition to offering new, greater visibility to associations, these new means of solidarity facilitate new kinds of cooperation. Thus the Carrefour Foundatin has launched “clicsolidali”: in France, Belgium, Italy and Argentina, operations that have enabled the commitment and mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of visitors in favour of a local solidarity project.
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