Our action programs
In addition to the company’s social and environmental commitments, the Lacoste Foundation is also committed to promoting a fairer society, as reflected in our Durable Elegance approach.
“Giving young people and communities the means to live better and thrive”: this is the philanthropic mission pursued by the Foundation, through a twofold focus.
Youth
We are convinced that sport is a powerful lever for social and professional integration. With our “Youth” programme, we support education through sport projects that enable young people to overcome barriers due to their origins, background or disability, to become more independent, unleash their full potential and build a brighter future with confidence.
Our objective
PROJECTS SUPPORTED TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE BLOSSOM AND FIND THEIR PLACE IN SOCIETY BY 2025
Communities
Our foundation helps to improve the living conditions of local communities in countries where Lacoste or its suppliers operate by supporting projects implemented by local non-profits in the fields of education and vocational training, the environment and social entrepreneurship.
Our objective
initiatives benefiting local communities co-financed by the Foundation and our suppliers by 2025
Projects currently supported
- argentina 1
- brazil 2
- china 1
- colombia 1
- france 9
- israel 1
- italy 1
- madagascar 1
- mexico 1
- morocco 2
- panama 1
- peru 2
- portugal 1
- south africa 1
- south korea 1
- spain 1
- sri lanka 2
- tunisia 2
- turkey 2
- united states 1
- vietnam 2
Innovating my future
Aldeas Infantiles is the Argentinian entity of SOS Children's Villages, an international NGO . For 70 years SOS Children’s Villages' mission is to build families for children in need, to help them shape their own futures and to share the development of their communities. SOS provides assistance to children and young people in vulnerable situations promoting their development and autonomy by fostering them in protective family environments and strengthening their family, social and community networks.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Mar del Plata and Lujan
- Number of young people who will be supported during the project: 50
- Age group: 8-17
DESCRIPTION
The goal of this project is to provide weekly trainings in digital skills for 50 young people in 2 Centres of technological innovation ( Mar del Plata and Lujan) to develop their skills in computer literacy, internet, coding, responsible use of social media, etc . The Lacoste Foundation financial support will also be used to equip the 2 centres ( PCs, internet access, softwares etc)
Gol de Letra
Gol de Letra supports the integration of young people from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo through sports, artistic and cultural activities
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Brazil – Rio de Janeiro
- Year of launch: 2006
- Number of young people supported each year: 680
- Age group: 8 – 30 years old
DESCRIPTION
In Caju, in the centre supported by the Lacoste Foundation, young people can practice different sports (judo, GRS, tennis and badminton) and artistic activities (theatre, dance, writing workshop…). From the age of 16, the organisation also offers them vocational training and academic support to prepare for higher education.
VIVENDA DA CRIANçA
Vivenda is working to reduce social inequality in the neighbourhood of Parelheiros and Marsilac in São Paolo, Brasil, both located in the extreme south of the city.
Its mission is to prepare and unlock the potential of the young people served for life and for the job market, encouraging and enabling the individual growth of each person assisted with social assistance, education and culture .
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
Location : Parelheiros and Marsilac in Sao Paolo
Launch Year : 2024
Nb of young people supported: 120
Target group : 15-24 years old
DESCRIPTION
The aim is to train 120 young people in a preparatory course for the job market.
Divided into 3 groups of 40 young people, the participants will be supported for 4 months, and will benefit from group and individual sessions focusing on non-technical skills: soft skills, introduction to the world of work, job search support, understanding codes and customs, ethics, etc.
Beyond the City
Beyond the City（乡村笔记,) was founded in September 2017 by graduates of Fudan University, to address the social and economic gap between the city and rural areas in China. Its mission is to eliminate the economic barriers, highlight social inequalities between urban and rural China, help young people build their self-confidence and develop their career.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: CHINA -SHANGHAI
- Year of launch: 2023
- Number of young people supported each year: 20-25 students
- Age group: 18- 24 year sold
DESCRIPTION
Beyond The City supports college students from underpriviledged rural areas to build their confidence and learn some career skills.
The program will provide both online and offline activities to help students prepare for future challenges, gain self-confidence, build up their career plan and adapt to life in the city.
Threads of Hope - Hilos de Esperanza
Corporación Empresarial del Oriente Antioqueño (CEO), is an industry association that aims to support companies in the construction of sustainable businesses.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Colombia
- Year of launch: 2021
- Number of young people supported each year: 180
- Age group: 25 – 60 years old
DESCRIPTION
Threads of Hope is a project aiming at empowering women from rural areas through training in arts and craft, psychosocial support, training in entrepreneurship and healthy habits.
Apprentis d'Auteuil
The Fondation Apprentis d’Auteuil welcomes and promotes the education, training and social and professional integration of young people in difficulty and their families.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: France
- Year of launch: 2008
- Number of young people supported each year: 446
- Age group: 6 – 20 years
DESCRIPTION
In 2010, the Apprentis d’Auteuil Foundation inaugurated the Tennis-School programme, in partnership with the Lacoste and Robert Abdesselam Foundations. Each year, this project enables more than 400 young people aged between 6 and 20 to benefit from regular tennis practice in 21 Apprentis d’Auteuil establishments.
Sport dans la Ville
Sport dans la Ville is the main charity for integration through sport in France. Each year, its programmes support, promote and facilitate the social and professional integration of 7,000 young people.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: France
- Year of launch: 2010
- Number of young people supported each year: 160
- Age group: 8 – 16 years old
DESCRIPTION
Since 2010, we have been supporting the “L dans la ville” programme, which is aimed exclusively at young girls. Thanks to the Lacoste Foundation, Sport dans la Ville has included tennis in this programme. 160 young girls from the Rhône-Alpes and Île-de-France regions play tennis for two hours a week and receive support to prepare for their professional integration.
Crocogolf Nord
Crocogolf is an initiative of the French Golf
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: France – Lille
- Year of launch: 2014
- Number of young people supported each year: 16
- Age group: 6 – 10 years old
DESCRIPTION
Every year, about fifteen children from the Ronchin and Lille social centres join the Lille golf club for a weekly lesson. This practice allows them to access a new world, to gain self-confidence but also to learn perseverance. They also have free access to the course outside their lessons, like all the other members of the golf club.
Eloquentia
Through its workshops in rhetoric, stage expression and vocal coaching, Eloquentia helps everyone to "find their voice" by encouraging dialogue and building confidence.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: France – Paris
- Year of launch: 2020
- Number of young people supported each year: 48
- Age group: 15 – 18 years old
DESCRIPTION
Since 2020, the Lacoste Foundation has been providing young people from the Apprentis d’Auteuil with training sessions lasting between 14 and 28 hours. Eloquentia’s work with young people has been the subject of a film, which has been acclaimed in cinemas.
Comme les Autres
The association Comme les Autres offers social support, particularly through physical activities, to people who have become physically disabled after an accident.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: France
- Year of launch: 2021
- Number of young people supported each year: 40
- Age group: 18 – 25 years old
DESCRIPTION
The support offered by Comme les Autres is based on 3 pillars:
- individual support for one year by a social worker
- collective sports and cultural activities
- a sports adventure trip or a thrilling activity
All these activities should enable the person to learn to live with their disability and regain their self-confidence.
Handisport Federation
The Paris Handisport Federation offers activities adapted to people with disabilities.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Paris
- Year of launch: 2021
- Number of young people supported each year: 45
- Age group: 10 – 20 years old
DESCRIPTION
Within three institutions specialised in three types of disability (physical, hearing and visual), the Handisport Federation intervenes to offer 2 hours of dance per week for 6 months to young people aged 10 to 20. This sport, which is also an art form, has a significant impact on the empowerment of young people.
French Golf Federation
The Paris Ile-de-France Golf League wishes to extend the practice of golf to people with disabilities.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Paris – Région Ile-de-France
- Year of launch: 2021
- Number of young people supported each year: 30
- Age group: 15 – 30 years old
DESCRIPTION
Between 2021 and 2024, the Paris Ile-de-France Golf League aims to extend the practice of golf to 2,000 mentally handicapped people and 210 people with physical disabilities. To achieve this, it will develop handicap centres in 20 golf clubs in the region.
Etendart
Etendart promotes youth inspiration and insertion through sport and creative arts. They accomplish it by renovating and decorating sports venues before animating them over the long run.
FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: France
- Year of launch: 2023
- Number of young people supported each year: 390
- Age group: 8 – 16 years old
DESCRIPTION
- Implementation of all-year long educational programs combining sports and creative arts
- Organization of holidays camps mixing sports and creative arts (stand up, programming, photo, ecology,…)
- Organization of events to promote athletes and sponsors to the general public and the younger audience.
Insertion programs encourage personal and academic development for disadvantaged kids aged 8 to 16, who are identified working with local partners (townhalls, schools, other NGO, independent actions).
Article 1
ARTICLE 1 is a general interest association that fights against inequality of opportunity in France to ensure that each young person succeeds according to his or her potential and ambitions, and not according to his or her social, economic, geographical or cultural background.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: France
- Year of launch: 2018
- Number of young people supported each year: 150 000
- Age group: 15 –26 years old
DESCRIPTION
They support young people from modest backgrounds, from high school to the professional world, through several action programmes combining digital and classroom learning. Each year, more than 150,000 young people benefit from their programmes throughout France.
The association has 7 regional branches (Grand Est, Hauts de France, Ile-de-France, Normandy, PACA, Pays de la Loire, Occitanie)
Israel Tennis & Education Center
For thirty-five years, ITEC, the Israel Tennis and Education Centers network of clubs, has been providing underprivileged Israeli children with social programs.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Israel – Akko
- Year of launch: 2011
- Number of young people supported each year: 35
- Age group: 9 – 12 years old
DESCRIPTION
The Akko club, supported by the Lacoste Foundation, welcomes 35 underprivileged young people each year, regardless of their faith. During the year, these children benefit from self-confidence workshops, tutoring and the development of fundamental values of tolerance and cooperation.
Sport Senza Frontiere
Created in Rome in 2011, Sport Senza Frontiere (Sport Without Borders) is an association that works for a society in which sport is accessible to everyone and it is recognisable and used as an educational tool for prevention, inclusion and social cohesion.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Milan – Italy
- Year of launch: 2022
- Number of young people supported each year: 80
- Age group: 6 – 17 years old
DESCRIPTION
“Programma Sport Senza Frontiere” is a socio-educational inclusion program realized through the sport practice, addressed to minors in socio-economic needs. The program provides the inclusion of beneficiaries in sport courses, along with the support and monitoring of an Educator, a psychologist and a local coordinator. The initiative grants medical visits and promotes the importance of health prevention. During the summer, 70 beneficiaries will have access to 1 week of daily summer camps called JOY POINTS, and 10 beneficiaries will be selected for joining the residential JOY Summer Camp in Gressoney (Italian Alps). During Summer Camps, a multidisciplinary team will take care of them, providing educational and sports activities.
Caritas Antsirabe
Caritas Antsirabe is an NGO that supports technically, materially and financially the members of the grassroots communities, peasant organizations, women's groups, etc. to improve their living conditions. It also works in vocational training for young people in precarious situations in Antsirabe and its surroundings and accompanies them in their integration into employment. In 1993, it founded the Risika Center, a vocational training center under the name of "Ecole de Carrières Professionnelles".
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Antsirabe – Madagascar
- Launch year: 2022
- Number of youth supported: 240
- Age range: 16 to 18 years old
DESCRIPTION
Each year, the Risika Center rejected more than a hundred candidates, due to the lack of infrastructure and equipment. Thanks to the project of extension of the Center and the recruitment of new teachers, supported by the Lacoste Foundation, RISIKA center has been able to increase by 90 the number of young people in precarious situation who can follow free vocational training in metal structure, woodwork, cutting and sewing – embroidery, bike mechanics, agriculture, hotel and restaurant, hairdressing and car-motorcycle mechanics. Therefore, from the academic year 2022 – 2023, Risika Center will host 240 young learners girls and boys instead of 150 in previous years.
Enseña Por México
Enseña por Mexico, is a non-profit organization committed to developing leadership within the educational sector to ensure all children in Mexico can fulfill their potential, regardless of their context or socioeconomic limitations. In order to transform the educational sector from within, we developed a two-year Leadership Program (LP), which involves fellows (Profesionales de Enseña por México/PEM) collaborating directly with schools and educational communities in underserved contexts.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Suburb of Mexico City, Mexico
- Year of launch: 2023
- Number of young people supported each year: 649 students
- Age group: 14 – 18 years old
DESCRIPTION
Through our Leadership Program (LP) and with the support of the Lacoste Foundation, we will recruit four fellows (PEM) to participate actively in three schools located in the suburbs of Mexico City. The fellows will collaborate full-time in the schools to enhance the academic and socioemotional skills of students while creating school-wide activities and projects. Students who attend the three schools between the ages of 14 and 18 will be the main beneficiaries.
Birdies of Mogador
In Essaouira, Morocco, the Birdies de Mogador association introduces golf to girls and boys from the fishing villages near the golf course.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Morocco – Essaouira
- Year of launch: 2011
- Number of young people supported each year: 60
- Age group: 7 – 18 years old
DESCRIPTION
Aged between 7 and 18, the young people benefit from free weekly training, completed by courses during the holidays. The demands of this sport allow them to build themselves in a system based on merit and hard work. It also opens up new professional prospects in the golfing world (player, tourism, management, etc.).
Tibu Morocco
Tibu Morocco is an NGO that uses the power of sport to design innovative social solutions in the field of education, empowerment and socio-economic inclusion of youth and women through sport. As the leading organization in the education and inclusion of youth and women through sport with a wide national coverage in more than 25 cities and 12 regions. In line with its ambition to become the locomotive of sport for development in Africa by 2030, Tibu is committed to contribute to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Key facts about the project n°1 : Education through sport ” Play Tennis
- Location: Casablanca, Morocco
- Starting year: 2022
- Number of beneficiaries per year: 90
- Age range: 7 – 11 years old
Description
The Tennis Education Program aims to develop the motor, cognitive and social-emotional skills of children and youth through regular tennis workshops and leadership and self-esteem workshops.
Key facts about the project n°2 : Professional integration through sport
- Location: Casablanca, Morocco
- Year of launch: 2022
- Number of beneficiaries per year: 10
- Age range : 18 – 25 years old
Description
The program for the professional integration of young people through sport aims to promote the employability of young people in NEET (Neither in Education, Employment or Training) situations, aged between 18 and 25, from vulnerable neighborhoods in Casablanca. The objective of this project is to prepare and accompany these young people towards a professional and social insertion in the sports industries which opens several perspectives and widens the field of intervention towards employment for the beneficiaries without qualifications, by equipping them with the necessary tools and skills.
CHICHICA
Chichica Association is a non-profit organization which enables resources and volunteers for better access to education in extreme poverty communities in rural Panama . The goal is to improve access to education and generate equal opportunities for the future of every kid, especially for communities leaving in remote areas.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
Location : Cocle Province ( interior of the country)
Lauch year : 2024
Nb of young people supported : 75
Target group:15-18 years old
DESCRIPTION
The aim of the project is to help 75 young secondary school students from rural communities in the province of Cocle to continue their studies (secondary and university where appropriate) in good conditions by providing them with school supplies (books, uniforms, school bags, etc.), regular and safe transport to and from school, and inspiring extra-curricular activities to broaden their horizons.
ReciclaLatam
ReciclaLatam raises awareness and articulates actions to promote inclusive recycling and insure a second life to the recovered materials in Latin America.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Peru
- Year of launch: 2022
- Number of young people supported each year: 50
- Age group: 40 – 70 years old
DESCRIPTION
In Peru, the Lacoste Foundation supports the implementation of a recycling network and the formalization of recyclers in Chincha and Ica.
The project will also include strong awareness campaigns for the public.
CARITAS PERU
Member of the international Caritas network, Caritas Peru's mission is to promote and implement intervention programmes in favour of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the country: health, education, access to basic necessities, etc.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: 5 localities in the Santa Rosa district, Melgar province, Puno region (South Peru)
- Number of people who will be supported during the project: approx 100 families/ 500 people
- Age group: 0-77
DESCRIPTION
The project’s goal is to support families living in rough conditions in the Andean regions to better resist to extreme wheather conditions (low temperatures, floods etc) with interventions at different levels:
- strenghtening community disaster risk management
- improving rural housing ( insulation)
- improving community health
- improving and monitoring animal health ( cattle as main source of income for the families)
Academia dos Champs
Academia dos Champs helps underprivileged young people from the region around Lisbon, Porto and southern Portugal to develop through tennis and its values of tenacity, respect and team spirit.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Portugal
- Year of launch: 2010
- Number of young people supported each year: 220
- Age group: 5 – 25 years old
DESCRIPTION
Throughout the year, more than 200 young people take tennis lessons, participate in training courses organised by the association and in tournaments. The association also supports the professional integration of young people through mentoring, English courses, sponsorship and its various partnerships with companies.
Tennis South Africa
Tennis South Africa is the custodian of tennis in South Africa. Our vision is “to see someone play tennis somewhere, everyday”. In alignment with the vision, Tennis South Africa initiated Development Centres in 2018 to ensure accessibility to the tennis through coaching for children of all ages from disadvantaged areas. Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre is one of the Development Centres that provide access to children from the greater Gauteng region.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Education of children (7-18 years old) through the practice of tennis (learning both tennis and soft life skills)
- Coach mentorship and empowerment for 10 young coaches from the Arthur Ashe region
- Professional integration program for a Junior Administrator Internship within the AATC team
DESCRIPTION
TSA has partnered with Lacoste Foundation to provide a Learn and Play Collective program that ensures kids learning from soft skills in their tennis journey and coaches being able to initiate empowerment programs in their communities and reach more children.
The project will contribute to promote and develop youth empowerment in poor area of South Africa by giving vulnerable children a chance to practice tennis and increase soft live skills.
Child Fund Korea
Childfund Korea works to protect children's rights in Korea and help children suffering from poverty and disease.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
- Location: Korea
- Year of launch: 1948
- Number of young people supported each year: 1 000 000
- Age group: 0 – 25 years old
DESCRIPTION
ChildFund Korea addresses the four categories of child rights (survival, protection, development, and participation) set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, so that children in Korea can grow up in a healthy and safe environment.
Superaccio
Superaccio, is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to promote the empowerment of young people at risk of social exclusion through action and sport. Its
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
- Location: Spain – Barcelona
- Year of launch: 2012
- Number of young people supported each year: 390
- Age group: 15 – 25 years old
DESCRIPTION
Their different methodologies include physical activity, corporal and artistic expression.
The organization seeks both personal development and the social and occupational integration of the young participants.
Federation of Environmnental Organizations
The FEO is a Federation of Environmental Organizations that work collaboratively towards conserving Sri Lanka’s environment.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Sri Lanka
- Year of launch: 2022
- Number of young people supported each year: 55
- Age group: 25 – 60 years old
DESCRIPTION
The 3-year project aims at preserving the Lunugamvehera Nationational Park from invasive alien species, Lantana camara (Gandapana) and Eupatorium odoratum (Podi singho maran) that have occupied more than 5% of the land.
It will also raise awareness among the local community about the importance of biodiversity in this parks, not only for the environment but also for their livelihood.
UNDP/SevaLanka
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's main fund for helping developing countries by providing advice, financial support and technical expertise on the ground to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is working with local NGOs to implement the projects.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Vavuniya region
- Year of launch: 2023
- Number of young people who will be supported during the project: 100 families ( approx 600 Persons)
- Age group: 0-70
DESCRIPTION
To develop an income-generating activity for around a hundred families living in extremely precarious conditions in the Vavuniya region, in order to provide them with a means of subsistence and access to better food by setting up :
-small-scale poultry farming (supply of eggs, equipment, training, veterinary monitoring)
-Market gardening (supply of fruit/vegetable seeds, equipment and irrigation, training and technical support).
-Support for the development of a weekly local producers’ market within the Hirdaramani factory (co-financer) to ensure the sale of produce.
=> Support for the creation of a cooperative/social enterprise to ensure fair remuneration for producer families.
in partnership with HIRDARAMANI
Djerba Golf Association
The Association Sportive du Golf de Djerba was created to support the social integration of underprivileged children from the villages surrounding the golf course.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Tunisia – Djerba
- Year of launch: 2006
- Number of young people supported each year: 103
- Age group: 5 – 25 years old
DESCRIPTION
Every year, the Djerba Golf Sports Association allows about a hundred children to learn about golf on Saturdays and Sundays. This practice, which opens them up to the positive values of sport, also allows them to discover new horizons through courses organised during the holidays and competitions held throughout Tunisia. The association completes its action with school support sessions.
ATPNE Korba
ATPNE Korba was created in 1992 as a section of the Tunisian Association for the Protection of Nature and Environment. In March 2012, we became an independent association. Our Vision is to promote the development of a responsible, committed, and ecological society aligning with the human rights and sustainable development goals.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: KORBA and SOLIMAN
- Year of launch: 2022
- Number of beneficiaries : 160
- Age group: 20 – 60 years old
DESCRIPTION
The project “Building a Resilient Local Community to Climate Change” will target 100 rural women who will be trained and accompanied in entrepreneurial skills reinforcement in order to help them create alternative income generating options such as ecotourism activities (serving as a guide tour, making local food and handcraft local products) in addition to 60 local farm holders who will be trained to adopt sustainable farming methods such as Biodynamic farming, Hydroponics and urban agriculture, in the context of adaptation to the climate change impacts.
ÇEKVAK
ÇEKVAK is a NGO which aims to contribute by raising modern, secular, democratic, enlightened people and free-thinking individuals through educational, social and cultural activities.
ÇEKVAK supports the transformation of volunteering into a taught responsibility and ensure that each young person can grow up as a sensitive active world citizen, a responsible adult socially responsible, entrepreneur and voluntary.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Turkey – Bursa
- Year of launch: 2023
- Number of young people supported each year: 100 students from 3 high schools (2 in Bursa (Turkey) and 1 in Egypt)
- Age group: 14 – 18 years old
DESCRIPTION
The main objective of this project is to raise awareness of young people between the ages of 14-18 about the concepts of social responsibility, volunteering and multiculturalism. Students will be trained with a participatory and practical approach and they will be asked to make various activities and projects : producing videos, organizing volunteering projects, etc. The project is bilingual (Turkish&English) as the idea is to create an exchange between schools in Turkey and in Egypt.
Turkish Education Foundation
Turkish Education Foundation provides scholarship support to Turkish students who are successful and lack who lack financial possibilities and carries on its works for better education for more than 50 years. The Foundation aims to contribute to achieving the sustainable development goals of the United Nations through the activities it carries out. However, it focuses on "quality education" and "gender equality", which are SDG 4 and SDG 5.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Bursa Province in Turkey
- Year of launch: 2023
- Number of young people who will be supported during the project: 15
- Age group: 18 – 22
DESCRIPTION
Within this project’s scope, 15 female university students, particularly those studying at Bursa province, will be supported with scholarships through the financial support of Lacoste Foundation and Yeşim Group. Also, the students entitled to get scholarships will be invited to the training that Yeşim Group will conduct during the education period. Finally, the students can participate in other activities conducted within TEV, such as a mentoring program or online academy courses. Through the mentoring program, the employees of Yeşim Group will support the students by sharing their experiences with them.
City Parks Foundation
At City Parks Foundation, we are dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through sports, arts, community building and education programs for all New Yorkers. Our programs — located in more than 350 parks, recreation centers and public schools across all five boroughs of New York City — reach 310,000 people each year. The Lacoste Foundation supports our Tennis and Golf programming.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: New York City, New York, USA
- Year of launch: 2010
- Number of young people supported each year: 4,100
- Age group: 6 – 17 years old
DESCRIPTION
CityParks Tennis and CityParks Golf provide free sports play, coaching, and competition opportunities for low-income children living in New York City’s most under-resourced communities. Activities are held in local public parks. Offered free-of-charge and with all equipment provided, our programs break down barriers to participation and help children find a sport they can play for life. Progressive challenges include beginner, intermediate, and advance instruction, plus internship and career opportunities, to provide ongoing growth opportunities for dedicated children.
SOS Children Villages
Established in 1987, SOS Children’s Villages Vietnam is a childcare organization operating in 17 provinces of Viet Nam currently providing 4883 children deprived of parental care or at risk of losing this care with a loving and caring environment of a family to grow and become self-reliant and successful citizens of society. It is part of a global federation that operates in 138 countries providing orphaned, abandoned children in difficult circumstances with care, nurture and support.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Project name: Strengthening vulnerable families to prevent breakup, separation and abandonment of children in Thai Binh province
- Location: Thai Binh, Vietnam
- Year of launch: 2022
- Number of people supported each year: 320 (200 children and 120 adults)
DESCRIPTION
Overall Project objective: To ensure vulnerable children remain with their family of origin and receive quality care, protection and education.
Specific objectives
(i) Reducing the risk of child abandonment in vulnerable families
(ii) Increasing the self-reliance of vulnerable families enabling them to cope with social and economic issues in 7 districts of Thai Binh province, Vietnam.
Saigon Children
Founded in UK in 1992, Saigon Children’s Charity help disadvantaged children get an education and a fairer start in life. Saigonchildren works exclusively across the whole of Vietnam to overcome barriers to education for children, including poverty, geography, knowledge and disability.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT
- Location: Dong Nai province – Vietnam
- Year of launch: 2022
- Number of direct beneficiaries: 682 young people and 400 parents, teachers
DESCRIPTION
In the 2023, the project will:
- Provide scholarships to 275 underprivileged students of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Training levels in the school year 2022-2023 and 50 bicycles to ones in need
- Rebuild the toilet block for the Nguyen Ba Ngoc primary school to provide safe, comfortable hygiene facility to an average of 195 students per school year
- Provide soft skill and vocational training for 12 students with hearing loss at a special school
- Raise awareness and understanding about autism and early intervention for children with autism through training for 400 kindergarten parents, teachers and screening for 200 children
