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The Trafigura Foundation
Launched in November 2007, the Trafigura Foundation was
inspired by a desire to consolidate the charitable and
community-oriented actions of Trafigura employees
around the world and to encourage, support and develop these
activities. Over 4 million US dollars have been dedicated to
philanthropic and charitable activities in 2008, on all
continents.
Reflecting the Trafigura Group’s philosophy to give individuals
the opportunity to develop and reach their full potential, the
Trafigura Foundation aims at making a real difference by creating
genuine, positive and lasting changes in the societies, communities
and projects it supports.
The Environment and Education are two of our mainstream fields
of action, but our initiatives also encompass the themes of Health
and Disability, Rural Development, Social Inclusion, and Social
Entrepreneurship.When needed in the countries where the Group
operates, we also get involved in Emergency Relief and
Post-Disaster Recovery activities.
Because the special link to the Group’s people is key to our
philanthropic activities, the Foundation develops its projects in
close cooperation with the Charity Committees in our
main offices. These committees are being set up by the employees
themselves, all volunteering to support local charities and
initiatives.
Some recent examples of projects we have been supporting this
year:
- Contributing to the narrowing of the educational gap in the
low-income communities in United States, through a long-term
multiregional partnership with Teach For America.
- In DRC, Trafigura has contributed directly over US$200,000 for
the rehabilitation of a primary and secondary school in the city of
Lubumbashi.
- Contributing to the eradication of cataract-blindness in
Sub-Saharian Africa (partnership with VIDIS Association,
France).
- Supporting hospice care for children with life-limiting
illnesses in England (partnership with Demelza, United
Kingdom).
- Through a local foundation established and inspired by
Trafigura’s mining entities in Peru, over US$850,000 have been
dedicated for development in the rural and Andean communities of
the country.
- Synergizing environmental awareness, education and social
inclusion by training young disabled people, mostly suffering from
Down syndrome, to become educators in the Buenos Aires schools
(partnership with “Cascos Verdes”, Argentina).
- Supporting the integration of uprooted migrant women in the
Geneva community (partnership with Camarada, Switzerland).
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