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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Trafigura Foundation
Annual Review 2010
Trafigura
Foundation Annual Review 2009
Trafigura Foundation aims at making a real difference by creating
genuine, positive and lasting changes