The SUEZ Foundation in Algeria
Association Ateliers Sans Frontières
French-Algerian cooperation through two non-profit organizations "The Souk" (the people's market) and "Ateliers Sans Frontières" (Workshops Without Borders)
The objective of the program "United for Children's Health," supported by SUEZ Foundation since 2006, is to help Algiers children suffering from cancer and children with disabilities through sports and computer access programs.
"The Souk" is an Algerian non-profit organization of students that was created in 1995 to improve hospital conditions and the daily lives of children in Algiers. Its members number approximately 100, made up primarily of students at the Algiers School of Medicine.
The organization has two main functions. The first is to organize major stand alone events to make the hospital stays of children more pleasurable, and enliven the daily lives of children suffering social and moral hardship. The second is to provide entertainment for children in the pediatrics unit of the Pierre and Marie Curie Center at the Mustapha Pacha Hospital in Algiers. This unit was recently opened and enables children suffering from cancer to receive heavy dose treatment in an environment which the students try to make more pleasurable.
"Workshops Without Borders" is a French non-profit organization whose purpose is to favor social and professional integration of individuals suffering hardship. It salvages and makes good as new used equipment, such as computer and sports equipment, which it provides to other organizations to make computers and sports accessible to everyone.
Workshops Without Borders contributes computer and sports equipment resources to the “Souk” which that organization would not otherwise have, and thus participates in the education and personal growth of Algerian children. It creates computer rooms and multi-sports centers in hospitals, centers for disadvantaged children, orphanages, and schools for children with disabilities.
The Ouled Fayet Digital Solidarity Workshop
In 2007, SUEZ Foundation decided to support this Workshops Without Borders project which addresses the unemployment, social exclusion, and alienation of young people in difficulty in the community of Ouled Fayet. The project involves providing these youths jobs skills training in the information technologies and communication fields.
Association RIP (Resist Insist Persist)
Project Kabylia
RIP is a neighborhood non-profit association created to fight against all forms of discrimination, exclusion, and racism.
Since 2007, SUEZ Foundation has supported an RIP educational program in favor of the emancipation and independence of girls and young women in the village of Feraoune, Kabylia. The project is co-financed by the Elle Foundation.
