VINCI Foundation NL supports 2 new projects

How? By investing human and financial resources to support organisations that pursue civic and social objectives. VINCI Foundation NL focuses on projects which promote access to the employment market or which work at improving society. Each year, the VINCI Foundation NL selects charitable projects which are submitted by the VINCI employees in the Netherlands. If you’d like to know more about the VINCI Foundation NL, check out the website.

In February, both foundations received a cheque for their projects.

Own means of transport for Empower

The Empower foundation is a non-profit organisation for the supervision of children, young people and adolescents suffering from an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and/or ADHD. The supervision process focuses on the development of self-sufficiency, independence and a healthy lifestyle. Through exercise and active collaboration, clients can overcome their fears, experience success and develop a positive self-image. Within a safe pedagogic basic climate, the positive self-image is applied to personal learning targets, such as social and civic competences, resilience and practical skills for the purpose of self-sufficiency.

Wilco Voulon of Empower: “Receiving supervision at a location where you feel at home, there lies our spearhead”.

The Empower foundation has been supported by the VINCI Foundation NL with the purchase of a 9-seater minibus, which will make the organisation less dependent on volunteers while also saving money. This will allow them to supervise more young people in a safe and sustainable manner.

Digital platform for Stichting Vier het leven

Many elderly people gradually lose contact with other people, with society, with life in general. Stichting Vier het leven is working to reconnect them. It removes thresholds which would otherwise keep the elderly from venturing outdoors, and therefore results in new meetings and friendships between people. The purpose is to make a positive contribution to limitation of loneliness and to prevent social isolation of the elderly in our society.

Annerieke Vonk of Stichting Vier het leven: ‘We ourselves began as volunteers by collecting three elderly people in our car, for theatre visits. We now supervise 18,000 elderly people on an annual basis, via more than 1500 volunteers in 120 local communities.’

Each volunteer maintains contact with three elderly people whom they supervise. These volunteers currently waste a great deal of time on administrative work. A digital platform will leave the volunteers more time for the actual contact. Last week, Stichting Vier het leven received the cheque needed to create the digital platform.