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2SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, AN ECO-CITIZEN COMPANY
Highlights of 2014 for the Schneider Electric Foundation
December -
Access to Energy
Training Signing
of agreement,
Algerian-French
excellence center
October - Commitment
First Communities days,
employees mobilization campaign
September - Sustainable development
Inauguration of the Refuge du Goûter
July - Fuel poverty
Habitat for all
at the Solar Decathlon
January - Commitment
Finalisation of mobilization
campaign for Typhoon
Haiyan - Philippines
May - Commitment
300 missions with Schneider
Electric Teachers
June - Access to Energy Training
50 000 people trained
March - Access to Energy
Training Signing of agreement,
excellence center in India
Initiatives in North America
Education: skill development of unemployed youth dropped out
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of school and college; scholarship of meritorious students from
American culture places a lot of importance on community underprivileged sections of society; education of school children
involvement. Schneider Electric North America has the following on energy saving and conservation of the environment;
commitments: Entrepreneurship: support of young people, trained by
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one of the flagship programs of the Schneider Electric
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Schneider Electric Access to energy program, to create their
Foundation North America is the «matching gift program», own business;
through which the company matches employee donations to the Employment: support of young people, trained by Schneider
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organizations of their choice. In 2014, the North America Electric Access to energy program, to get a job;
Foundation provided USD4 million of funding to various Electrification: electrification of underprivileged households in
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charitable and community organizations, employee match and remote areas;
employee giving programs; Emergency support: restoration of electrical network after
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due to the volunteer efforts of thousands of North American
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natural disasters.
employees, significant contributions were made to Habitat for Schneider Electric India Foundation works in partnership with more
Humanity, the American Heart Association, the American than 25NGOs and with the involvement of Schneider Electric
Cancer Society, the American Red Cross and to the ALS employees and Schneider Electric business partners.
Association («Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis» Association); the
Schneider Electric North American Foundation has long term Achievement of Schneider Electric India Foundation from 2009 to
partnerships with many of these organizations due to their end of 2014:
importance in the communities in which Schneider Electric has a 209 electrician training centers across 21 states in India;
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presence.
34,716 unemployed youth trained (100,000 + men months of
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Initiatives in India
training);
75 scholarships;
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Schneider Electric India is committed to promote development for 81 Schneider Electric teacher’s volunteering missions;
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underprivileged people through various projects. Schneider Electric 17,235 school children enrolled for «Conserve My Planet»
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India has created a Foundation in 2008 to execute all Corporate program.
Social Responsibility activities in the country. Schneider Electric These initiatives are consolidated at the level of the Schneider
India Foundation is working in the following focus areas: Electric Foundation and are taken into account in the different
reports and indicators.
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