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The comfort and convenience of our passengers is always paramount at KLM. Our work as a service organisation, carrying people around the world, makes us deeply aware of the social responsibilities of a global company. One cannot touch so many destinations without being moved by the circumstances of the people living there, and the need to support organisations dedicated to assisting the less privileged in world society. With KLM’s highly developed communications infrastructure, we are in a position to provide a highly effective platform supporting these charitable organisations aiming to improve the position of less privileged children in our society. We call this service AirCares.
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Wings of Support is a private initiative, originated by KLM and Martinair employees. The organisation – which is run by 80 volunteers – supports children who are in need of proper housing and education in KLM and Martinair destinations around the world. The goal of Wings of Support is to realise sustainable improvements in the living conditions of these children, within their own environment. Since its formation in 1998, Wings of Support has supported over 300 projects worldwide. We would like to draw your attention to a Wings of Support project in Suriname. The Faya Lobi Kresj was built in 1983 and is located in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. It offers day care for 50 babies and children, up to the age of eight. These children often come from broken, one-parent families and grow up in a socially weak environment. The devoted, motivated staff of Faya Lobi Kresj provides these children with a caring environment. After 25 years of intensive use, the building that houses the Faya Lobi Kresj is in urgent need of renovation.. Wings of Support feels it is important to offer these children clean, safe and habitable surroundings. They intend to begin the renovation project this year.We sincerely hope you will help the children of the Faya Lobi Kresj by donating your Flying Blue Miles . | Wings of Support |
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Working together with Amsterdam’s VU (Vrije Universiteit) medical centre, Kenya Airways and KLM Health Services, KLM AirCares supports a charitable cause called Doctor 2 Doctor. The programme consists of pediatric specialists from the VU medical centre who train pediatrics on a regular basis in an effort to improve child health care in Kenya. The VU medical centres doctors and ancillary medical staff are highly trained and avail themselves of the latest knowledge in pediatric medicine – knowledge which is sorely needed in developing nations and can do much to help children with problems such as serious burns or congenital birth defects without the need for the latest equipment or facilities. Doctor 2 Doctor is an expensive programme and can only function well if you help. You can donate both money and Flying Blue Miles through www.aircares.nl. | http://www.vumc.nl/ |
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Close the Gap, founded in 2003, is a Belgian nonprofit organisation working to shorten the distance between developed and developing nations in terms of computer hardware and know-how. They do this by collecting used computers from large companies and making them usable in developing nations around the world. With the help of these computers, people in poorer countries can gain access to all the information available on the Internet and have the ability to communicate digitally. The computers are used chiefly for education. KLM is one company that donates computers to Close the Gap. However, computers alone are not enough. A great deal must be done to get all this equipment working and then move it to its final destination. That is where you come in. | http://www.close-the-gap.org |
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KLM celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. One of the ways we are marking the occasion is by raising money for a good cause.
Cycling Blue for Kenya is a project that revolves around the bicycle. The project consists of setting up a cycle repair shop, training 75 Kenyans to become bicycle repairers, and financing the supply of bicycles for children who live more than 10 kilometres from their schools. All this will be achieved using a system of microcredit financing. 180 bicycles Many children in Kenya have to walk more than 10 kilometres to school. This means they arrive exhausted and, at home, have little time to help with the housework. Consequently, many children, young girls in particular, leave school early. The aim of this project is to reduce the number of school drop-outs by giving 180 children bicycles by means of microcredit financing. This will have a positive effect on the children’s school results and eventually improve the situation of their entire family. Cycle repairs A cycle repair shop is being set up, along with a programme to train 75 Kenyans a year in bicycle maintenance. The scheme is also financed through microcredit, enabling the trainees to finance their own training. Another 15 to 30 people will be given the opportunity to start their own businesses, also by means of microcredit, for which they will need a bicycle. What can you do? KLM is working with the Cycling Out of Poverty Foundation to develop this project. Cycling Out of Poverty will run the project, together with their Kenyan partner Uvumbuzi. Why choose Cycling Blue for Kenya? The typically Dutch focus on the bicycle appealed to KLM. Moreover, this project will contribute to the Millennium Goal of getting every child in the world into primary education. So why not support us with a financial contribution, or donate your Flying Blue Miles? |
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Students of the Delft University of Technology, together with the Dutch foundation and NGO KidsRights, have started a unique flip-flop factory in the slums of Durban, South Africa. With this initiative, the students have not only created employment for the area’s poorest inhabitants, but simultaneously created a stylish, sustainable designer slipper… made from car tyres. Vast quantities of car tyres are either dumped in South African landfills and environmentally sensitive areas, or simply burned – in both cases causing massive environmental problems. Shoe designer Jan Jansen from the Netherlands and students of the faculty of Industrial Design have got together to turn an ecological headache into funky footwear. The slippers’ colourful patterns and drawings were designed by orphans from the Durban slums, demonstrating their creativity and depicting their dream for a better world. All profits made by these ‘Ubuntu Plakkies’ will be ploughed straight back into KidsRights orphanage projects in South Africa. Flip-flop factory The main aim of the project is to create sustainable jobs in one of the most socially and economically neglected areas of South Africa. The scheme employs 70 people, who have no qualifications, and who are mostly HIV positive. After years of unemployment with no hope for the future, they can once again support themselves thanks to their work at the factory. Each employee can sustain ten other people in his or her community, so that children can go to school – meaning over 700 people benefit directly from this single initiative. The project lays great emphasis on safety, security, health, nutrition and sanitation. In the factory, meals and AIDS medication are supplied for the employees on a daily basis. Ubuntu & AirCares KLM AirCares gives its wholehearted support to this project, which complies with many of the Millennium Development Goals, including eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality and combating HIV/AIDS. The project also benefits a younger committed target group, fitting perfectly into the AirCares philosophy. |
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It was in July 1996 that Jolanda van den Berg moved permanently to Cuzco, Peru to start helping the street children there. In 1998, she opened her first Niños Hotel. The second hotel, that opened in 2002, has the same goal: to devote its entire profits to helping extremely neglected children by providing them with a meal, a hot shower, the services of doctors and dentists, sports lessons and homework assistance, as well as to support the rest of the foundation’s projects. Helping more than 600 children
The Niños Hotels and the foundation’s many donors make it possible to help more than 600 children every day by providing them with food, a hot shower and medical assistance. The foundation has also ensured that 12 children are now living as part of various adoptive families. The hotels and projects employ more than 60 Peruvians, thus providing more than 60 Peruvian families with an income. The Niños Children’s Restaurants and Sports Hall At least as important as the hot meal, the refreshing shower and the medical services is teaching these children step by step to improve their social behaviour. This is being achieved by giving the children their own private place at one of the Niños Children’s Restaurants where they are welcome to spend time six days a week. The children also receive sports lessons. Sports are often an outlet for these children and an opportunity for them to learn to work together and deal with rules. AirCares KLM also accepts its social responsibility in the destinations to which it flies. Because the goals of Niños Unidos Peruanos coincide with the UN Millennium Development Goals, KLM AirCares is supporting the Niños Unidos Peruanos Foundation this quarter. By doing so, we are promoting developments that make an ongoing contribution to improving the living conditions of children. Donating to this cause Help the Niños Unidos Peruanos Foundation by making a financial contribution and/or donating your Flying Blue Miles. Perhaps one day, you might even want to stay at one of the hotels or the hacienda in Peru and make your contribution this way. For more information: www.ninoshotel.com |
