AirCares donations

Aircares website

Thanks to our expansive communication infrastructure, we are in the ideal position to work for the less fortunate in our society. We do this via AirCares.

How does it work? Well, it’s very simple: as a Flying Blue member, you can donate Award Miles to AirCares, which are then redeemed for cash by KLM and put to good use with charities. In this way, targeted help is given to specially selected aid organisations, which in turn do everything to improve the lives of less fortunate children in our society

Or visit our Aircares website 

Wings of Support

Wings of Support is a private initiative that was set up by KLM and Martinair employees. In countries to which KLM and Martinair fly, the organisation supports children in dire need of proper housing and education. The purpose of the Wings of Support organisation, which is made up of 80 volunteers, is to improve the living circumstances of these children within their own environment and in a sustainable way. Since its foundation in 1998, Wings of Support has supported more than 300 projects worldwide.

For more information: www.wingsofsupport.org

Doctor2Doctor

Doctor 2 Doctor is an initiative from the medical centre of the VU University Amsterdam, in collaboration with Kenya Airways and KLM Health Services. Paediatricians from the VU medical centre regularly provide training to Kenyan paediatricians in dealing with childhood illness in Kenya. The doctors and the supporting medical staff of the VU are highly trained and have the most up-to-date paediatric knowledge. This expertise is greatly needed in developing countries. Moreover, it has a real impact on the lives of children with, for example, serious burn injuries or birth defects. This expertise can also be adapted without the need for the most up-to-date equipment and facilities.

For more information: www.vumc.nl

Close the gap

Close the Gap is a Belgian non-profit organisation set up in 2003 to reduce the digital gulf between developed and developing countries. The organisation does this by collecting used computers from large companies and making them available for reuse in developing countries across the world. These computers help people in poorer countries to access information on the Internet and provide them with the opportunity to communicate via the Internet. The computers are primarily used for educational purposes.

For more information: www.close-the-gap.org

Cycling Blue for Kenya

The Cycling out of Poverty Foundation, which generally works locally with the Kenyan Uvumbuzi, has set up the Cycling Blue for Kenya project.
The project consists of creating apprenticeships for 75 Kenyans to become bicycle makers, setting up a workplace, and financing 180 bikes for children who live more than 10 km from school. This is all financed thanks to microcredits.
This project also contributes to the millennium target of ‘achieving universal primary education’: all children across the world must be able to attend and complete primary school education.

For more information: www.cyclingoutofpoverty.com

Kidsright

The Dutch foundation KidsRights has, with the help of students from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), set up a slipper factory in the slums of Durban, South Africa. This initiative has created a structural working opportunity for the impoverished inhabitants of the slums. Each employee can use their salary to support themselves and a further ten people in the direct surroundings. Children are able to return to school and so this initiative gives 700 people a secure chance for a better future. In the factory, in which the ‘Plakkies’ designer slippers are made from old car types, daily meals and anti-aids drugs are provided. All profits from the sale of Ubuntu Plakkies flow directly back into the projects of KidsRights for South African orphans.

For more information: www.kidsrights.nl

The Niños Unidos Peruanos Foundation

In 1998, Jolanda van den Berg opened the first Niños Hotel in Cusco, Peru. In 2002, the second hotel was opened with the same purpose in mind: the full profit from the hotels will be spent on helping over 600 extremely impoverished children. They are given meals, hot showers, access to doctors and dentists, sport lessons and help with their homework. Moreover, the hotels support other projects of the Niños Unidos Peruanos Foundation. The Niños Hotels and projects provide work for over 60 Peruvians, in turn providing an income for 60 Peruvian families.

For more information: www.ninoshotel.com