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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.acted.org/en/">Acted</a>'s action </h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As the leading French NGO for international solidarity, Acted works "at the last mile of humanity" to support more than 27 million beneficiaries through over 600 projects in emergency response, rehabilitation, and development. More than 8,000 employees develop and implement programs aimed at the most vulnerable people. These programs cover a range of topics such as emergency response plans, sustainable access to essential needs and services (food security, access to water, hygiene and sanitation, vocational training and education, etc.), strengthening governance, and environmental protection in line with <a href="https://www.acted.org/en/">A</a>cted's new Green Strategy (support for sustainable agriculture, water stress management, ecosystem regeneration, etc.). These projects align with the 3 ZERO strategy: "Zero exclusion, Zero carbon, Zero poverty," in 43 countries, including 15 in common with the subsidiaries of SOMFY Group.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">SOMFY Foundation’s object</h2>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Contributes to building a better world for future generations</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Supports projects that enable everyone to have access to healthy and sustainable living environments, with respect for individuals and the environment</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Supports access to emergency shelter for populations living in regions of the world affected by natural disasters or conflicts.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Reminder of the international program "A house is a home"</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SOMFY Foundation's international engagement program "A House is A Home" began in January 2014. It allows subsidiaries to identify, together with SOMFY Foundation, a project that supports decent housing for all, to which they will jointly provide financial support, often complemented by Group employees' skills sponsorship.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">What have we already done together ?</h2>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">1st meeting with <a href="https://www.acted.org/en/">Acted </a>on a partenership launch webinar in April 2023</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Interview with Camille Fourre, Strategy France Manager for SOMFY Foundation’s<a href="https://www.fondation-somfy.com/en-en/news/2023-06-30-an-ngo-in-the-spotlight-meeting-with-camille-fourre-head-of-strategy-france-acted"> “an NGO in the spotlight”</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">1st solidarity challenge in November 2023
<ul>
<li>How to increase notoriety of Acted amongst French population ? and How to create new innovative fundraising levers ?</li>
<li>All the ideas were presented to Acted’s managers.</li>
<li>Many things are already done but can still be improved</li>
<li>Some ideas could become projects, for example : do a partnership with the museums, with lotteries to have a little part of the price going to Acted, organize a marathon rising money for Acted , do a partnership with water bottle/reusable bottle, organize within a company “skills challenge” to realize some communication tools , do a Zero carbon challenge in company to raise awareness on Zero Carbone and Acted.</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Two collaborations around emergency situations in Turkey and Morocco</h2>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Emergency support for the populations affected by the earthquakes in Turkey in February 2023 by the subsidiary and SOMFY Foundation to provide support to 200 households through monetary aid, food, and hygiene items so they can meet their basic needs.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Emergency support for vulnerable populations affected by the earthquake in Morocco in September 2023, by the subsidiary and SOMFY Foundation to provide 30 households (approximately 150 people) with kits to complement and improve existing emergency shelters.</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">So, what will be next ?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To continue raising awareness of the NGO among our colleagues in subsidiaries, <a href="https://www.acted.org/en/">A</a>cted is proposing a new challenge for international employees to undertake on the coming 28th of November. Acted will benefit from the help of SOMFY employees, wherever they are in the Group, to respond to the following challenge (question): <em>How to develop successful new partnerships with international companies with the goal of diversifying international funding sources ?</em></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>New collaboration opportunities could emerge in 2025. We will continue to propose new projects to our colleagues in SOMFY subsidiaries.</strong></div>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Reminder of SOMFY Foundation’s object</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SOMFY Foundation contributes to the construction of a better world for future generations and supports projects that enable everyone to have access to healthy and sustainable living spaces, with respect for people and the environment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SOMFY Foundation also supports access to emergency housing for populations living in regions of the world affected by natural disasters or conflicts.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">What is SOMFY Foundation’s international program ?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SOMFY Corporate Foundation's International Commitment Program "A House is A Home" began in January 2014, with a focus on its actions in France and Brazil. It allows subsidiaries to identify, together with SOMFY Foundation, a project promoting decent housing for the most disadvantaged, to which they will jointly provide financial support, often complemented by the Group employees' skill-based sponsorship.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">SOMFY Foundation’s international partners</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SOMFY Foundation works with numerous partners around the world and currently prioritizes two major actors to facilitate the selection of projects : <a href="https://www.habitat.org/">Habitat for Humanity</a> & <a href="https://www.acted.org/en/">Acted.</a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.habitat.org/">Habitat for Humanity</a> - SOMFY Foundation’s historical partner</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Habitat for Humanity is a leading international NGO and it is present in more than 70 countries across five continents. Since 1976, Habitat has helped more than 59 million people build or improve the place they call home.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.habitat.org/">Habitat for Humanity</a> builds strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter, across various aeras of activity :</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">New housing, rehabilitation, repairs, construction</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Health, water and sanitation</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Housing microfinance, financial education</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Renewable energies, energy efficiency and education, sustainable development</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Habitat for Humanity’s strategy, is to impact the community, the sector, and society by improving housing conditions, access to housing, and actions aimed at ending poverty in the housing sector.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Through our partnership, SOMFY local subsidiaries have already helped 490 people to live in better homes as well as 750 people with community projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Over 100 SOMFY employees have offered their help as volunteers to support families in need.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">10 Years of an impactufil partnership</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In 2014, SOMFY Foundation and <a href="https://www.habitat.org/">Habitat for Humanity</a> embarked on a journey with a single pilot project in Brazil, aiming to improve housing conditions for vulnerable communities. Ten years later, that partnership has blossomed into a global collaboration, spanning over 15 countries and impacting hundreds of families. This decade of cooperation reflects our shared commitment to reducing poor housing conditions and creating safe, healthy living environments for people in need of decent housing.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Why We Partner Together </h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At the heart of this partnership lies a mutual vision: providing decent housing for everyone. Poor housing conditions are a global issue, and SOMFY Foundation, alongside with its subsidiaries, has always recognized the urgent need for social responsibility in addressing these challenges. Our partnership with Habitat for Humanity allows us to go beyond borders, supporting communities in the countries where SOMFY operates to foster safer and more dignified lives for all.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Our approach combines financial support with human engagement, as SOMFY employees across the world have rolled up their sleeves, volunteering their time and expertise to support construction and renovation projects. This hands-on involvement reinforces SOMFY’s core values of solidarity and social commitment.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Global Impact: Highlights of Our Joint Projects</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The partnership between SOMFY Foundation and <a href="https://www.habitat.org/">Habitat for Humanity</a> has made an indelible impact across the globe. What started with a pilot project in the favelas of Brazil has since expanded into a wide variety of initiatives in Australia, Lebanon, Egypt, Poland, China, and more.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Brazil: </strong>In São Paulo’s Heliopolis favela, our partnership improved the homes of over 40 low-income women-headed households. From installing ceramic floors and windows to providing water tanks during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have consistently supported vulnerable communities here since 2014.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Australia: </strong>SOMFY teams worked on renovation projects supporting women and children escaping domestic violence. These efforts helped refurbish safe shelters and improve living conditions for homeless families, making a difference for communities in Sydney. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Lebanon: </strong>Our collaboration helped tackle housing for refugees in Beirut, improving living conditions for 150 families, including the installation of vital infrastructure like water tanks and secure stairwells for vulnerable households.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Poland: </strong>In 2018, SOMFY volunteers contributed to building safer homes for two large families living in extreme poverty, transforming their cramped, inadequate living spaces into secure and healthy homes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>United States: </strong>In New Jersey, SOMFY teams helped construct four new homes and provided pro-bono marketing and IT services to local Habitat affiliates. This project enhanced living standards for families in the local community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>China: </strong>In Shanghai, SOMFY helped elderly, low-income residents by renovating their homes with safer bathrooms, rewiring, and installing safety features like handlebars, improving the quality of life for two families.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Egypt:</strong> In Upper Egypt, we rebuilt homes for 40 households affected by floods and provided essential infrastructure, ensuring access to safe housing and hygiene facilities for over 200 people.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Bulgaria: </strong>SOMFY and Habitat for Humanity partnered together to decrease the energy poverty people face in everyday lives and contribute to residential energy efficiency program to improve living conditions for families and ensuring they have access to a safe and healthy environment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Romania: </strong>This project focused on providing safer housing for low-income families by improving structural integrity and adding essential facilities, helping families live in better, more secure homes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Côte d'Ivoire:</strong> Our collaboration helped support young men and women to develop a pig farm in order to increase their revenue, thus improving their living conditions. We also provided the community with communal biogas latrines to promote clean energy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Haiti: </strong>Following the devastating earthquake in 2021, SOMFY Foundation and Habitat for Humanity contributed to rebuilding homes and strengthening local infrastructure, supporting people in their recovery efforts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hong Kong and Thailand: </strong>In Hong Kong and Thailand, SOMFY employees dedicated their time and expertise to the construction and renovation of homes. Their efforts focused on improving living conditions for low-income families ensuring that communities had access to safe and secure housing. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ukraine: </strong>In Ukraine, we renovated and insulated basements in apartment buildings to improve energy efficiency and reduce heating costs. These upgrades help families stay warmer and save on energy bills. Additionally, the basements are being adapted to serve as safe shelters in case of attacks, providing crucial protection for the community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SOMFY Foundation also supported organisation of advocacy housing events organised by Habitat for Humanity called Global Housing Forum in all four world regions – Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Africa.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Looking Ahead: Impacting Lives for Another Decade</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Over the past ten years, SOMFY Foundation and <a href="https://www.habitat.org/">Habitat for Humanity</a> have helped transform the lives of numerous individuals and families, providing them with safer, healthier homes and brighter futures. This partnership has been driven by a shared belief in empowering people to live with dignity and security.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As we celebrate this milestone, we look forward to another decade of collaboration, continuing our work to create sustainable, meaningful change in communities around the world. Together, we can build more homes, improve more lives, and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live in safe, decent housing.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Here’s to the next ten years of impactful partnership!</strong></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">2023 in figures</h2>
<p>A stronger commitment from our employees throughout SOMFY Group made possible, among other things, thanks to the structuring of the Foundation's operational team, with a role dedicated to the search for missions with our partner associations in order to be able to offer more solidarity missions to employees.</p>
<p><strong>In France </strong><br />
119 missions carried out<br />
568 solidarity days carried out <br />
520 employees involved <br />
34 associations supported</p>
<p><strong>Internationally </strong><br />
8 projects completed<br />
120 solidarity days carried out<br />
136 employees involved </p>
<p>In total, 127 solidarity missions were carried out within the Group, involving 656 employees around the world, for a total of 688 days of solidarity. </p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">International focus</h2>
<h3>A new partner for the SOMFY Foundation: ACTED</h3>
<p><br />
In 2023, the SOMFY Foundation continued its international mobilisation by welcoming a new partner to expand its international offering as part of the ‘A house is a home’ programme.</p>
<p>ACTED has joined the SOMFY Foundation as an international partner and completes the partnership that has existed since 2014 with HABITAT FOR HUMANITY and its ‘housing’ dimension with its ‘humanitarian and environmental’ dimension illustrated in its ‘Zero Exclusion, Zero Carbon, Zero Poverty’ strategy.</p>
<p>This new partnership has already enriched and developed proposals for collaboration with the SOMFY Foundation and Group subsidiaries.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">An ongoing commitment to international solidarity</h3>
<p>Numerous initiatives have been undertaken by our employees in subsidiaries:</p>
<ul>
<li>solidarity projects to renovate, paint and clean houses and shelters for people in very precarious situations</li>
<li>houses have been equipped to facilitate the mobility of people with disabilities</li>
<li>equipment donations</li>
<li>collections and emergency aid</li>
<li>tree planting and environmental initiatives</li>
<li>English and sports lessons for remote schools in big cities</li>
<li>get-togethers with the elderly to break the cycle of loneliness</li>
<li>outreach work with homeless people</li>
<li>collective intelligence workshops for the SOMFY Foundation's 2 partners Acted and Habitat for Humanity</li>
<li>Emergency aid in the form of financial sponsorship was also provided to Turkey and Morocco.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Resumption of the solidarity leave commitment format with Planète Urgence</h2>
<p>SOMFY Foundation wanted to diversify the ways in which its employees could get involved and affirm its commitment to international action by rethinking the concept of solidarity leave. In 2019, 4 departures had been organised, but unfortunately the partnership with the Planète Urgence association was interrupted due to the Covid-19 crisis.</p>
<p>In May, employees interested in this format took part in a webinar presenting solidarity leave, run jointly by SOMFY Foundation and Planète Urgence. The process and stages were covered during this presentation. People wishing to get involved had one month to submit their application to the Foundation for a mission of their choice, published on Planète Urgence website. Internally, the Human Resources Managers and SOMFY Foundation conducted interviews to assess the candidates' motivations and objectives for this solidarity mission. Planète Urgence and the local associations then selected the volunteers.</p>
<p>Three people were therefore selected to go on solidarity missions. One of them went to Togo for a training mission on the objectives of sustainable development, another went to Cameroon for training in Word/Excel and PowerPoint, and the third went to Cambodia to develop the association's communication strategy.</p>
<p>These departures were prepared in collaboration with Planète Urgence. A return process A return process including an interview with the Human Resources Manager was put in place by SOMFY Foundation, as well as a time to exchange experiences with the volunteers. </p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">New associations have become partners of SOMFY Foundation in 2023</h2>
<p>On the strength of its expertise in poor housing and its desire to align itself with the strategic pillars of SOMFY Group, SOMFY Foundation is broadening its corporate purpose in 2021 to add two new dimensions to its actions in favor of decent housing:</p>
<ul>
<li>an environmental dimension through 2 axes: reducing the energy footprint of existing buildings and preserving the living environment</li>
<li>combating inequality of opportunity</li>
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<p>In November 2022, the first reforestation of the Magland forest was carried out with the Office National des Forêts. The seeds sown by this first environmental action bore fruit, enabling 153 employees in 2023 to get involved in 21 environmental missions in partnership with 11 new associations: France Nature Environnement, the Ligue de Protection des Oiseaux, the Centre Permanent et d'Initiative à l'Environnement du Léman, Ecotrivelo, Alvéole, Hopika, Apollon 74, Champ d'action (Toulouse), Nettoyons la nature (Gray) and ONF.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>"What a great experience, thank you for this opportunity! Great association, we were made very welcome, in a dream setting under the sun’ ’It was a great day volunteering!’ Mission for Ecotrivelo<br />
‘It was very rewarding and the ALVEOLE team is really nice! Patrice, our contact, gave us a good explanation of his work in the association. Thanks to him, I rediscovered certain plants and I have to say that you grow from this experience" Mission for Alvéole</em></p>
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<p>A wide range of projects, including setting up composting sites and shared gardens, weeding out invasive plants, collecting litter and cigarette butts, harvesting wildflower seeds, and maintaining dry meadows and plots of land in Magland, have made a tangible contribution to preserving the environment.</p>
<p>New partnerships have also been set up to promote employment and combat inequality of opportunity.</p>
<p>In addition to our long-standing partnership with the Apprentis d'Auteuil, which supports young people in difficulty by welcoming them, accompanying them and training them to become fulfilled adults despite their difficulties, two new associations have joined the SOMFY Foundation in its action:</p>
<p>- Ma Chance moi aussi, whose aim is to give all children the same chances of success, particularly in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, by highlighting their potential.</p>
<p>- Energie Jeunes, which works with pupils in CM2 and collèges to help them develop the motivation to learn, maintain their interest and curiosity, so that they are more receptive to learning and can say no to dropping out of school.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Focus Solidarity Challenges 8th edition</h2>
<p>Once again this year, SOMFY employees have been actively involved with associations, taking part in the collective intelligence workshops organised by the SOMFY Foundation.</p>
<p>Did you know?</p>
<p>A challenge takes the form of a 3-hour workshop, bringing together the association, the leadership team and the volunteers.</p>
<p>The challenge attempts to respond to an issue raised by an association, by looking at it from a different angle that complements that of the associative world, that of the company.</p>
<p>Volunteers can come from all walks of life at SOMFY</p>
<p>To try and find an answer to the problem, 4 questions are put to the employees to get them thinking and then encourage the emergence of ideas and sharing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This year :</p>
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8 associations, including 2 international ones, came to meet the volunteers<br />
5 challenges took place face-to-face and 3 remotely<br />
16 facilitators and time keepers agreed to facilitate the workshops<br />
2 associations were selected for each of the Foundation's areas of work<br />
‘Dignified housing and the fight against precariousness: L'entraide internationale des scouts de cluses, Habitat et Humanisme<br />
‘Preserving the environment": Hopika, Ecotrivelo<br />
‘Combating inequality of opportunity": Energie Jeunes, Apprentis d'Auteuil<br />
‘International programme - A house is a home: Habitat for Humanity, Acted<br />
85 employee volunteers, 16 of them international, took part on a single day.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">The issues at stake were studied:</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">‘How can we successfully complete the project to overhaul the websites of the Apprentis d'Auteuil Foundation establishments?<br />
‘How can we recruit new volunteers in Haute-Savoie for Energie Jeunes and retain them?<br />
‘How can we provide recommendations on developing a new sales offer for Ecotrivelo?<br />
‘How can Hopika provide recommendations on its service offering for companies and their employees?<br />
‘How can Entraide Internationale des Scouts de Cluses communicate effectively with its various target audiences about the charity's project?<br />
‘How can Habitat et Humanisme explore new avenues of research to find new solidarity owners?<br />
‘How can we help Habitat for Humanity improve its reputation in Europe?<br />
‘How can we help Acted raise public awareness and diversify its sources of funding?</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">It was a day rich in emotion, sharing and the search for solutions, which the teams will be able to revisit in May during the retrospective of the solidarity challenges. This get-together gives the participating associations a chance to tell their stories and set out the ideas implemented at the suggestion of the employees, and enables the employees to stay in touch with the association they have chosen to support.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">And what about 2024?</h2>
<p>In 2024, for the first time in its history, the SOMFY Foundation will work on measuring its impact on its partner associations.</p>
<p>The SOMFY Foundation acts for the common good and the general interest and involves its employees in this dynamic.</p>
<p>A survey was offered to SOMFY employees during the last quarter, and 119 of them responded. The aim of the survey was to gain a better understanding of their relationship with skills sponsorship and solidarity, and also to gain a better understanding of their expectations of the Foundation and the nature of their commitment.<br />
An initial workshop on the theme of ‘evaluating our partnership and collaboration’ was organised at the end of the year with a representative panel of our partner associations, 12 in all, some of them long-standing and others new. This workshop was the first step in measuring our impact. The initiative will be continued with individual interviews with each participating association to measure our impact in greater detail.</p>
<p>The SOMFY Foundation's ultimate goal is to measure our impact annually, both internally among SOMFY employees and externally among our partners. In this way, the SOMFY Foundation will be able to take the pulse of its stakeholders once a year on what has worked well and assess our growth opportunities together.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">MERCI ! </h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This new year of solidarity with associations and employees has enabled the Foundation to affirm its message: Everyone, at their own level, everywhere in the world, can act and have a positive impact on the planet, and contribute through their actions to making the world a better place.</p>
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2023 has been an incredible year! The SOMFY Foundation would like to sincerely and warmly thank all SOMFY Group employees around the world for their commitment and the concrete actions taken to build a better world for future generations.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">What is a solidarity challenge?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It's SOMFY Foundation's event format.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A challenge takes the form of a 3-hour workshop, bringing together the NGO, the facilitation team (a facilitator and a SOMFY time keeper) and the volunteers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The challenge aims to respond to an issue raised by an NGO, by seeking a different perspective, complementary to that of the associative world, that of the company.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SOMFY employees come from all walks of life, and use their creative and collective energy to provide the NGOs with as many ideas as possible.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">How is SOMFY Foundation preparing for this event?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It's a long-term project, which requires a lot of anticipation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Every year, the SOMFY Foundation offers its partner NGOs the chance to experience collective intelligence, by taking part to the solidarity challenges, starting in June. This format is mainly proposed to new NGOs that have not yet had this experience, and also to NGOs with older partnerships that have a problem they would like volunteers to work on.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Once they have given their agreement, the NGOs have a fairly substantial period of work with Adrien and Rose from <a href="https://www.probonolab.org/fr/">ProbonoLab</a>, a SOMFY Foundation partner and skills sponsorship specialist, between July and September. A complete diagnosis is made with the association, enabling the problem to emerge that will be proposed during the challenges.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SOMFY Foundation then takes over from the beginning of October until the November challenges, and supports the NGOs from start to finish by offering several workshops: a meeting with employees, a workshop on solidarity challenges methodology, a workshop on "efficient presentation" and a final workshop on "feedback".</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At the same time, SOMFY Foundation is looking for volunteers to run the challenges, and for volunteers to take part to the challenges, even up to the day before the solidarity challenges.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Why is this a challenge? And why is there a timekeeper in the facilitation team?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Because employees and NGOs only have 3 hours to get to know each other, make alliances, work together and come up with the best ideas. And time flies. Hence the importance of the timekeeper's presence. This is a key role. It's the timekeeper who keeps track of the time of each sequence, informs the group and reframes any drift. He or she completely relieves the moderator of time management, so that participants can concentrate solely on the content.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Who is present this year?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This year, 6 "French" NGOs and 2 "international" NGOs are pleased to come and meet us. SOMFY Foundation has chosen to have 2 NGOs representing each of its fields of action:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Poor housing and social ties: Habitat et Humaine and Entraide Internationale des Scouts de Cluses</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Environment: Hopika and Ecotrivelo</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Equal opportunities: Apprentis d'Auteuil and Energie Jeunes</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">International "A house is a home" program: <a href="https://www.habitat.org/emea">Habitat for Humanity</a> and <a href="https://www.acted.org/fr/">Acted</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">How many employees will be involved?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In all, more than 80 employees will be giving their time and ideas to the associations on the same day. The energy generated by this mobilization in record time is impressive.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">What happens next?</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The NGOs will have time after the Solidarity Challenges to review all the ideas contributed by the employees. They leave with all the materials they need to take them back and present them to their salaried and/or volunteer colleagues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A get-together is organized every year in June. The main idea is to get together, catch up and see how the associations are getting on. Of course, they also talk about what they've been able to put in place following the challenges.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>To be continued in 2024...</strong></p>
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