14 / GRUNDFOS SUSTAINABILITY PROGRESS REPORT 2015 Community At Grundfos, we wish to improve our positive impact on the communities in which we operate. For this reason, many of our companies support their local communities. At Grundfos South Africa for instance, we have our own charity organisation called SACRED (South African Children’s Resources for Education and Development). SACRED provides basic education needs to unprivileged schools in rural areas. Every year, Grundfos South Africa pays school allowances to almost 100 children so that they can pay school fees, and buy uniforms and stationery. Other projects under SACRED are vegetable gardens for feeding programmes, mobile libraries for schools that do not have libraries, a mobile science lab that tours schools every week for extra science lessons, internet access and mobile kitchens. Another example is Grundfos in China, who supports vulnerable children, a school for deaf and blind children, provides scholarships, and runs smaller activities such as giving Christmas presents to poor children. As a global organisation, we also have a responsibility to help with current crises. This has led to the Grundfos Group donating EUR 70,000 in 2015, to help ease the current refugee situation in Syria and Afghanistan. We involve our employees Some local Grundfos companies encourage their employees to donate to local charity, either directly to NGO partners or through fundraising projects like golf days, auctions, or staff pledges. Grundfos India held an event from 27 July to 5 August across all its offices in the country, aimed at inspiring employees to donate to local NGOs, with either cash or other material needed by the NGO. This resulted in employees from Grundfos India donating fans, stationery, clothes, bedsheets, toiletries, fruit and eatables for the benefit of each NGO. In France, Grundfos collaborates with the NGO Hydraulique Sans Frontières on a project in Chad, Africa. The project involves setting up a training center for contractors, so they are able to maintain water systems correctly and systematically. Because of the risk of working in Chad due to civil conflicts, the training is presently being implemented at a distance, and for that
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