01 FRANCE Teaching Children to Limit Carbon Emissions 01 Teaching Children to Limit Carbon Emissions FRANCE 02 Raising Environmental Awareness among African Children Benin 02 Benin Raising Environmental Awareness among African Children 03 Trees for Amazonie Peru 03 Peru Trees for Amazonie Focus on the projects Building a better, sustainable world Teaching Children to Limit Carbon Emissions FRance: With the support of the Air France Foundation, the Léo Lagrange Federation is developing the Carbone Scol’ERE programme to introduce children and their families to good practices for the planet.The Air France Foundation has been a part of the Carbone Scol ‘ERE programme since 2020, an initiative that originated in Quebec that was then developed in France by the Léo Lagrange Federation. How does it work? This programme helps students learn how to change their behaviour to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, quantify the greenhouse gas emissions avoided and convert them into an Educational Carbon Credit. These credits are then sold to individuals or companies to offset their GHG emissions and finance educational projects. The support of the Air France Foundation will help us finance ten hours of workshops in twenty 4th and 5th grade classes in the Paris region. Students investigate climate change and greenhouse gases to understand the impact of their consumption choices. They are invited to identify responsible solutions and then get their families involved with eco-friendly challenges. The actions taken by families are quantified in terms of GHG emissions avoided and tracked on the Scol’ERE digital carbon platform before being converted into Educational Carbon Credits. SCROLL Raising Environmental Awareness among African Children Benin: With the Air France Foundation, the NGO Planète Urgence is equipping schools in Benin to teach students about environmental conservation. The NGO Planète Urgence was set up in 2000 to protect endangered forests and biodiversity, promote local community development and raise environmental awareness. In 2021, the NGO launched a new project to raise awareness for sustainable development issues among schoolchildren in Africa: Planète Education. Because the temperature in Africa is rising twice as fast as the global average and there is a significant loss of biodiversity on this continent, which is also subject to major demographic growth. The non-profit’s aim is to help children in Benin, Cameroon and Madagascar learn more about protecting the environment. To do this, Planète Urgence equips primary schools with educational tools and trains teachers. The Air France Foundation supported the first experiment in Benin in 2021 involving ten schools, and we renewed funding in 2022 with eight additional schools, training a total of 110 teachers. SCROLL SCROLL Other: Other environmental education projects supported by the Air France Foundation in 2022 Burkina Faso H2O Sans Frontières: environmental education programme for schools in seven rural communities that also updates infrastructures. (€30,000) Guinea National Council of Associations of Young Guineans in France (CNJGF): Solarsac, school bags with solar bulbs for students at rural schools. (€20,000) Senegal Empire des Enfants: Empire’s green classes to raise awareness for the environment and ecology in homeless children in Dakar. (€20,000) Village Pilote: water treatment project for the homeless children’s shelter. (€23,000) Colombia Filotopie. L’École des Jeunes Pousses: environmental education programme in schools (North region). (€15,000) India Terre des Hommes: promoting environmental educa-tion for children and young people in India. (€30,000) Madagascar Helpsimus (French Association to Save the Greater Bamboo Lemur): rebuilding Sahofika school (Centre region). (€20,000) France Les Idéateurs: a programme to raise awareness for entrepreneurship and ecology in schools. (€30,000) Watch the video Watch the video Trees for Amazonie Peru The Air France Foundation is strengthening its partnership with the non-profit organization Trees for Amazonie to educate Peruvian children on environmental issues and plant trees. This French non-profit organization is committed to fighting global warming and protecting the environment. To take concrete action, Amazonie, un arbre pour la vie set the goal of planting 32,000 trees in the Peruvian Amazon over six years, starting with the village of San Francisco near the town of Pucallpa, inhabited by the Shipibos Conibos (Ucayali region). The non-profit trains local children and teenagers in environmental issues. They are each allocated a specific area to plant. They must then care for the trees they planted. The Air France Foundation began funding this programme in 2020. After building a library and creating a greenhouse and vegetable garden, the 2022 project supported by the Foundation will construct a water supply for the greenhouse and vegetable garden and a recycling centre. More than 600 children will be trained in the importance of recycling and 2,800 trees will be planted by the end of 2023. SCROLL