that help sick children were subsidised by our Humanitarian Support programme through partnership agreements 16 medical NGOs were provided for coordinating medical teams 755 flight vouchers had excess baggage fees waived for transporting medical equipment and emergency health supplies 7 partner nonprofits were donated by customers in 2023 600 million miles * were donated to the Foundation’s 7 partners 420 million miles SEE THE OTHER NGOs SEE THE OTHER NGOs *600 M in total offered to the 20 AF-KLM partner NGOs Other projects in the Humanitarian Supportprogramme VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL Pédiatres du Monde Aviation Sans Frontières Le Secours populaire français Action Contre la faim Institut du Cerveau Première Urgence Internationale Moto Action French-African Paediatric Oncology Group (GFAOP) French Red Cross Médecins du Monde ActionS de Solidarité Internationale (ASI) Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque AuditionSolidarité VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL VIEW IN DETAIL SCROLL SCROLL In 2023, Pédiatres du Monde conducted 22 humanitarian projects in six countries: Cambodia, Laos, Guinea, Benin, Morocco and Moldavia. At the same time, the organisation continued its four programmes in France, in Paris, Ivry-sur-Seine, Nantes and Lille. This is made possible by the commitment of over 180 child health professionals, including paediatricians, nurses, midwives, speech therapists and other experts dedicated to meeting the needs of the world’s most vulnerable children. Anne, a paediatrician in the Paris region, explains: “I went to work in Morocco and Laos. Over there, the medical staff have no medical resources and we have to adapt. But I admire what they can do for their patients with so little resources. For the work in Paris, I met migrant families living in appalling conditions, some of them on the streets with their children, including babies. With Pédiatres du Monde, we can provide them with access to healthcare that they don’t have.” Pédiatres du Monde On September 8, 2023, a violent earthquake struck Morocco, killing almost 2,500 people and leaving thousands more homeless. Secours populaire stepped in to support the victims, particularly in isolated villages, where aid is more difficult to deliver. Thousands of locals lost everything and were forced to sleep outdoors. The nonprofit provided collective tents and equipment to make them more comfortable. Clearing equipment were also provided, such as shovels, as those affected were desperate to stay in their homes and search through the rubble for personal belongings. This equipment, purchased locally, allowed us to meet the locals’ needs and support the local economy. There are the physical injuries, but also invisible trauma. Psychological support was required, particularly for the children, some of whom were orphaned. Secours populaire contacted psychologists from hospitals in Marrakesh to set up support teams in remote areas severely affected by the earthquake. Le Secours populaire français SCROLL The Institut du Cerveau is one of the world’s leading neurological clinical research institutes. Thanks to the partnership with the Air France Foundation over the last 14 years, scientists have been able to meet and collaborate with the best international experts. This cooperation has been essential in advancing research in neuroscience and medicine, contributing to new treatments for diseases of the nervous system. The Air France Foundation has played a crucial role in positioning the ICM as a world-class centre of excellence, ranking it among the top neurological clinical research institutes in the world. This alliance goes beyond research. The Air France Foundation is building the foundations of the next generation of neuroscience research in a shared quest for understanding and expanding the frontiers of scientific knowledge. For many people, brain disorders mean Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. Yet, of the 21 diseases studied at the Institut de Cerveau, 12 occur in childhood. In France, one in every 120 young people under the age of 20 suffers from a neurological or psychiatric disorder that disrupts their daily lives and future. Institut du Cerveau SCROLL The nonprofit Moto Action works in Cameroon to improve the mental health of teenagers born HIV-positive through supportive care such as art therapy and expressive movement. In 2023, for example, the nonprofit gave expressive movement workshops to 22 teenage girls. These workshops, led by Moto Action’s local teams and supervised by a choreographer from the organisation, helped the girls express their emotions and ease their suffering from discrimination, their health or loss of their parents. Marie-Chantal, a 24-year-old student who has been HIV-positive since birth, says: “As a person living with HIV, the workshops helped me express my feelings and emotions better. And above all, they relieved the sadness I feel for my mother’s absence. Now I can face life with a different outlook.” Moto Action SCROLL Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, 10 million people have had to leave their homes to seek shelter. Almost 25% of the population has fled Ukraine and is now living in other parts of the world. Across the country, more than half the population has urgent unmet needs, particularly regarding food, basic necessities, medical care and employment. On the ground, the French Red Cross continues to support the population. In France, French Red Cross volunteers continue to provide daily support to displaced Ukrainian families, helping them learn French and find permanent accommodation and employment. The nonprofit is also still working to bring families together, facilitating communication and conducting research to reunite families separated by the conflict. The French Red Cross watches closely to see if International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is upheld, which has often been violated since the start of the war and continues to communicate on this issue. French Red Cross SCROLL ASI has been working in Africa since 1985, and in the Congo for the past 15 years, helping young girls living on the streets. The nonprofit took in 12-year-old Alena Sarah Divine at the ASI centre in Dolisie upon recommendation by the police. Raised by a mentally ill mother, Divine had to cope with difficult living conditions, alternating between wandering the streets and sleeping under the stars. These experiences have profoundly affected her personality, altering her understanding of freedom and survival in a world that had become hostile. These circumstances led her to adopt problematic behaviours, such as lying, stealing and manipulating, isolating her from those around her. Her family struggled to understand her and manage her behaviour. Since joining the ASI centre, her behaviour has improved markedly. Placed with an empathetic foster family, Divine left the streets for a stable home where she has regained her self-confidence and is now forging healthier bonds with the other residents of the centre. ActionS de Solidarité Internationale (ASI) SCROLL Every year, Aviation Sans Frontières (ASF, Aviation without Borders) works in partnership with a number of NGOs to transport hundreds of children suffering from serious illnesses by air. These children, between the ages of 2 and 6 on average, come from around forty countries, mainly West and North Africa and Madagascar. They can thus receive treatment or emergency surgery in European hospitals that would be impossible in their home countries. These children are transported on regular commercial flights by volunteers, treated and returned to their families cured. Vincent, a volunteer since 2009, explains: “Being a transporter at ASF is an incredible experience. When you pick up a sick child for an operation, you know that it’s going to change their life and their family’s lives. For example, I picked up Makane, a little girl who returned to Cameroon after heart surgery in Toulouse. She recovered and was reunited with her parents in Douala on her first birthday. Very emotional!” Aviation Sans Frontières SCROLL In 2023, Cameroon was once again victim of a variety of crises, including armed conflicts in the far north and the English-speaking region, natural disasters and internal migration. These crises have made people even more vulnerable. Local humanitarian organisations bear witness: 4.7 million people are in need of humanitarian aid and 3.2 million are food insecure, the majority of whom are children under the age of 5. Thanks to the Air France Foundations’ Humanitarian Support programme, employees with expertise in health and nutrition went to Cameroon to set up programmes and support community health workers. And the proof in numbers: between January and June 2023, this programme helped treat 14,567 children. Tata, a mother of three from the remote village of Farka, received healthcare from the nonprofit: “It used to take me an entire day to get to the clinic, and sometimes we couldn’t even get to the hospital because it was too far and too dangerous. We treated ourselves with village remedies. Since our community health worker started treating children in the village, we only go to the clinic when they are seriously ill.” Action Contre la faim SCROLL Nan Mu Mu San, a little girl from Burma 2 years and 8 months old, was born with a congenital disorder. “She has difficulties every day and goes through challenges other children don’t, her mother tells us. She smiles a lot but can’t walk, which makes her dependent on the other members of the family.” However, Nan Mu Mu San’s parents have no access to a clinic. This is why Première Urgence Internationale set up a mobile clinic to provide healthcare throughout Myanmar. Its medical teams visited Nan Mu Mu San to examine her and offer emotional and psychological support to her family. This Première Urgence Internationale project, which came to an end in early 2023, met the essential needs of more than 6,500 people, providing healthcare, nutrition and access to water, hygiene and sanitation. In Venezuela, the organisation oversees healthcare, with the specific goal of reducing teenage pregnancies. The teams provide gynaecological exams, family planning advice and methods, screening and education on the right to sexual and reproductive health. The organisation operates in four of the country’s states, reaching over 13,000 patients. Première Urgence Internationale SCROLL French-African Paediatric Oncology Group (GFAOP) Created in 2000, the GFAOP is a medical organisation of African and French doctors who treat children with cancer in 18 French-speaking countries. It runs a network of 24 pilot paediatric oncology units in sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. Siméon lives in the province of Kasaï-Oriental, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has retinoblastoma, one of the most common childhood cancers, particularly in Africa, where there are 1,500 of the 8,000 new cases worldwide each year. Because his cancer was diagnosed late, Siméon was due to undergo surgery to remove his entire eyeball in February 2023. But because of the rapid progression of his tumour, he could only be treated in Lubumbashi, 1,000 km from home. It was there that he could also hope to receive chemotherapy. With the funds provided by the GFAOP and transport for the medical teams via the Air France Foundation, Siméon has received chemotherapy and an ocular prosthesis. SCROLL Médecins du Monde has developed a unique humanitarian programme since 1989, Opération Sourire (Operation Smile), which provides reconstructive surgery for children and adults suffering from congenital diseases and malformations or acquired abnormalities who would not otherwise be able to receive treatment. In 2023, Opération Sourire was particularly active in six countries: Cambodia, Laos, Madagascar, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. With support of the Air France Foundation, a large portion of the costs of transporting the medical, surgical and technical staff to Madagascar was covered. On this East African island, 59 children with cleft lip and palate and/or burns were treated through a new partnership with the Joseph-Dieudonné University Hospital in Antananarivo. In 2023, Médecins du Monde teams also conducted a fact-finding mission in more remote regions and offered workshops to raise awareness for discrimination due to congenital malformation. These workshops contribute to patients’ emotional, social and psychological well-being. For example, this young woman, age 22, was Médecins du Monde’s first patient in Madagascar and met with the NGO’s teams. She received the operation at the age of six months and has since overcame challenges with the support of her parents such as harassment and denigration because of her scars. Now a law school graduate, she is excelling as an actress and young ambassador for a United Nations organisation. Opération Sourire in 2023 (in all six countries): 7 projects, 302 patients operated, 84 healthcare professionals trained Médecins du Monde SCROLL Founded in 1996, Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque operates on 400 children every year in France from countries where specialists and resources are in short supply. Young patients are treated in eleven French towns and two Swiss towns. In France, they are hosted by volunteer families, and in Switzerland, in a specialised home. For more than ten years, Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque has been subsidised by Air France’s Humanitarian Support programme, receiving free humanitarian tickets for the most disadvantaged young patients. Three of these children received Air France tickets for treatment in France: Salahadin and Mako, ages 6 and 15, from Djibouti, and Aline, age 10, from Benin. As part of an aid mission in Senegal, a paediatric cardiologist and three members of the Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque team also received humanitarian tickets in 2023. After five days of examination in Dakar, 34 children received successful operations in France. One of them was Souleymane, who received surgery in Paris at the age of 9 with a humanitarian ticket: “I would like to thank Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque and the entire team, the transporters, my host family, for giving me this opportunity to come back to life and keep smiling.” Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque SCROLL AuditionSolidarité was founded in 2008 with the goal of helping disadvantaged people hear better. This nonprofit works with recycling, prevention and training and provides hearing technology in France and abroad. In 2014, with the support of the Air France Foundation, it began a humanitarian project in Madagascar, working with disadvantaged children between the ages of 3 and 18 who are deaf and hearing impaired at the Aka-ma specialised school. Thanks to the Foundation’s continued support, a team of 16 hearing professionals checked and replaced the hearing aids of 189 children provided during previous visits by the nonprofit. It also trained the local Madagascan team. Audition Solidarité Hearing care professional ENT doctor Julien Haeberlé Luc Moulonguet “We left our comfort zone, the day-to-day life of a hearing care professional in an office, to see how hearing care works in the field. We’re lucky to have a lot of recycled equipment, with things that are pretty easy to use, so we can do a lot with it.” “I shed a tear in front of everyone. It was very moving and touching when my teammate was fitting a child with a hearing aid. He heard sounds and started crying...” SCROLL