Charity partners
Societe Generale believes banks have a role to play to contribute to the positive transformations of societies. In the communities where we operate, charities play a vital role in bringing people together on causes which are making the world a better place.
Among these many great causes, Societe Generale is committed to social inclusion. By focusing efforts on integration – whether through education, employment, training, culture or sport – Societe Generale believes that it is a powerful driver that can help everyone to find their place and simultaneously create a source of social innovation.
We partner with several local charity organisations across the region to run fundraising and staff volunteering activities throughout the year as well as an annual charity challenge, Move For Youth. Learn more about the Group’s foundation.
In Asia Pacific, we are partnering with the following organisations:
Australia
Children frequently arrive at school without the food they need to fuel their growing bodies and brains. Missing out on lunch has a big impact on children, with hunger causing fatigue and poor concentration. This commonly leads to learning difficulties and behavioural problems in school, with disadvantaged children falling further behind their peers. Many children come from homes experiencing financial hardship, substance abuse, violence, homelessness or are refugees. Eat Up is Australia’s only organisation providing free lunches to students on a national scale. To date, we have provided over 3 million lunches to Aussie kids in need! With the help of our partners and dedicated volunteers, each week Eat Up makes and delivers over 20,000 lunches directly to schools for vulnerable children. |
Hong Kong
Po Leung Kuk (PLK) supports children and young people admitted to PLK residential care and mainly coming from families with disadvantaged backgrounds. |
Launched in 2011, Project WeCan is a Business-in-Community initiative providing students who are disadvantaged in learning with opportunities and care to empower them for pursuing higher studies and future careers. Project WeCan provides financial and volunteer supports to 82 schools and 87,000 children across Hong Kong.
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India
Founded in 1999, Agastya International Foundation is a charitable education trust that runs one of the world's largest mobile hands-on science education programs for economically disadvantaged children and teachers. Agastya has reached over 25 million children and 300,000 teachers in 24 states across India. The program includes hands-on science sessions conducted in the schools by the instructors of the science center, mobile innovation lab or lab-on-a-bike, using models covering a wide range of topics in physics, chemistry and biology. It influences key behavioral shifts in children and builds local leadership by honing their problem-solving skills and entrepreneurial thinking. |
Aseema Charitable Trust is a non-governmental organization with a mission to equip children from marginalized communities with high quality, value-based education; enabling development of their limitless potential. Over the past 25 years, Aseema has worked extensively with children living in slum communities in Mumbai and remote tribal communities in Igatpuri, Maharashtra. More than 3,000 children experience the Aseema Approach to education at three schools in Mumbai and one at Igatpuri. |
Ennoble Social Innovation Foundation is focused on developing innovative, sustainable, and scalable solutions for transforming the government and community schools. Ennoble specialises in creating conducive learning ecosystems at schools by revamping school infrastructure and delivering Competency Based education through Teacher Professional Development. The initiatives have been recognized through several national and international awards including Cemex-Tec Social Entrepreneurship Award- Mexico, Infosys Foundation – Aarohan Innovation Award, Top 24 Startup- Maharashtra State Innovation Award. |
Lila Poonawalla Foundation (LPF) is a public charitable trust in India, instituted in 1995 by Mrs. Lila Poonawalla (recipient of the Padma Shri award) and Mr. Firoz Poonawalla. LPF offers merit-cum-need based scholarships to carefully chosen academically bright but financially challenged girls, supporting them in pursuing undergraduate degrees in nursing, pharmacy, engineering, sciences, as well as postgraduate degrees. With this, LPF also offers these young women relevant essential life skills, and professional and employability skill building programs. Since its establishment, LPF has helped transform the lives of over 14,000 girls. |
The K.C. Mahindra Education Trust was founded in 1953, by the late Mr. K.C. Mahindra, with the objective of promotion of literacy and higher learning in the country. |
Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal is a Public Charitable Trust. From its beginning with the Swadeshi Movement in 1934, the Mandal has now grown into an educational foundation promoting global thinking consistent with national interest and values, professionalism, social sensitivity and dynamic entrepreneurship. It is imparting education to more than 120,000 students. With a strong vision and passion for being the pioneers of the modern education system, all SVKM institutes are state of the art, with ever expanding facilities and infrastructure. |
TIDE (Technology Informatics Design Endeavour) was founded in 1993 with the purpose of identifying concepts, prototypes and technologies that have been developed in various laboratories, adapt them where required and disseminate them to communities. Gradually, their work has evolved into holistic programs that included themes such as Women and Livelihood, Water & environment, energy efficiency and energy conservation and cookstoves. |
VIDYA (Integrated Development for Youth and Adults) is a non-profit NGO started in 1985. They are a charitable organization that specializes in the education and empowerment of less-privileged children, youth and women through working with them at an individual level. They help communities by designing programs in a way that empowering one empowers the other. |
Japan
Kidsdoor is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting children in Japan to grow in a fair and healthy environment, and helping them have hopes for a bright future. The organization was founded in January 2007, with the aim of "Realization of the society in which all children in Japan can have a hope and dream for future", and certified as an official NPO by the cabinet on October 2009. Kids' Door has been conducting various activities such as free educational support and events for children in Japan. |
YouMeWe is a Tokyo-based non profit organization that is solely dedicated to nurturing and supporting local students from institutionalized homes. For a decade, our NPO’s mission is to assist students in becoming fully independent as they reach the age of 18, such as gaining financial literacy. |
Mainland China
Adream Foundation helps underprivileged children and focuses on promoting equity in education by providing rural areas in Mainland China with “Adream Centre”, a multimedia classroom with books and computers with internet access. |
Singapore and Southeast Asia
Children’s Wishing Well is a non-profit organisation and registered charity which was founded in 2002. They provide a broad range of services for children and youth from low-income families nationwide. Their services support their current educational and daily living needs, and equip them with skills for their future, so as to build a strong foundation for them to contribute as useful members of society. |
Established in 2003, Art Outreach is a non-profit arts intermediary that is dedicated to promoting art appreciation in Singapore and strengthening networks in the local art ecosystem. They enable practitioners to sustain careers in the arts by offering financial support, professional development opportunities, and an independent and free space to nurture and incubate their work, as well as through facilitating dialogues with collectors and industry leaders. They also champion the value of art by presenting a year-round roster of accessible and innovative programmes catered to diverse audiences—encompassing educational talks for schools, public art tours, exhibitions and artist residencies—with the aim of encouraging a deeper understanding and appreciation of art and artists in the community. |
South Korea
Bookboo Welfare Centre focuses on the support of underprivileged families, located notably in Nowon-Gu (the north part of Seoul). |
Taiwan
Taiwan Fund for Children & Families (TFCF) is a non-governmental organisation that dedicates itself to supporting needy children and their families with welfare and benefits. |
2023 Impact Report for Asia Pacific
More than ever, we aim to contribute to the positive impact in the communities. With the support of the Group and the continued commitment of our staff, we are proud to have participated in the development of our partners’ youth education programmes.