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CORPORATE SOCIALRESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
BarryCallebaut
Annual Report2010/11
Education Our goals Results 2009/10 Results 2010/11
Akoupé Secondary
School – QPP – Côte
d’Ivoire
Child labor sensitization
activities – QPP –
Côte d’Ivoire
Promoting education
and supporting rural
schools – QPP – Côte
d’Ivoire
Winning Together! –
Supporting education
in cocoacommunities –
Ghana
Supporting education
in cocoacommunities –
Brazil
In partnership with
UCADAunion and other
stakeholders,execute
plan forfacilities to be
used as acommunity
learning center to serve
hundreds of children,
youth and adults by
2010/2011
Reach 5,000 farmers in
child labor sensitization
sessions in 2009/10
Evaluate selectQPP
partner requests for
community education
support
By 2010/11, double
levels of educational
supportservices from
710 kits in 2008/09
Implementation of
planned school renovations
and improvements
by end of 2010
Launch family scholarship
program as partof
2010 Winning Together!
ForGhana – Walk
Around the World employeeinitiative
Expand Permacultura
program to 1to3more
schools
Solid progress by NGO
partners executing literacy
and agricultural
programs forout-ofschool
youth.Child labor
sensitization activities
conducted with
union members; however,rollout
to communities
wasdelayed.
Newimplementing
partners identified and
rollout foreseen for2011
Sensitization programs
on the Worst Forms of
Child Labor were conducted
with 604farmer
representatives from
41 coops.Participating
farmers will in turn
train other farmers in
their respectivecooperative
Built 2new rural primary
schools with capacity
for150 pupils each,
and teacher housing in
San Pedroregion,in
partnership with 2QPP
member coops
1,000 school kits distributed
Completed mutually
agreed refurbishments
including furniture,
classroom and building
renovations,access to
electricity and water,
and provision of books,
teaching aids,computers
and sports equipment
Funded 3-year scholarship
program for30
mothers and 60 children
in 4cocoa communities
in Ghana, and
distributed funding
allocations to beneficiaries
Educational program
wasrevised and renamed
ProjectFazenda
Cultural (Cultural Farm
Project – Learn to
Grow), and is being
executed in partnership
with local development
experts
Sponsored construction
of canteen and infirmary,and
donations of
booksfor school library
and canteen equipment.
Temporaryprogram
stoppagedue to
political crisis in Côte
d’Ivoirefollowing
national elections in
November 2010.Project
targets shifted to
2011/12
Temporaryactivity
stoppagedue to political
crisis in Côte d’Ivoire
following national elections
in November
2010.Targets shifted to
2011/12
Built 1new rural primary
school with capacity
for150 pupils,and
teacher housing,in
partnership with 1QPP
coop; identified 2new
QPP coops with whom
to partner on rural
school projects in
2011/12
845 school kits distributed
Projects completed
In first year of scholarship
program,20of30
mothers reported continued
quarterly income
increases from
their small businesses;
10 reported same level
of income increase as in
first quarter or adip
back to baseline figures
Continuation of Project
Fazenda Cultural;exploration
of possible plantations
on which to
launch asimilar program
in 2011/12
Key challenges
· Political and economic
uncertainties in Africa
· Ensuring effective operations
and governance through
established school management
committee
· Identifying competent local
partners for training and
community engagement on child
labor issues
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