CONTENTS - Capgemini

26 ANNUAL
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the trust – which will help about 185 young people make a fresh
start in life. The Teach First program gives top graduates both
teaching and leadership experience. Capgemini takes on several
teachers as interns, every year, giving them the opportunity to
learn business skills. The Time to Read program continues to help
children with learning difficulties, many Capgemini employees
spending their lunch time helping children to read. Working
Links is a public/private/voluntary partnership between The
Shareholder Executive, Manpower, Capgemini and Mission Australia
that helps people in some of Britain’s most disadvantaged
communities to get back to work. Since its creation, Working
Links has helped over 76,000 people find a job. Working with
the charity organization Plan UK to rebuild a primary school in
Banda Aceh (Indonesia) which was destroyed by the Tsunami
of December 2004, Capgemini UK employees raised £117,000
(approximately €175,000) and the school was re-opened in
July 2006. For the last four and a half years, Capgemini has
provided funding, business experience and time to support the
Rotherham Rugby Club’s community program which focuses
on sport, health and learning. Our support has helped them
provide activities for almost 3,000 children a year. The activities
are all free and include: rugby coaching for juniors, reading partnerships
and additional help for innumeracy, healthy lifestyles
and programs for children in care.
Telford, in the Midlands, is home to Capgemini’s largest UK
client work - the Aspire project. With over 2,500 employees in
Telford, Capgemini is the largest private employer in the region.
We have taken an active role in the local community, with an
early sponsorship of the local football club - AFC Telford United
- which had been facing financial difficulties. Since July 2004,
we have helped turn around the fortunes of the football club,
created opportunities for coaching for youngsters and been
part of developing a new learning center which supports over
8,000 school children and socially disadvantaged people every
year. In 2006, we were awarded the Chamber of Commerce
Shropshire Star Business Award for Best Business in the Community.
The award recognizes our long term relationship with AFC
Telford United as well as with the local council, local charities
and the people who live around Telford. We have helped
approximately 2,000 people in the area and our employees have
raised over £20,000 for a local charity.
In North America, the focus has been on supporting local community
programs. A number of individuals took on personal
challenges to raise money for causes such as aid to build schools
in Ethiopia and support to cancer research.
In the Netherlands, Capgemini is giving assistance to a school
project for street kids in India: the Rainbow Home Project delivered
10,416 weeks of education and accommodation in 2006,
plus a commitment to 40 children who will be supported for
the next 5 years.
In China, in our BPO center in Guangzhou, the teams are
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working to support each other when faced with exceptional
personal situations and to foster and build team spirit by building
a fund to help individuals faced with personal hardship.
In addition, the office collects old clothing, shoes, and books
for children - aged 6 to 14 years - in a Tibetan orphanage.
Charity donations for helping poor children is part of a continuous
volunteer effort, directed at helping the poor in their
local communities.
India organizes blood donation camps and, in 2006, collected
a total of 1,047 bottles of blood. Such drives not only help
society but also our employees, in need of blood for their ailing
relatives, who can avail themselves of the facility by contacting
the Indian Blood Bank authorities..
7.4.1 Corporate Social Responsibility and talent development
As part of the Aspire commitment to Learning and Development
and to reflect the Capgemini Corporate Social Responsibility,
five community projects have been developed. Teams of junior
executives are working with local government and charitable
organizations in order to help local school children and socially
excluded people by raising money.
Aspire’s Academy Programs are:
Playing for Success – The UK Department for Education and
Skills £1.5 million Playing for Success initiative is establishing
out–of-school-hours study support centers at football clubs
and other sports’ grounds. The centers use the environment
and medium of football, rugby and other sports as motivational
tools, and focus on raising literacy, numeracy and ICT standards
amongst pupils. A Capgemini graduate team is involved in
creating an IT/web solution with the local Council.
Green Grads – Employees have been assigned the task of
making Capgemini more environmentally friendly and reducing
its ecological imprint. The target for this project is to make
International House - the first Capgemini building in Telford
- as “green” as possible. Developing and implementing green
initiatives benefits the environment and reduces costs.
H20 – Academy employees have been tasked with raising
£10,000 by creating fun, employee fund-raising events for the
Aspire 2006-nominated charity Help the Hospice.
Goal Getters – Utilizing the Capgemini access to the AFC
ground, a large scale event is to take place that will generate
excitement and energy in the local community and hopefully
give the community a lasting legacy.
Capture – In celebration of the 250 th anniversary of the British
engineer - Thomas Telford, we are working with the Telford
College of Arts & Technology and the local theatre to run a
mobile phone competition. Children from fourteen local schools
have been invited to enter a photographic archive of “My
Telford: Past, Present and Future” as part of an exhibition to
be held in June.