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InBev-Baillet Latour Fund
Count Alfred de Baillet Latour, administrator of the Artois breweries between 1947 and 1980, created the InBev-Baillet
Latour Fund in 1974. True to his will, the Fund’s goal is to encourage accomplishments of high human value in the scientific,
educational or artistic fields and to award with prizes, study grants, trips or gifts in cash or goods. In its activities, the Fund seeks
no financial reward and does not take political, union, philosophical or religious convictions into account. Through its action,
the Fund tries to contribute to the common good by encouraging scientific, artistic or educational activity, true to the wishes
of its generous donor. For the next three years, the fund will donate yearly 150,000 euro to the Antwerp Prins Leopold Institute
for Tropical Medicine (ITG). The ITG is a highly recognized center for research, education and combating ‘neglected diseases’
such as sleeping sickness, bilharzias and buruli. In areas such as India, Eastern Africa and Brazil this infection threatens half a
million people yearly and kills thousands of lives.
The fund and the International Polar Foundation have joined together to offer a new scientific grant for studying climate
and related environmental change. The Antarctica InBev-Baillet Latour Fellowship Award is a research grant amounting
to 150,000 euro and will be awarded every two years to a project carried out as part of a doctorate or post-doctorate in a
Belgian university. The Award will allow the beneficiary to carry out his/her work in the discipline and domain of the person’s
choice, at Belgium’s new Princess Elisabeth Antarctic research station, the construction of which will begin in Autumn 2007.
The organizations behind this grant are seeking to enhance the knowledge and information that polar research has already
built upon in this field, through a better understanding of climate history as well as climate phenomena and their current and
future influence on ecosystems and oceans. Click here to visit the Fund’s website www.interbrew-baillet-latour.be/en/home.asp.
Fonds Verhelst
Created in 1949 by Mr. Léon Verhelst, former president of the board of the Artois breweries, the Fonds Verhelst is an
independent Belgian company with a social purpose, totally auto-funded, free from any political or commercial objective.
Its mission is to provide temporary assistance to the InBev employees and their families on the most crucial occasions in their
lives as well as to contribute to their welfare. In 2007, the Fonds Verhelst was still mainly active in Belgium. As a new Western
European initiative, it has enlarged its employee assistance program (EAP) to the following countries: the Netherlands,
Germany, France, Luxembourg and Italy. The EAP is a counselling service each InBev employee and his/her family members
can call on free of charge and confidentially mainly to handle professional and private problems and questions. It also offers
three other types of counselling: management counselling for issues related to team management, legal counselling for all legal
questions outside the professional area and the budget counselling for families facing financial issues.
Antônio and Helena Zerrenner Foundation
A national benevolent institution that is part of the AmBev controlling group, the Antônio and Helena Zerrenner Foundation
(FAHZ) invests in the Company’s employees and dependents, totalling more than 50,000 people throughout Brazil. FAHZ
covers medical, hospital and dental plan, scholarships, supplies of school materials for more than 10,000 students and the
distribution of thousands of hampers and Christmas toys.
Gol de Letra Foundation
AmBev supports the Gol de Letra Foundation that works with children, teenagers and young people in São Paulo and Rio
de Janeiro through programs and projects for the implementation of a new teaching method that offers knowledge, culture
and citizenship; the Growth Institute for TV, Cinema and New Media, which contributes to inserting young people from low
income communities from the municipality of São Paulo into the job market through a program of technical and socio-cultural
training; and the Citizens Sport Club program developed by the Porto Alegre Young Men’s Christian Association (ACM) and
by the Dunga Institute for Citizenship Development to promote citizenship through the practice of team sports.
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