Every two years, as BESIX Group employees, you are asked to choose your favourite project from among the initiatives supported by the BESIX Foundation.
And this year, to mark our 15th anniversary, we’re giving out 2 awards of €25,000 each!
AMONSOLI (Action Mondiale pour la Solidarité) organises a homework school and remedial courses for around a hundred young people, as well as extracurricular activities for a larger number.
The association also organises a social service, individual support and training for 300 adults. In addition to all this, it organises social, recreational and cultural activities for everyone. And since 2023, they have also been housing refugees in partnership with Fedasil.
BESIX Foundation financed renovation work and IT equipment.
Armen Te Kort supports the integration of the most disadvantaged people in Antwerp through a Buddy dynamic based on hundreds of volunteers. In 10 years, more than 1,500 people have been supported over a 2-year period. Encouraged by the success of this project, the association created the Elk Kind Telt project to support the schooling of teenagers. General support for 600 young people, and therefore also their families, for 6 years, to ensure optimum motivation so that the child can equip himself for life.
BESIX Foundation has funded the development of the Elk Kind Telt project.
Au Four et Au Moulin is a social economy enterprise that helps around a hundred jobseekers a year to improve their skills. These people, who are often far removed from the job market, benefit from personal support that helps them to rebuild their professional future through practical, diversified training and personal coaching.
Au Four et Au Moulin proves that the social economy can be a powerful vector for inclusion and sustainable transformation.
BESIX Foundation financed the renovation of the workshop and equipment for the bakery.
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Cavoequiva, which was set up by a former homeless man, takes in 90 street girls every year in Abidjan and also organises schooling for 150 girls, thanks to a large number of volunteers. The association tries to organise a return to the family whenever possible, but around forty girls are officially under the care of the association. In 2023, our colleagues organised a KiddyBuild and in 2024, Queen Mathilde visited the project.
BESIX Foundation financed extension work on the top floor of the building. And in 2022, Cavoequiva has already won a Staff Award, enabling it to complete this work.
De Moazoart, which runs a social restaurant and grocery shop, creates links between people and supports the most disadvantaged. With the help of numerous volunteers and partners in the sector, they can organise leisure, training and educational activities for several hundred people. Whether it’s for career guidance or personal development. In 2025, a branch will be opened in Moerbeke.
BESIX Foundation financed the renovation of the Lokeren building.
Le Pivot is developing a community project in the Bas-Etterbeek neighbourhood of Brussels to enable around fifty individuals and families living in extreme poverty to get together and break the vicious circle of poverty. The project involves a wide range of activities, including the writing of a newspaper called ‘Debout’ by the project’s beneficiaries, who can share their stories and become agents of change.
BESIX Foundation financed the work of an educator with the families and renovation work.
OPUS III supports educational projects in Jaipur, through 4 primary schools, a technical school, short practical training courses for women and micro-credit. OPUS III has also opened a pharmacy and a dispensary. And, last but not least, a dairy, a social economy project. The projects also benefit from the voluntary work of numerous Belgian volunteers.
BESIX Foundation financed the creation of the technical school.
Racynes is a social integration service in Haccourt. Initially focusing on the socio-professional integration of young adults through activities on their farms, it then set up its first temporary accommodation project. It now runs 31 of these. Next came the creation of a social grocery shop and support for young people who had dropped out of school. Then came the homework school, the social restaurant, training in French and citizenship, and finally the community vegetable gardens. Thousands of people are currently supported by Racynes.
BESIX Foundation financed the creation of the first homes and the purchase of a Tiny house.
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