We are committed
The Orange Foundation is present in Belgium via the Orange Belgium Fund, which is managed by the King Baudouin Foundation.
For over 30 years the mission of the Orange Foundation has been to make digital a factor facilitating equality
of opportunity.
In Belgium, we are delighted to have created the Orange Belgium Fund in order to support projects that
promote solidarity and responsibility.
This patronage aims to provide concrete assistance to associations on the ground that are active in digital
inclusion.
Today, almost 1 out of 2 Belgians is in a situation of digital vulnerability (source: digital barometer of the King Baudouin Foundation 2022).
We are convinced that, as an actor in the telecommunications sector, we have a vital role to play in giving
everyone access to the possibilities offered by the new technologies and making digital a factor to
facilitate equality of opportunity.
We want to make a priority commitment to people excluded from digital, especially young persons in
precarious situations and women.
With our technologies and resources, we are advancing step by step towards greater digital inclusion.
Our patronage projects
50,000 € to support the digital inclusion of refugees in Belgium
The objective? To provide concrete assistance to both migrants and welcoming volunteers in the field:
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it´s a gift of 25,000 € to Digidak in order to finance
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300sessions of individual digital accompaniment for the most vulnerable citizens, refugees or seniors in the province of Antwerp
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50 sessions of accompaniment to lower the digital thresholds of the volunteers
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it´s a gift of 25,000 € to Plateforme citoyenne de soutien aux réfugiés in order to finance in both Brussels and Wallonia
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IT equipment for 75 people intended to facilitate their administrative interactions, search for housing, employment, etc.
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WiFi connections to enable 3,000 persons to stay in contact with their family and friends in their country of origin
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Thanks already to our customers who also participate by choosing to give via the Orange
Thank You loyalty programme (10.000 € raised)!
And to our employees who are supporting this donation campaign!
Together we are advancing step by step towards greater digital inclusion.
We chose to support TADA in order to structurally help socially vulnerable young people in
Brussels by offering them a digital guidance programme.
Starting in September 2022, our internal teams will put their backs into the project.
We will be present at the weekend schools to add a digital layer to the learning programmes of these
children between 10 and 14 years old.
For young people over 18 who have already attended the weekend schools - that is, the alumni network - we are
creating a Digital Club with coaching, mentoring,
internships at Orange and synergies with our partners. We will pay particular attention to attracting both male
and female profiles.
Finally, we want to strengthen the knowledge and use of collaborative tools for those around these young
people via home visits, webinars, etc.
We want to support 700 children via the weekend schools, 1,000 alumni and the parents. It’s an
ambitious project, and we are proud to be
carrying it out with TADA and the King Baudouin Foundation. TADA (meaning ToekomstATELIERdelAvenir, or “WORKSHOP of the
Future”) is a bilingual non-profit, active in Brussels and existing for 10 years with a proven track record in
the field of inclusion.
700 PCs for Ukrainian schools
In response to an appeal from the European Commission we are preparing to donate 700 reconditioned PCs for Ukrainian citizens in 2023.
These computers are currently being cleaned and refurbished. This is an ambitious project that we are delighted to implement in order to support teachers and schoolchildren in the war zones of Ukraine.
It is a further example of our commitment to digital inclusion.
Different project, different support: €32,500 invested for the benefit of the Tic Tac Lab!
It is in this Solidarity FabLab that institutionalised young people receive an introduction to technological tools. Over the course of 4 weekends, they will learn to create objects using computer-controlled machines.
We donated 40 refurbished PCs to the BeCentral Foundation www.becentralfoundation.org, supporting the Code United project. These computers were used during completely free coding and improvisation camps for 700 children aged 8 to 12 in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi and Liège.
Following the floods in the region of Liège, we supported the Côté Solidarité association www.cotesolidarite.be, by donating refurbished PCs and furniture to help the victims rebuild their lives.
Being aware that environmental conservation is taking place internationally and concerns us all, we finance environmentally responsible local public utility projects in Africa. With this in mind, we support
- mini-hydropower plants in Liberia that provide green electricity and avoid the use of polluting energy
- sustainable farming and sustainable land management practices in Kenya to enable local populations to preserve the ecosystem
