BIC - 2018 Registration document

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

Our societal responsibility [NFPS]

The BIC Corporate Foundation takes action in three different ways to fulfill its mission:

Beneficiary

Description of the project

Projects funded directly by the Foundation Sport dans la Ville (France)

Construction of a center called “But en Or” (“Golden Goal”) to encourage children and young people to engage in various sports activities. events, excursions and summer camps. The “L dans la Ville” program helps girls unlock their potential through sports, mentoring, cultural activities and professional development. The “Job dans la Ville” program helps young people define their professional orientation and career objectives. Funding of a school in the Chars region, which is under constant threat from natural disasters and suffers from a chronic shortage of educational structures. The school offers pre-primary and primary education with a focus on ethics, environmental awareness and improved personal hygiene, along with more traditional teaching (English, mathematics, etc.). A center for adults has also been opened to improve literacy among mothers of Friendship pupils and other adults. Kibera is Africa’s largest shantytown. Most of its residents subsist on less than one dollar per day. The Foundation sponsors ICT training for girls as well as the Kiva Loan program, which offers startup capital for entrepreneurial ventures by Kibera residents. It also finances a program for education through sports specifically for girls, and a scholarship program covering 100% of the beneficiaries’ school expenses for four years. At the global level, matching fund campaigns: the employees are mobilized through fundraising drives and the Group matches the amount of money collected. All BIC subsidiaries around the world participate in these campaigns. In 2018, BIC employees contributed 62,000 euros, which was doubled by the BIC Corporate Foundation to reach a total of 124,000 euros. These donations went to the NGO LP4Y (Life Project 4 Youth) to support a youth center project in Chhattisgarh, India, called “A New Center, A New Start.” The center offers high-quality training to develop young people’s social and professional skills, along with sessions to build awareness of sustainable development, and will be an economic development driver for the region. The goal is to help 600 young people between 2017 and 2020. At the local level, “BIC Citizens in Action” also encompasses numerous volunteer projects around the world, in which BIC employees donate their time, energy and resources to help local associations and organizations. A worldwide program launched by the Group in 2008, based on a shared commitment by employees and the Corporate Foundation, with the goal of protecting the environment and helping local communities. This initiative, proposed by BIC Mexico, offers a six-month “boot camp” program in computer coding for women from underprivileged backgrounds. This initiative, proposed by BIC Graphic Europe (Spain), allows 132 children in danger of educational exclusion to receive scholastic aid for three years, along with assistance for their families.

Friendship (Bangladesh)

Carolina for Kibera (Kenya)

BIC Citizens In Action Project Life Project 4 Youth (LP4Y)

Winners of the call for in-house projects Laboratoria (Mexico)

Croix Rouge (Spain)

In 2018, the Foundation continued to expand its operations and defined the basis of methods for measuring the impact that it aims to have. This will enable the Foundation to monitor its activity and the benefits that it provides. Awareness and coaching actions In the learning process, writing by hand is a basic skill that helps structure the thought process. For this reason, writing instruments are indispensable tools for advancing the improvement of learning conditions. In recent years, BIC teams have taken action to support and facilitate handwriting and promote its importance in children’s development, especially through: the launch and development of the BIC ® Kids range, created in ● cooperation with psychomotor specialists, ergonomists and teachers specifically to help prepare children to learn handwriting, in particular the proper way to hold and use writing instruments;

initiatives in schools in a number of countries (South Africa, ● Cameroon, Egypt, Spain, India, Morocco, Nigeria, the Philippines, etc.) such as: building awareness of the importance of education and writing, the production of written materials or workshops to offer teachers resources that they can use in class; for the first time in 2018, a special week was dedicated to ● education. Called “BIC Global Education Week” (October 1-5), the event offered all BIC employees the opportunity to donate a day of their time to improving learning conditions in their local community. Perspectives ❯ In 2019, BIC will pursue its efforts, continuing to work with key people to promote successful education, as well as pupils and students, teachers and parents. The Group plans to open its first training institute in India and to host another “Education Week.”

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