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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) 5 Societal information

• Volta a Portugal (Portugal) In 2017, volunteers pedaled 3,266 kmon the Rubis Energia Portugal stand as part of the Volta a Portugal – Pédaler pour la bonne cause (Pedal for a good cause) initiative, and raised €19,500 which was then shared between 3 non-profits: • Dançando Com a Diferença: founded in 2001, Dançando Com a Diferença promotes the concept of “inclusive dance”. The non-profit offers various activities in schools and in certain vocational centers in Madeira. It assists over 100 people every week by distributing food, clothing and household utensils; • Associação Acreditar: this network, created in 1994, deals with the many challenges of childhood cancer. It provides emotional, logistical and social support for children and their close relatives. Each year, more than 1,000 families received help from Acreditar; • Ajuda de Berço: this non-profit focuses on children, from birth to the age of 3, who have been abandoned, in order to give each one a decent life by returning them to their biological family or placing themwith an adoptive family. At present, Ajuda de Berço has the capacity to accommodate 40 children. Since 1998, the non-profit has taken 378 children under its wing.

as education to prepare them for social and professional integration and help them to become independent, fulfilled adults. The orphanage houses a total of 260 boys who have been abandoned, who are or- phans or who come from poverty-stricken families. Support from the local subsidiary, Vito- gaz Maroc, has enabled the orphanage’s kitchen, bathroom facilities and dormitories to be refurbished. In late 2017, the Group organized a shoe collection in France, in aid of children at the orphanage. • Streams of Hope (Togo) Streams of Hope was set up in 2009 to fight the poverty experienced by the rural Togo population, focusing on programs to im- prove living conditions. The aimof this initiative is to raise rural com- munities’ awareness of the importance of methods of contraception and to encou- rage pregnant women to have pre- and post-natal check-ups in order to avoid some of the adverse effects that can occur during childbirth. In total, the non-profit gave 1,287 women check-ups and an additional 1,693 people received education on the issue, notably within a school setting.

CLOSE-UP OF… LOCAL COMMITMENT This year the Group wanted to adopt an in- ternational outlook to enable Rubis to lend its support in each of the countries where it operates, through its local subsidiaries. Since the Group has experienced rapid growth in a number of disadvantaged or middle-income countries, Rubis has beco- me aware of its corporate responsibility and its duty to integrate more closely. As well as offering financial support, theGroup encou- rages its employees to get involved in local communities by giving time to local activi- ties, raising money or taking part in local community events. The Group supports non-profits whose spheres of activity are wide-ranging: vacci- nation campaigns, aid for street children, surgery, building schools, preventing endemicillnesses,culturaldevelopmentand education for disadvantaged children. The numerous local projects supported by Rubis include: • The Association de Bienfaisance Sidi Bernoussi (Morocco) Since its creation in 1986, the Association de Bienfaisance Sidi Bernoussi has provided shelter and protection to vulnerable child- ren by offering them a place where they can be housed, fed and cared for, as well

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