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Corporate Social Responsibility report Being an ethical and fair player in business

Additionally, for Christmas, Worldline Singapore set up a maple tree in its office to help meet the wishes of underprivileged children from a children’s home and enable its employees to give gifts based on these wishes.

improve people's quality of life. Worldline has also developed innovative solutions to facilitate donations in support of this cause as part of its skills sponsorship. For example, Worldline France has been a faithful partner of the Téléthon for almost 20 years, providing its multi-channel secure payment gateway for donations made by credit cards online or by mobile devices free of charge during the national campaign led by AFM-Téléthon. Within the scope of this partnership, fund-raising activities are also organized by employees at different Worldline sites in France for the benefit of the Téléthon. This great solidarity initiative is possible due to employee involvement: approximately 40 volunteers help make the event a success every year. In September 2017, 34 employees ran in the Paris-Versailles race in order to collect funds for the 2017 Telethon campaign. The new 2017 initiative was the large scale extension of the Donation Box operation (already tested within Worldline French sites in 2016). Through a partnership with retailers (pharmacies and shops), Téléthon was able to test, with external donors, a new experience of simple, immediate and interactive €5 micro-donation via contactless NFC bank card. From October to December 2017, 40 Donation Boxes powered by Worldline were lent to Telethon partners. Worldline also created a customized web page for the association to enable real-time tracking and updating of total amounts collected. The objective is to help Téléthon better adapt to the new opportunities offered by the digital transformation in terms of fund collection through Worldline skills sponsorship. Other programs have also received support from Worldline, such as Big against breast cancer in Belgium that supports women, in healthcare settings, suffering from cancer during pregnancy, Vivre comme avant is a charity for patients suffering from, or diagnosed with, breast cancer and which offers help and support via open discussion, shared experience and support groups etc. In September 2017, 25 Worldline Belgium employees also were involved in the Plant Weekend event by selling azalea flowers, and thus helping the Kom op tegen Kanker non-profit organization that protects the rights of patients to benefit from the best medical treatments and a healthy living environment. The new company equensWorldline is also engaged in health causes with colleagues from equensWorldline Netherlands working as volunteers for De Zonnebloem to accompany people with a physical disability to visit zoos, theme parks or museums, or by participating to the Atos 14 th Cycle Tour (a 475 km cycle tour from Paris to Eindhoven in two days), whose goal is to raise funds against cancer.

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Promoting education and

employability throughdigital inclusion Worldline employees volunteer their time and share their knowledge, skills and expertise of the IT industry in schools in their local communities in order to provide equal access to education (girls and boys) and fight against social exclusion. Below are some examples of activities implemented in different countries. Since 2011, Worldline has had a partnership with Énergie Jeunes, a non-profit organization in France whose aim is to fight school drop-out in secondary schools located in underprivileged neighborhoods and to encourage teenagers to persevere in their studies, thus fighting against a sense of “failure.” Worldline volunteers work with such secondary schools located near Bezons sites in France. More specifically dedicated to the learning of the basics of coding, Worldline France set up a new initiative in 2017 that consists in offering a Coding Course in a high school in Bezons. For the first time, five volunteers went each week, for several months, to the high school for two hours each time and taught to a group of 18 pupils the computer programming through games. If this is a success, the initiative could be extended to other sites in the coming years. In addition, in 2017, 15 Belgium Worldline employees rode their bikes to raise money for Close the Gap, an international non-profit organization that aims to bridge the digital divide by offering high-quality, pre-owned computers donated by European companies to educational, medical and social projects in developing and emerging countries. Finally, in 2017, in memory of an Italian colleague Francesca Dell’Osa who passed away from a severe illness at the age of 31, the Head of Sales Alessandro Baroni decided to allocate a symbolic amount for a donation to the Politecnico Milano where she graduated, for a memorial scholarship in the name of Francesca, with the objective of promoting engineering courses at the Politecnico school (Academic Years 2017/2018).

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Fighting disease and illness

Worldline and its employees are very actively involved in health and well-being initiatives worldwide via the local charities and NGOs networks where the company has a presence, to raise funds for research and provide better access to healthcare and

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