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SUPPORTING THOSE MOST IN NEED
Solidarity plays a central part in our firm’s pro bono commitment, with support offered to many charities combating poverty and exclusion.
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n 2015, we entered into a new partnership with Habitat et Humanisme, offering our financial and skills support to help develop ‘La Villa de Saxe’, a social housing building in central Paris for 27 young people encountering social difficulties and striving for reintegration. Gide also offers its long-standing support to the ATD Fourth World Movement, in particular its programme Travailler et Apprendre Ensemble (Working and Learning Together). The purpose of this programme is to develop innovative ways to organise work so that everyone can bring their experience to the growth of a company. As well as providing financial donations in 2015 and 2016, Gide’s lawyers have repeatedly offered their advice on ad hoc legal questions.
Working and Learning Together is ATD Fourth World’s research and testing lab as regards corporate organisation and management. Our aim is to identify the best practices to enable socially vulnerable people living in ultra-poverty to re-integrate the active population, with dignity and over the long term. We are very grateful to Gide for the support it offers, both financially and in employment law. This type of partnership is vital in our fight against poverty, as it requires that the integrated change their view of excluded persons, and vice versa. Gide’s commitment shows that this change of view is underway, and we hope that it will inspire other economic partners to follow suit.
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Didier GOUBERT, ‘Travailler et Apprendre Ensemble’ Project Director within ATD Fourth World Movement.
In 2015-2016, the firm funded and advised several other charities and initiatives:
◗ Sport dans la Ville, for the integration of young people through sports; ◗ Plan International France, for the protection of children in the world’s poorest regions; ◗ Fondation Imagine, in its search for medical advances against genetic diseases;
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