When Tanya Saadé Zeenny took over as Chair of the CMA CGM Foundation, she decided to take its engagement to the next level by pursuing projects around the world, with a special emphasis on Africa over the coming years.
The CMA CGM Foundation, in partnership with the crisis and support center of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, has contributed to a vast humanitarian operation in India.
By mobilizing the maritime, logistical and air expertise of the CMA CGM Group, this operation made it possible to transport free of charge eight oxygen production units, medical equipment and containers of liquefied oxygen to help the Indian population hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
India 2021 Humanitarian Operation: the CMA CGM Group transport emergency medical aid
The Covid-19 pandemic is a global phenomenon that has hit the most vulnerable the hardest. The Foundation has stepped up by shipping and handing out medical equipment at no cost across countries in Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal), Lebanon and the United States by harnessing the CMA CGM Group’s international network and logistics expertise.
Africa has tremendous educational needs, largely owing to its demographics: 60% of Africa’s population is under the age of 25, which means it has 750 million children and young people. Unfortunately, many of them do not have adequate access to high-quality training. The CMA CGM Foundation intends to play its part by enhancing access to education for children from thethrou most underprivileged areas or living in countries stricken by humanitarian crises.
Through the Containers of Hope operation, the CMA CGM Foundation participates in major international relief operations in support of its partners—high-profile international NGOs—providing solutions to humanitarian crises wherever in the world they occur. Since its launch, the operation has transported about 1,700 containers free of charge, or about 15,000 tons of humanitarian equipment, to 40 countries in crisis, mainly in Africa.
As part of the Containers of Hope operation and the partnership between the CMA CGM Foundation and UNICEF, 3.5 million school books have been shipped to Chad in 2021.
They have been handed out to school children aged between 7 and 11 in five cities across Chad (N’Djamena, Kanem, Mongo, Abéché and Moundou) to give them access to the materials they badly need for their school education.
The CMA CGM Group has operations in over 160 countries via its vast office network around the world. Staff members at these offices have first-hand knowledge of the issues facing the countries where they work. The CMA CGM Foundation has decided to involve them closely in expanding its international reach, giving them a say in selecting and supporting educational projects.
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