Our actions Worldwide

In 2024, with the support of the CMA CGM Foundation, the NGO Gol de Letra, founded by former footballer Rai, acquired  new premises in Vila Albertina, São Paulo, officially inaugurated on May 6, 2025. This new educational center now welcomes over 200 students each year, offering artistic, theatrical, personal development, and vocational workshops.
In partnership with CEVA Logistics, the Foundation also launched a three-year logistics training program in April 2025. This 160-hour course trains 60 young people annually in core logistics skills such as handling, warehousing, and distribution.

The center also hosts a bakery and pastry school.

American Red Cross

In 2023, the Foundation  joined the American Red Cross’s “Annual Disaster Giving Program », committing financial and logistical support to strengthen the organization’s capacity to assist vulnerable communities. This partnership leverages the CMA CGM Group’s industrial resources and logistics expertise to support the Red Cross’s missions across the U.S.

Salvation Army

In 2023, the CMA CGM Foundation launched the “Giving Across North America” (GANA) initiative in partnership with The Salvation Army to fight food insecurity. This first edition enabled the distribution of 133,000 meals across the U.S. and Canada.
Building on this success, the Foundation significantly expanded the initiative in 2024, transforming it into a major annual campaign to distribute more than 500,000 meals each year in five major U.S. cities: Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Norfolk, and Miami.
More than 150 CMA CGM Group staff members support these meal distribution events as volunteers throughout the year.

Americares

In 2024, Americares joined the Foundation’s Containers of Hope program. This partnership provides free transport of 100 containers per year of essential medicines and medical supplies for communities affected by poverty or natural disasters. With this support, Americares expands its reach to 4,000 hospitals and health centers worldwide.

In India, access to education, nutrition, and healthcare remains a challenge, especially for the millions of children living in slums of Mumbai. In response, the CMA CGM Foundation has developed 10 socio-educational centers in partnership with Child Rights and You (CRY) and Salaam Baalak Trust. Located in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of Mumbai, these centers welcome nearly 2,800 children and offer educational, nutritional, sports, and psychological support.

In 2021, the Foundation also carried out its first humanitarian airlift to India, delivering eight oxygen production units during the COVID-19 crisis.

As the historic and family homeland of the CMA CGM Group, Lebanon is a major focus of the Foundation, particularly in response to the multiple crises facing the country. The Foundation delivers critical humanitarian and educational support in partnership with local and leading international organizations.

In Vietnam, the Foundation partnered with Enfants d’Asie to renovate three educational and social centers in Ho Chi Minh City’s disadvantaged neighborhoods of Thu Duc, Tan Phu, and the 8th District. These centers host 3,000 children and 1,000 parents, offering academic and psychosocial support.

Alongside these renovations, the CMA CGM Foundation and Enfants d’Asie organize annual sports tournaments, fostering team spirit and creating bonds between the Group’s staff members and the children supported.

In Côte d’Ivoire, the CMA CGM Foundation and the Magic System Foundation joined forces to build primary schools in remote communities.
Two schools have already been inaugurated: the first in Port Bouet (Ellokro) in 2022, welcoming nearly 200 children, and the second in Bouaké in May 2024, hosting 300 children from kindergarten to primary school. A third facility is under construction in San Pedro. Each school integrates converted containers serving as libraries and teacher rooms.

In addition, the Foundation supports four three-year scholarships for cadets at the Regional Academy of Marine Science and Technology.

In April 2025, Action Against Hunger and the CMA CGM Foundation inaugurated the first operational Pharmabox in Bangui. Field-tested since February 2025, this innovative refrigerated storage solution addresses the lack of medical cold-chain infrastructure in a country where nearly half the population – 2.8 million people – requires humanitarian assistance.
The Foundation committed to producing and deploying nine additional units in partnership with Action Against Hunger in Chad, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, and Mozambique.

The Foundation supported numerous countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. For Tunisia, it organized a maritime operation delivering 55 tonnes of medical equipment to local hospitals.