Worldline - Registration Document 2016

Corporate and social responsibility report Annex III - Being an ethical and fair good player in business

publish adverts to find these children. with the RedBus project, provides multimedia services to help missing children. To support this cause, Worldline, in partnership received support from Worldline to help families search for their In Argentina, the Argentina’s missing Children organization toys, food etc. Worldline also supports Catalysts for Social Action In India, employees also made in-kind donations such as clothes, through nutrition, health, education, personal development etc. which promotes child welfare and facilitates social change family backgrounds and behavioral disorders. psycho-social education of children and teenagers with difficult is a social project run by the Catholic Church that focuses on the Monikahaus family center, via its Frankfurt site, since 1999. This In Germany, Worldline has been supporting children from the children and teenagers. Many projects were made possible as a institution offers care and in-patient and out-patient services to Brand project from Worldline’s Aix-La-Chapelle site. This In addition, donations were made to the Kinder- und Jugendhilfe work in their free time. or employees acting on a voluntary basis and doing unpaid result of employees being made available during working hours, and wellbeing initiatives via the local charities and NGOs that Worldline and its employees are very actively involved in health healthcare so as to improve people’s quality of life. Worldline has worldwide to fund research and provide access to better has a presence. The Worldline Group raises funds across its sites form part of the local fabric of the countries where the Company are organized worldwide: support of this cause and many initiatives linked to such issues also developed innovative solutions to facilitate donations in by mobile devices free of charge during the national campaign payment gateway for donations made by credit cards online or a faithful partner of Téléthon, providing its multi-channel secure Téléthon. This great solidarity initiative is possible thanks to different Worldline sites in France, and the proceeds are paid to fund-raising activities are also organized by employees at led by AFM-Téléthon. Within the scope of this partnership, every year. organizing committee, who help make the event a success employees’ involvement: about 40 volunteers are on the For example, in France, for the last 18 years, Worldline has been money for Téléthon, to promote a feeling of solidarity within the in France with Donation Boxes, an innovative idea to raise with microDON, provided employees at the majority of its sites During one week in December 2016, Worldline, in partnership with massive involvement by Worldline employees, both in (nationwide) via contactless NFC bank cards, was a real success to make it easier to collect donations for the 2016 Téléthon Company through € 3 micro-donations. This initiative, designed major first for Worldline employees, who had the opportunity to setting up the initiative and in collecting donations. This was a test out a product in-house with a solidarity-based objective. develop the concept on a larger scale. Worldline plans to repeat this experience in 2017 and aims to illness Organizing to combat disease and A.4.2.2.4

Moreover, in the other countries where Worldline operates, Worldline Social Engagement and citizenship approach. and are described below through the other drivers of the other social initiatives are undertaken to support the good cause

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Supporting education

around their local communities in order to ensure the equal knowledge, skills and expertise of the IT industry in schools examples of activities implemented in different countries are: access to education and fight against social exclusion. Some Worldline employees volunteer their time and share their organization in France, Énergie Jeunes, whose primary aim is to Since 2011, Worldline has had a partnership with a non-profit Worldline are volunteering and work with secondary schools their studies, thus fighting a sense of “failure”. Employees of areas. Another objective is to encourage them to persevere with fight school drop-out in secondary schools located in deprived Worldline’s main office in France. located in deprived areas, in particular those surrounding In addition, Worldline Malaysia counts with long term employment. order to build opportunities for internships and permanent relations with the UTAR (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman) in involvement in community partnerships in a way to strengthen ago by Worldline to encourage the social engagement of France, named the “Jury Associatif” has been launched 5 years Last but not least, another initiative that has been developed in time to contribute to their social engagement. In 2016 the main rewards the projects eligible by offering to the project owners associative projects that have a societal dimension. Worldline Worldline employees who are involved or wish to be involved in experience and testify to the importance to include women in Worldline employees went to some schools to talk about their related to women empowerment on education. For instance, activities that have been sponsored by the Company were companies. the technical areas and lead their careers in IT and innovative Worldline launches and promotes initiatives to raise funds to Early years is a key theme of Worldline’s corporate social protection services and even health and education services. Company and its employees lend their support to child help sick children or those living in deprived areas. The climb the highest mountain in Kenya to raise funds to help the team of Worldline employees in the UK (London site) set off to in low-income or developing countries. By way of illustration, a have a go at computer programming. awareness of, the digital world. The children were also able to took part in a school visit to develop interest in, and raise most deprived children. Other employees from the Beeston site Railway children Charity which raises funds to support children worldwide: In the UK, Worldline employees are involved in the Many of initiatives linked to such issues are organized Looking out for children A.4.2.2.3 responsibility.

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