Transat renews partnership with SOS Children’s Villages

Transat has renewed its partnership with the international charity SOS Children’s Villages, which helps orphaned and abandoned children around the world. Since 2009, $862,000 has been donated to SOS Children’s Villages thanks to fundraising campaigns by Transat employees and customers, as well as contributions by the company. Through their villages, SOS provides vulnerable children with a loving and secure family environment. They are cared for by SOS “mothers”who come from the local community and have received in-depth training. These surroundings enable children to benefit from individualized long-term love and support until they reach adulthood. “Our partnership with SOS Children’s Villages is an extremely important one for Transat, and strengthens our commitment to children, international aid and sustainable tourism,”says Jean-Marc Eustache, president and chief executive officer of Transat. “Our association with this organization is a source of pride for all employees of Transat and its business units, because it enables us to create and sustain a feeling of team commitment to corporate responsibility and, especially, to help ensure that an organization we admire succeeds in its mission.”Transat first partnered with SOS Children’s Villages in the fall of 2009 following a vote among its employees, making it the first humanitarian cause to be embraced across the entire organization, and affirming the company’s commitment to improving the lives of children in its destination countries. Transat works with SOS Children’s Villages in the majority of its source markets, including Canada, France, the United Kingdom and Greece, and is currently supporting 12 projects in nine countries — Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, Vietnam, Tunisia and Zambia. (http://www.transat.com)