Sustainability main projects

Main projects supported by Indesit Company:

• Restoration of Gentile da Fabriano’s “Polittico dell’Intercessione”
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    The 3-year restoration was carried out by Opificio delle Pietre Dure in collaboration with various Italian and foreign scientific bodies and thanks to funding from Indesit Company. Begun in 2003, it involved lengthy studies of materials and numerous other technical problems, co-operation with research organizations and the use of highly sophisticated technology. The “Intercession Polyptych” is currently on display at Indesit Company headquarters in Fabriano.

• Jonathan Project
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    The Jonathan - Indesit Company Project is a model for the development of social responsibility in Europe. Its aim is to reintegrate marginalized young people into society and the workplace by giving them jobs in Indesit Company factories. This was done initially, with collaboration from the Justice Ministry, in the Carinaro and Teverola plants near Caserta. In 2004 it was extended to the Melano plant (Fabriano) in Le Marche, under the aegis of the Labour Ministry.
    For its role in this project, Indesit Company was given a special mention at the 5th "Sodalitas Social Awards" (2007). Local government (Regione Campania) has since issued a "Protocol of intent" that defines the procedure and parameters to be adopted by other companies wishing to join the project. Also in 2007, Indesit Company invited major enterprises in the Fabriano district to join the Jonathan project and this has so far led to the employment of around 80 young people.
    In 2008, the Project celebrates its 10th anniversary, which Indesit Company and Associazione Jonathan are marking with the publication of a book and video in which the young people themselves tell the story of this successful social responsibility initiative.

• ChildLine
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    Through the Hotpoint brand, Indesit Company supports ChildLine, a free, round-the-clock telephone counselling service in the UK for children and adolescents at risk or in difficulty. Everyday, ChildLine gets around 2,300 calls from kids. To date, Indesit Company and its employees have raised around 600,000 Pounds through sponsoring and various fund raising initiatives.

• Istituto Paolo Ricci
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    In favour of this centre in Civitanova Marche that looks after handicapped young people, the engineering department organized a special evening, just before Christmas, including a charity bingo.

• Children in Need Today

  • The Contact Center in Peterborough was used as a branch of Children in Need Today to collect donations and raise thousands of pounds for kids. On 17/11/2006, over 100 Indesit Company employees worked unflaggingly on the phone to receive donations. And the HR department offered numerous products for a charity draw.

• Poland - grand Christmas orchestra
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    For 15 years, GOCC, Poland’s biggest charity, has been organizing a Christmas event attended by thousands of people from all over the country. Indesit Company has twice sponsored TV coverage of the event in the Lodz area.

• Brazil - Through the looking glass

  • As in previous years, home appliances were donated to the “Casa Do Menor pro Niños de Rua” in Rio de Janeiro, founded by Father Renato Chiera. The “Casa” provides support for children in need and distress.

• Spain - 1st Race against Leucodystrophy

  • Indesit Company supported the first “Race against Leucodystrophy”, which was held in Cobeña (Madrid).

• Czech Republic - Indesit Company for the handicapped

  • Indesit Company was one of the organizers of a gala event put on by the Czech Deaf Union in favour of the differently abled.

• Paul’s House

  • Indesit Company supported a project by the Community of Koinonia in Kibera (Kenya) to build a small physiotherapy centre for children recovering from pathologies involving motor, cardio-respiratory and muscular disorders.

• Movimento Italiano Casalinghe (Moica) - Indesit Company for equal opportunities

  • In 2007, the Group started collaboration with the “Italian Housewives Movement”, supporting it on issues of equal opportunities and infancy.

• FAI, Do your bit!
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    At the end of 2007, Indesit Company in collaboration with FAI (Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano) presented an environmental awareness campaign, entitled FAI la tua parte!, addressing primary and secondary schools in support of environmental education for children and their families.
    The project invites schools to produce and implement programmes of environmental action and store up the “good deeds” their students do to save water and energy and use them more effectively. These “good deeds” were translated, with support from Indesit Company, into a project to safeguard resources in a FAI property: water started to spout again, with no waste, from the four fountains in the park of Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (Rome), one of the splendid properties safeguarded by FAI.
    The Acqua&Energia project aims to improve understanding of these two resources and stimulate a sense of responsibility in children by showing how small individual actions and social trends can be vitally important. This, the first campaign, involved eight Italian cities and over 1,000 classes (over 20% of the total).