Plan and Accor become global partners

Accor, hotel and services group, and Plan, are now working together in 16 countries. The aim of the partnership is to promote child sponsorship and project funding to Accor staff, partners and guests.

Highlight of achievements to date:

• more than 1,100 children are now sponsored throughout the world by Accor staff, clients and partners
• Accor have raised in excess of €800,000 which has been used to support projects worldwide

Some of the projects Accor staff made possible:

• Indonesia: supporting tsunami survivors 
• Zambia: nutrition training
• Mali: two wells and a sports field are underway
• Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana, Senegal and Vietnam: several development programmes are underway
• Burkina Faso: building a school and kitchen gardens 
• Thailand: rebuilding eight schools in the tsunami-hit Phuket and Phang Nga regions
• Togo: construction of multimedia centre
• China: renovation of schools and an eco-tourism program
• Cambodia: building a school

More about Accor: with 160,000 people in 140 countries, Accor is the European leader and one of the world's largest groups in travel, tourism and corporate services, with two major international activities:

• hotels: over 4,000 hotels (more than 475,000 rooms) in 90 countries, casinos, travel agencies, and restaurants;
• services to corporate clients and public institutions: 21 million people in 35 countries use a broad range of services (food vouchers, people care and services, incentive, loyalty programs) engineered and managed by Accor

For more information about Accor visit their website www.accor.com

For more information about the Plan Accor partnership please contact the International Business Development Team at Plan.