L'OCCITANE Foundation
L'OCCITANE Foundation
The L'OCCITANE Foundation cares for sight by supporting projects that provide quality eye care to the most vulnerable worldwide. The Foundation also supports reforestation, agroforestry and endangered species preservation projects around the world that promote respect for biodiversity.
Finally, it is committed to empowering women in Burkina Faso and promoting their independence by financing projects to promote the access to education for girls with disabilities, orphans and displaced populations and supporting women in their training and entrepreneurial projects.
For more information and news on our global projects, visit our website L'OCCITANE Foundation
Caring for sight
In 2020, over 1.1 billion people in the world were blind or visual impaired, with at least another 1 billion more needed on-going access to eye care services.
However, 90% of vision loss cases are preventable or treatable.
Every year since 2002, L'OCCITANE has been raising funds and making donations to fight avoidable blindness around the world.
We have been in a partnership with UNICEF globally and supporting NGOs; The Fred Hollows Foundation (Australia), Sight Savers (Bangladesh), ORBIS (China), The Hong Kong Society For The Blind (Hong Kong), Red Cross (Kyrghyzstan), CBM Australia (Indonesia), Japanese Association Of Pediatric Ophthalmology (JAPAN), Kuala Lumpur Hospital (Malaysia), Vishaka Foundation (Myanmar). Light of Live (Taiwan).
Our goal is to provide eye care to 15 million beneficiaries worldwide.
Respecting biodiversity
To protect the natural environment it holds so dear, the L’OCCITANE Foundation supports local natural heritage conservation projects in Provence and the Mediterranean, as well as international biodiversity protection.
We have been funding projects in reforestation and protection of plant species and have been partnering with local NGOs; Pur Project (China), Technological and Higher Education Institute (Hong Kong), NPO Environmental Relations (Japan), Khorgo Ngo (Mongolia), Pur Project (South Korea), Yongzai Forestry Co (Taiwan).
Empowering women
Since the 1980s, L'OCCITANE has been working closely with women who produce shea butter in Burkina Faso.
The L'OCCITANE Foundation supports NGOs' projects for the benefit of girls and women in this country so that they can be protagonists of their own development and change. L'OCCITANE and its Foundation have supported the socio-economic development of 50,883 girls and women since 2006 by supporting education, training, and entrepreneurship projects.
Exceptionally, they are supporting emergency actions, in particular for girls and women displaced by the current insecurity situation in Burkina Faso. L'OCCITANE's objective is to support the autonomy of 60,000 women by 2025