Our projects

The Saint-Gobain Group has more than 167,000 employees worldwide.
Our Foundation funds community projects across the 75 countries where the Group is located.

The projects fall into two main categories:

SOCIAl housing

The construction, improvement or renovation of living spaces for People in need.

INtegraTION

Professional integration & education, particularly in the building trades, for communities in precarious situation.

So far, 352 projects have already benefitted from the Foundation's support since it was created in 2008.
We invite you to find out about some of them!

Dijon France

Banque alimentaire

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Delphine Villeret & Guillaume Grand

The Banque Alimentaire of Burgundy collects, sorts and distributes food to help the most disadvantaged people in society. This project consists of the acquisition and renovation of a larger building (1,190 sq m instead of 624 sq m) aimed at providing improved working conditions for volunteers and employees and better service for users.

Amount of funding: 50 000€

Overall cost of project: 2 550 000€

5 500 beneficiaries
Mexico City Mexico

Casa San Salvador

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Alejandra Salazar

The earthquake that struck Mexico in 2017 severely damaged the premises of NPH, which takes in children aged 12 to 16, all of whom areorphans or have been abandoned and are now living in extreme poverty. The Foundation provided NPH with the funding required to renovate its facilities.

Amount of funding: 36 200€

Overall cost of project: 36 200€

60 beneficiaries
Sisophon Cambodia

Children of the Mekong

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Sylvain Bredin

Construction of a hall of residence for young girls from low-income families to enable them to be housed in a safe environment near the university.

Amount of funding: 48 000€

Overall cost of project: 48 000€

14 beneficiaries
Burg Germany

Children’s house

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Thomas Mehle

The charity Johanniter Unfall Hilfe provides care for people of all ages. This construction project, inaugurated in May 2020, will provide accommodation for deprived families visiting children and teenagers receiving palliative care for degenerative or incurable diseases in the adjoining hospice.

Amount of funding: 80 000€

Overall cost of project: 7 500 000€

300 beneficiaries
Dabrowa Gornicza Poland

Chrześcijańskie Stowarzyszenie Dobroczynne

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Benedykt Kordula & Agnieszka Hat

Conversion of an unused school into housing for Ukrainian war refugees.

Amount of funding: 33 800€

Overall cost of project: 33 800€

100 beneficiaries
Paris France

Fondation des Femmes

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Elodie Marchand, Pascal Pons & Sophie Raphael

This project enabled the renovation and upgrading of a building for the Cité de l’Égalité et des Droits des Femmes (Women’s Equality & Rights Center), which will provide accommodation for charities supporting women survivors of gender-based and sexual violence.

Amount of funding: 80 000€

Overall cost of project: 307 000€

30 000 beneficiaries
Buftea Romania

Habitat for Humanity

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Iuliana Capris

Construction of a kitchen and canteen to facilitate access to a daily meal for the children of the Buftea Community Center.

Amount of funding: 70 000€

Overall cost of project: 194 775€

600 beneficiaries
Tamil Nadu India

Hand in Hand

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
M. Pugalenthi

The Indian NGO Hand in Hand was set up in 2002 to combat poverty in the rural communities of the Kanchipuram District (India). This project involves renovating five preschool facilities in local communities, benefitting 120 children and 500 women (pregnant or new mothers), by giving them access to a balanced diet, education and health care.

Amount of funding: 26 750€

Overall cost of project: 26 750€

620 beneficiaries
Beauvais France

L'Arche Oise

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
HENRI DUTRAY

Construction of two new intergenerational shared living homes to meet the strong need for accommodation for adults with mental disabilities in the area.

Amount of funding : 70 000€

Overll cost of project : 3 130 629€

14 beneficiaries
Rio de Janeiro Brazil

LITRO DE LUZ

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Daniel FAUST

This project aims to install infrastructure to bring lighting to houses and streets in disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro. The non-profit has succeeded in installing 100 "solar bottles" in homes and another 400 in streets, while getting local communities involved in the project.

Amount of funding: 29 138€

Overall cost of project: 29 138€
Beirut Lebanon

Offre Joie Beirut Rising

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
EMMANUEL JACQUOT

Rehabilitation and securing of 44 weakened buildings within two neighborhoods affected by the Beirut harbor explosion on August 4, 2020.

Amount of funding : 85 000€

Montant global du projet : 3 000 000€

711 beneficiaries
São Paulo Brazil

Re-juntar project

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
RAQUEL LINARES COUTO

Renovation of housing for families in very precarious situations to allow children to be reintegrated into the family home when they were placed in foster care.

Amount of funding : 90 000€

Overall cost of project : 90 000€

20 beneficiaries
Paris France

SOLIDARITY AND INTEGRATION SPACE FOR WOMEN

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Dominique Pépin

The Philanthropic Society has initiated an accommodation project for isolated, vulnerable women. The site also includes a day centre for women in very precarious situations who need to take time out to relax in a safe, friendly environment. It will open from Tuesday to Saturday, 261 days a year.

Amount of funding: 80 000€

Overall cost of project: 1 362 000€

400 beneficiaries
Le Poët-Laval France

Sport dans la Ville

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Nicolas Reboul

Construction of a vacation and training center for young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods to enable them to go on vacation outside their neighborhoods, but also to offer them training in the hospitality, hotel and restaurant trades.

Amount of funding: 100 000€

Overall cost of project: 5 000 000€

1 500 beneficiaries
Douai France

The Carmel Garden

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Projet anniversaire pour les 10 ans de la Fondation

The Habitat et Humanisme non-profit has created an intergenerational residence with a strong social vocation in a repurposed convent. It is a place of social diversity where people of different walks of life / life experiences are encouraged to help each other.
All the various inhabitants, which include isolated elderly people, single-parent families, young people on integration schemes and students, share common areas such as the kitchen, the laundry room and the gardens.

Amount of funding: 47 943€

Overall cost of project: 3 480 000€
Paris France

UNITY CUBE

Social housing
Sponsor(s)
Romain Pham

The charity UNITY CUBE has developed a new type of emergency accommodation by using old pallets to create housing modules (sleeping and sanitary). The ultimate goal of this project is to install its modules in unused offices for use by homeless people.

Amount of funding: 20 000€

Overall cost of project: 150 000€

50 beneficiaries

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Romania Habitat for Humanity

The foundation funds community projects

SOCIAl housing

INtegraTION

Dijon France

Banque alimentaire

Mexico City Mexico

Casa San Salvador

Sisophon Cambodia

Children of the Mekong

Burg Germany

Children’s house

Dabrowa Gornicza Poland

Chrześcijańskie Stowarzyszenie Dobroczynne

Paris France

Fondation des Femmes

Buftea Romania

Habitat for Humanity

Tamil Nadu India

Hand in Hand

Beauvais France

L'Arche Oise

Rio de Janeiro Brazil

LITRO DE LUZ

Beirut Lebanon

Offre Joie Beirut Rising

São Paulo Brazil

Re-juntar project

Paris France

SOLIDARITY AND INTEGRATION SPACE FOR WOMEN

Le Poët-Laval France

Sport dans la Ville

Douai France

The Carmel Garden

Paris France

UNITY CUBE