ArcelorMittal Foundation founded
ArcelorMittal has recently launched the ArcelorMittal Foundation, with Felicidad Cristobal as its Managing Director, to show the Group’s commitment to sustainability in the local communities where ArcelorMittal have a presence.
The foundation has been formally incorporated on May 4 2007 by Decree of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Its scope of activities covers all of the social projects of the ArcelorMittal Group and sites over the world, with the aim of becoming the world reference in terms of social actions in order to enhance holistic development on the Planet.
The foundation’s mission is to promote ArcelorMittal’s commitment to local communities and contribute to their development in a sustainable way. The Foundation will be active in Education, Health & Science, Social Promotion & Sports, Art & Culture and Environment.
It supports many projects all over the world, for example two hospitals in Liberia, where ArcelorMittal provide medical treatment in a country lacking virtually every infrastructure, or the “Collect a Can” project in South Africa, combining environment protection, education and social promotion.
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August 14th, 2007 by DIOUF Amacodou
Thank for informing on the Mittal Foundation activities in Africa
As a NGO leader in Senegal, I’m interested to know how Foundation is working and how we can do with it.The Arcelor Mittal Investment project in our country suppose for us to look for adequat partnership on community information and sensitization and community support in the project area.
Thank and regards
Amacodou
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August 21st, 2007 by Lee Bryant
Congratulations on the blog! It is great to see that you are open to engaging your stakeholders in conversation.
Will the Foundation continue to deny the minority Bosniak population around Mittal’s Omarska mine facility their right to a Memorial Centre to commemorate the torture camp that formerly existed on the site? Given that Mittal failed to assess the site for remaining evidence of killings before re-starting production, has failed to re-employ the Bosniaks who were removed from their jobs in 1992 and also failed to keep its commitment to preserve the infamous White House on the site (a building with no commercial purpose but huge significance for survivors), I think some movement on fulfilling your former European CEO’s commitment to allow the Memorial Centre would be a good move.
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