Women’s Digital Centres: women’s voices in support of other women
In our Women’s Digital Centres, we offer digital training workshops to help women access employment opportunities. In France, with the support of the French Association for the Right to Economic Initiative (ADIE), we have brought together expert advice and testimonials from women who made it as...
Art Makers: the 2020 Solidarity FabLabs Challenge has been launched!
And we’re off for the 2020 International Solidarity FabLab Challenge #Imake4MyCity! This year’s theme is “Art Makers”: in partnership with an artist or craftsperson, the challenge is to imagine and deliver a piece of work that uses at least one FabLab machine or digital tool. It’s an individual...
Making digital technology a driver of equal opportunity
All over France, the Orange Foundation helps people in difficulty to enter the digital age and achieve social and professional integration. In 2019, 50,000 of them benefit. These two films help to promote our Digital Workshops, one of our 3 integration programmes: 10,000 digital workshops,...
The digital solidarity
Give young people and women the keys to the digital world through four major digital education programs in France, Europe and Africa.
Discover our actionsEven more solidarity
As digital technology is not accessible everywhere and can not solve everything, we are moving into vital areas for particularly vulnerable audiences. We are thus taking action to promote access to health, education and culture in France, Europe and Africa.
Discover our actionsThe Orange Foundation in action
A solidarity FabLab brimming with ideas
The Château-Thierry Solidarity FabLab has come up with an idea which combines ingenuity with solidarity: training young people to use digital production tools by recycling plastic left over from 3D printing. We love it! Better digital inclusion for young people The Château-Thierry FabLab, which...
The GarageLabs take the Solidarity FabLabs to...
Our Solidarity FabLabs programme is run by associations in 16 countries in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.The aim is to remotivate underprivileged young people and school dropouts, teaching them digital manufacturing and preparing them for the jobs of tomorrow. In Spain for the past four...
A new Digital Centre in DRC
Following the Women’s Digital Centres in Bukavu and Kinshasa, we have continued to deploy our programme in The Democratic Republic of Congo with a new centre in Goma, called the Thalita Digital Centre.
The aim is to help young women to be more independent with digital technology.
The project is run in association with the Womens Worldwide Web (W4).
The Orange Book Prize in Africa is back for a...
In 2020, we bring you the second Orange Book Prize, first launched in Africa in 2019.Books entering the 2020 competition can be submitted from now until the end of November. The event, held with the support of the Institut Français, is our way of helping new literary talent and bringing it to a...
Access to employment in French Guiana
In French Guiana, we supported 20 women at our Digital Centre with the association, Les PEP Guyane. We have supported the women since 2018.
🧐 The aim is to encourage social and professional integration for young women in difficulty using digital technology. After the training, eight of the women found a job!
Digital Schools: 200,000 students can...
Not all students have the same opportunities. Some do not have access to books or certain materials, whilst others have all the educational content needed for their education. Offering digital access to education is the objective of our Digital Schools, launched 5 years ago and now deployed in...
Solidarity FabLabs: the map of supported...
Launched in 2014, the FabLabs Solidaires programme supports FabLabs projects in France and abroad. This interactive map allows you to see all the organisations and find out about the details of each project. With an international vocation, the FabLabs Solidaires programme supports 88 projects...
A Solidarity FabLab in Le Puy en Velay!
In the Haute-Loire region, we support the Solidarity FabLab at the 2nd Chance School in Le Puy en Velay, which teaches students about 3D printing.
The training manager encourages students to build small objects.
“It’s different from your average training session. The students all get to take something home with them,” explains the school’s director.
A Solidarity FabLab opening in Montreuil!
La Verrière Solidarity FabLab in Montreuil is a place for exchanging and digital creation open to all.
Young people learn how to use digital manufacturing tools, allowing them to design objects for people with disabilities.
Inauguration of a Solidarity FabLab for and by young disabled people
A unique Solidarity FabLab is being opened at the Institution JB Thierry in a former chapel. At the “Mac Gyver” FabLab, young people with autism can learn to make spare parts for wheelchairs used by children with various disabilities. The FabLab will serve as a training centre for residents giving them skills in new technology. The Solidarity FabLab team in Champagnole, Jura, will train and support those who run the centre.