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Frédéric Van Heems, CEO of Veolia Eau France In April 2020, an online Synergy Meeting was organized, bringing together all the main actors of the LP4Y entities. It was the right time and place to discuss tomorrow's challenges. Frédéric Van Heems, the first president of LP4Y Paris, CEO of Veolia Eau France, shared with us his vision of tomorrow’s world, his expectations and how he envisages the role of companies in the future. Jérôme Lemouchoux, Sodexo's CEO shares with us their vision of the type of management the companies will adopt in the future.

Carlos Walter, biomedical engineer, General Electric Hi all! I’m Carlos Walter, a Mexican Biomedical Engineer doing a Leadership program in General Electric Healthcare. You probably wonder what my story is doing here. I do so too. A couple of months after I joined GE, I was invited to a call where they needed volunteers for a project that was changing the world for a lot of people. I decided to join to understand what they meant by “changing the world” and how I could contribute. As soon as they started, they introduced LP4Y, how they operate, what they do, and how they are, with no question, changing the world. I immediately wanted to be in, I wanted to be a part of such an amazing project. I wanted to help change the world. The way I did that was by creating educational content for the Youth centers, along with a great group of volunteers from all over the world, connected by one common thing; we were all employees of General Electric who wanted to collaborate with LP4Y. I started creating one small introduction to public speaking and storytelling, which is, at least in my opinion, one of the most important skills that need to be developed. Once I got started, I realized a brief introduction was not going to be enough, so I decided to create a couple sessions for the topic. The result was a five-session program with different topics, all related to the selected skills. The rest of the volunteers also created amazing programs for different skills, like how to create a CV, Excel skills, brand management, among others. The content that we created was going to be used with the instructors in centers welcoming the Youth. Unfortunately though, a new world crisis that is reshaping everything we used to know started; the pandemic known as COVID-19. Because of this, LP4Y, along with the team that coordinated GE volunteers, had to work fast to try to adapt to these new conditions. I was lucky enough to be invited as part of the amazing team that works directly with LP4Y and coordinates volunteers from GE, a small team of real-life heroes within the company that calls themselves “Youthful team”. We started working on switching the content we had created, as well as some other content created by the incredible pedagogy team from LP4Y, into digital programs that can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection. More volunteers joined the cause, and they are currently working hard to create the programs on the digital platform and creating new content for the youth. It has been an amazing opportunity, and I am grateful every day, both for being able to volunteer for the Youth Team and the LP4Y organization. I can say, with no question, that this whole experience and collaboration has changed my world for the better. We still don’t know what the effect of COVID will be in everyone’s lives, but one thing we know for sure is that, by doing this small actions, and having the courses on a digital platform, we are becoming participants of the actions that are making the world a better place, with the Youth Team and LP4Y leading the change.

Rohit Gupta, 19yo, Stars Treasuer Stars Club Runa Naskar Mondal, 24 yo, Stars President of the Stars Club Aniket Singh, 21yo, Stars Kajal Shaw, 20 y.o, Stars India "Hello everyone,1 year before we opened Howrah center and after 1 year finally we opened a Stars club group. On Friday 17th, July 2020 in this group we are the first 5 members of the Stars Club. Runa Naskar Mondal, Aniket Singh, Kajal Shaw, Rohit Gupta, Tapasi Nath. Before that day we came in the center, on Wednesday 15th, July 2020, we did a meeting with coaches to organise what to do and what we need to purchase and who is doing what on the D-day. This is how we anticipate an event! On 17th of July, we came to the center at 5 pm for decoration and at 6pm the ceremony started. During that time everybody learned what a Stars Club is, also we did a motivational speech to explain why we are motivated to join the Stars Club. And we have graduation on that time after the graduation we have election time to elect the people for President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary. This day we only elected 2 persons : Runa Naskar as a President and Rohit Gupta as a Treasurer. After elections we had a little dinner party and after we came back home with our new polo and our certificate of membership and full of new challenges in LP4Y that we will face together. "

Jérôme Lemouchoux, president of LP4Y Belgium & CEO at Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services Belgium In April 2020, an online Synergy Meeting was organized, bringing together all the main actors of the LP4Y entities. It was the right time and place to discuss tomorrow's challenges. Jérôme Lemouchoux, one of the first members of the Youth Inclusion Network in the Philippines, currently president of LP4Y Belgium, and CEO at Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services Belgium, shared with us his vision of tomorrow’s world, his expectations and how he envisages the role of companies in the future. Following are selected excerpts of his speech. “Profit is necessary but becomes a means to an end, rather than an end in itself". “With the crisis that we are facing, it is urgent that we reinvent the role and management of companies. Profit is necessary, but becomes a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. Everyone is in search of meaning. Companies in the future will also have to clearly define their purpose, motivation, raison d’etre. I think that those who continue to focus solely on profit will disappear. Because consumers are tomorrow’s leaders and they will make choices. Because companies will have to recruit talent, and talent will go to companies that make sense. “Workers will expect companies to continue to provide them with training throughout their careers” To succeed, companies must support employability and attract talent. Our world is in constant evolution, Youth are threatened but also have a lot of opportunities, if they are prepared for the right jobs. Workers will expect companies to continue to provide them with training throughout their careers, developing soft skills and curiosity. “For companies to perform well in the future, they must rely on collective intelligence” For too long now, companies have been working in pyramidal mode. For companies to perform well in the future, they must rely on collective intelligence, on organizations shaped via networks, with transversal projects, and trust in teams working towards a clear mission.” Frédéric Van Heems, CEO of Veolia Eau France, shares with us his vision of the type of management the companies will adopt in the future.

Debajyoti Paul co-founder of Cubic Jobs in Kolkata India Greetings from Cubic Jobs .... First of all, Thank you so much for this opportunity to share my view regarding the experiences I had with LP4Y ( Howrah) till now. This is not only about passing a testimonial, this is also about the good experiences and knowledge I gathered from LP4Y. "It has been a great pleasure for me to be a part of LP4Y Howrah Center as a Partner. The greetings from the Coaches and the Youths are very pleasant and overwhelming every time I meet them. It has been a great experience so far for me to see the center and learn about LP4Y's pedagogy. Both the Youths and the Coaches are very supportive and the sessions were very interactive and professional one. The concept of LP4Y of training the Youth for the Job Sector is very interesting and helpful too. As in the present scenario, having a good job is very important. But many job seekers face many problems while applying for a job. LP4Y trains them properly and works on their personality, communication, knowledge & skill sets and guide them properly so that they can land into their dream job. Being from the HR domain I hope the experiences, knowledge about the job market and mock Interviews which I have shared with the Youths has helped and guided them properly to find a right job after their session end. I was asked to take an online mock interview session during this Covid-19 situation, where I found the Youth were very tech savvy, comfortable and professional during the whole online mock session which was very positive. The Coaches have given proper guidance about the online session which has helped me to conduct the mock interview properly. I'm very glad that Carla & Laura invited me as a Partner and allowed me to be a part of this beautiful journey. Will love to attend more sessions in the future with the Youth and the Coaches as learning never ends. The Simple Logic which I have learned from LP4Y is “You have to be proactive while designing your identity cum career to have a happy life”.

Anaëlle Azoulay, co-founder of Azickia Foundation AZICKIA FOUNDATION is a new partner of LP4Y. Anaëlle Azoulay, co-founder, explains the reasons she chose to support the Youth from LPC Payatas. Azickia is a young French foundation – set up as a Fonds de dotation in France in 2019 – with a mission to reduce inequalities in the world, to strengthen social cohesion, and to promote exchange and solidarity. We have chosen to support 3 UN Sustainable Development Goals: access to good health and well-being, access to quality education and gender equality. Thanks to our Foundation and our online magazine, we finance projects with a strong social impact and highlight the many solutions and changemakers addressing our world’s biggest social issues. Through our foundation, we support projects that share our values and ambitions, with a high social impact and an empowerment approach, to create sustainable change. We launched our first Call for Projects early this year and received a lot of applications, more than we expected ! It was a very tough choice for us as if we could have, we would have loved to support as many projects as possible. For this year, we chose four very different projects, each focusing on one or more of the three Sustainable Development Goals we chose to support and with an impact in various countries around the world. Each of these four projects takes an innovative approach to solidarity, with the ambition to enable each and everyone to master their destiny and shape their own future. LP4Y and the more specific project we chose to support with them in Payatas, Philippines, was one of the four projects we selected. We have many selection criteria but the most important one relates to this essential notion of empowerment. LP4Y applied to receive funding for one specific project – PayataSport - located in the Philippines and dedicated to the inclusion of Young women and mothers living in poverty. It was clear that the main mission of this project was to enable these Young women to get lifted out of poverty notably through education and training, but more importantly through a holistic approach to the person and its needs. The important role given to entrepreneurship throughout the whole LP4Y pedagogy was also of interest to us as our foundation is also quite new and we believe it is essential to make room for everyone's creativity, ambition and life goals. Moreover, the discussions and phone interview I had with the LP4Y team was very honest and transparent whether it was about their social mission and goals or the difficulties that they had recently faced with COVID-19. This honest conversation and the team’s invitation to the LP4Y General Assembly all the more confirmed the strong commitment of the whole community and people working for and with LP4Y. Lastly, at Azickia, we are also developing our online « solutions magazine ». Each week, we publish insightful and inspiring articles on health, education and gender equality. These Stories are written by and for committed people, always addressed from a solutions perspective with the aim to help better understand these important social issues, to encourage tolerance, inspire action and improve the world we live in. We are therefore very excited to collaborate with LP4Y to support this reintegration project for Young women in Payatas as well as spread a wider hopeful message through future collaborative Stories that we will work on together with each project we selected. Our new website will also be live in a few days and will enable anyone interested in these four projects including LP4Y to make a direct donation.

Pascaline Griffon, Head of business services CCI France Myanmar, Myanmar My name is Pascaline Griffon, I am Head of Business Services at CCI France Myanmar. As the French Myanmar Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FMCCI), our objectives are to support the development of our members (French, Myanmar and international companies), to help foreign companies settle in Myanmar and to develop economic relations between France and Myanmar. LP4Y team came to us in 2019 to explain their project and to see how we could collaborate. At FMCCI, we strongly believe in equal opportunities, we think that it is also part of our objectives to help the Youth, to develop their skills and to improve their chance to have access not only to employment but to fulfilling jobs. LP4Y gave us a chance to enhance our work on those matters. With more than 150 members, FMCCI is a great way to spread information and awareness about LP4Y. Therefore, we have sent an email to our network to present the association and give our members the opportunity to contribute to this remarkable project. In addition, we have organized a visit of FMCCI office for the Youth, during which FMCCI team members (including myself) have made presentations in relation with our respective jobs to give the Youth some useful tips and information about recruitment, management, and marketing. After that, the Youth presented us their microbusiness projects. It was a great learning experience for both sides, and we intend to renew it as soon as the situation allows us to welcome visitors again. Following my presentation on how to prepare a CV, a cover letter, and a job interview, I have decided to volunteer on a personal basis on weekends to help the Youth in their job research mainly by training them for job interviews. Besides preparing them, mock interviews are always a great occasion to discuss their professional projects, to see if there could be any opportunity with CCI France Myanmar’s members. Indeed, FMCCI is a good networking platform for job research and some of our members are already invested in LP4Y association by offering the Youth internships or jobs opportunities within their companies. CCI France Myanmar has a strong focus on HR support, so we plan to develop a win-win collaboration that could be beneficial for both LP4Y and our members.

Guylaine Hor, French expat in Dehli, former LP4Y volunteer, from August 2017 - June 2020 [French version below] In August 2016, Philippe, my husband, and I, arrived in Delhi for our first expatriation with family. I had followed him and I wanted to make sense of our experience in India. So I asked our predecessor at the AFD (French Development Agency) for a list of NGOs that would be looking for a profile like mine with experience in development projects. LP4Y was on the top of the list. I visited the Life Project Center (LPC) of Paharganj and then the one of Sangam Vihar in early 2017. I first intervened as an outside trainer in English. I immediately felt a strong admiration for the Youth, for their journey, their strength, their humility, their courage and their progress. I was seduced by the LP4Y pedagogy : in addition to giving them professional opportunities, the goal is to participate in the personal development of each Youth. That’s the real meaning of development for me ! Lastly, I was very impressed by the effective ecosystem set up around the Young Adults and of course by the very good results obtained on the field in terms of social and professional inclusion. In two years of volunteering, I had the chance to work with the Young Adults alongside LP4Y team : I was a trainer in English and a support for resumes preparation, mock interviews, research on a business sector, preparation of the Entrepreneurs Day and of the Life Project Plan Presentations of the Youth - two of which could take place at our place in Delhi. I assisted the teams on the follow-up of expenses, worked on the impact figures and the establishment of certain control panels. I had the chance to meet all the South Asia team during the Welcome Weeks - the two-weeks training given by LP4Y when new Catalysts arrive) and the two seminars I attended. I enjoyed evolving in such a dynamic, motivated and innovative team. Being very involved in the French expatriate community in New Delhi on a daily basis, I was able to connect key contacts in my network, business leaders or others, with LP4Y Philippe also received a whole batch of Youth from Delhi in 2017 in the premises of Proparco (subsidiary of the AFD, which participates in the financing and support of companies, financial institutions and social investment funds in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East) as part of a “company visit” during which the Young Adults were able to interact with the employees. Since June 2020, we definitely left India and on this occasion it seemed important to us to give back to this country all that it had allowed us to live. I wished to thank particularly the Youth for giving and teaching me so much. Moreover, for several months, the associations as LP4Y working in the service of the most vulnerable have been impacted in their mission and the Young Adults who follow the program have suffered in their daily life during these months of lockdown and the resulting economic recession. We therefore decided, in consultation with the Communication, Fundraising & Partnership LP4Y team, to open an online donation box to which all our friends in Delhi and all those who came to see us during our 4 years in India, were invited to contribute as a leaving gift. In a few weeks, we have acquired more than 1640 euros ! An amount allocated to finance LP4Y projects in India. Today we are moving to other horizons, far from Delhi, but we want to stay close to LP4Y and its actions. To all the Youth I had the chance to meet, know and interact with : “ You gave me a great lesson of life, humility and resilience. I leave India personally grown by everything you taught me. You are part of my most beautiful encounters in Delhi. DHANYAVAAD - THANK YOU !!! ” Here is what was published at NL 16 (page 25) in May 2018. En Août 2016, Philippe, mon mari, et moi-même arrivions sur Delhi pour notre première expatriation en famille. Je l’avais suivi et je voulais donner du sens à notre expérience en Inde. J’ai donc demandé à notre prédécesseur à l’Agence Française de Développement (AFD) une liste des ONG qui seraient à la recherche d’un profil comme le mien, ayant de l’expérience dans les projets de développement. LP4Y était en haut de cette liste ☺. J’ai visité le Life Project Center (LPC) de Paharganj puis celui de Sangam Vihar début 2017. Je suis d’abord intervenue, en tant formatrice extérieure en anglais. J’ai tout de suite ressenti une forte admiration pour les Jeunes, pour leurs parcours, leur force, leur humilité, leur courage et leurs progrès. J’ai été séduite par la pédagogie de LP4Y : en plus de leur donner des opportunités professionnelles, l’objectif est de participer à l’évolution personnelle de chacun d’entre eux. C’est pour moi le vrai sens du développement ! Enfin En deux ans de bénévolat, j’ai eu la chance de travailler auprès des Jeunes aux côtés des j’ai été très impressionnée par l’écosystème efficace mis en place autour des Jeunes et évidemment par les très bons résultats obtenus sur le terrain en termes d’inclusion sociale et professionnelle. En deux ans de bénévolat, j’ai eu la chance de travailler auprès des Jeunes aux côtés des équipes LP4Y: J’ai été formatrice en anglais et support pour l'élaboration des CVs, préparation aux entretiens d'embauche, recherches sur le secteur d'activité des entreprises, préparation des Entrepreneurs' Day et des Life Project Plan Presentation - dont deux ont pu avoir lieu chez nous à Delhi. J’ai assisté les équipes sur le suivi des dépenses, travaillé sur les chiffres d’impact et la mise en place de certains tableaux de contrôle. J’ai eu la chance de rencontrer toutes les équipes d’Asie du Sud au cours des Welcome Weeks (les deux semaines de formation dispensées par LP4Y à l’arrivée des nouveaux Catalystes) et des deux séminaires que j’ai suivis. Évoluer au sein d’une équipe si dynamique, motivée et innovante m’a énormément plu. Etant au quotidien très impliquée dans la communauté d’expatriés français à New Delhi, j’ai pu mettre en relation des contacts clefs de mon réseau, chefs d'entreprise ou autres, avec LP4Y. Philippe a également reçu toute la promotion de Delhi de 2017 dans les locaux de Proparco (filiale de l'Agence Française de Développement, qui participe au financement et à l'accompagnement d'entreprises, d'institutions financières et de fonds d'investissement social en Afrique, en Asie, en Amérique Latine et au Moyen Orient) dans le cadre d’une “company visit” durant laquelle les Jeunes ont pu échanger avec les employés. Depuis Juin 2020, nous avons quitté définitivement l’Inde et à cette occasion il nous est apparu important de.rendre à ce pays tout ce qu'il nous avait permis de vivre. J’ai souhaité remercier tout particulièrement les Jeunes pour m’avoir tant apporté et enseigné. De plus, depuis plusieurs mois, les associations comme LP4Y travaillant au service des plus démunis ont été impactées dans leur mission et les jeunes qui suivent le programme ont souffert dans leur quotidien durant ces mois de confinement et la récession économique qui en a découlé. Nous avons donc décidé, en concertation avec l’équipe Communication, Fundraising & Partnership LP4Y , d’ouvrir une boite à dons en ligne où tous nos amis de Delhi et tous ceux qui sont venus nous voir pendant nos 4 années indiennes, ont été invité à contribuer en guise de cadeau de départ. En quelques semaines, nous avons obtenu plus de 1 640 euros ! Une somme allouée au financement des projets de LP4Y en Inde. Aujourd’hui, nous partons vers d’autres horizons, loin de Delhi mais nous souhaitons rester proches de LP4Y et de ses actions. A tous les Jeunes que j’ai eu la chance de rencontrer, connaître et côtoyer  : “ Vous m’avez donné une belle leçon de vie, d’humilité et de résilience. Je pars de l’Inde grandie de tout ce que vous m’avez enseigné. Vous faites partie de mes plus belles rencontres sur Delhi. DHANYAVAAD –MERCI !!! ”

Manoj Kr Dash, CEO of IVN (Integrated Volunteer Network), India Integrated Volunteers Network (IVN) and Life Project 4 Youth (LP4Y) have jointly implemented Home2Home Volunteering in Raipur, Chhattisgarh State of India. 12 volunteers took responsibility of volunteering from their Home to 30 Homes (families) from their community of concern to facilitate emergency communication & coordination during the lockdown period to fight against COVID19. Objective was to integrate the voluntary power of India in fighting against the COVID19 through Home2Home volunteering services over digital platforms for proper and effective communication and emergency aid. Major Responsibilities were : spreading authentic and vernacular communications on COVID 19 to the target families and reduce rumors and fake news, sharing the Helpline numbers for COVID 19 & important services, ensuring that safety guidelines are being followed by the targeted families, helping in taking the emergency call from the targeted families to support for their health and food requirements, enabling the targeted family to assess common interactive platforms from their Home and help them to find better ways to engage during homestay and documenting the memories of targeted families. It was initiated with online registration of 12 volunteers. Volunteers were trained online and they completed an Online Certificate Course. Everyday authentic and vernacular communication was sent in H2HV Whatsapp group. Further those messages were disseminated to concerned families. Emergency health care and food service were provided by national core team from whomsoever request was raised. More than 100 families were registered online using google form. Volunteers had series of interactions and discussions with registered families. Family Engagement tools and indicators helped strengthen family bond and enhanced relationship. Each weekend there were regular discussions with the H2HVolunteers to listen to their inspiring actions, ground zero happenings, needs and planning for the next week. Special feature of volunteer were their committed effort in spreading message in their localities, distribution of dry ration from panchayat and distribution of dry ration from FreeRationDiya etc. All the volunteers' effort will be recognized with certificate and further best volunteers will be felicitated during India Volunteer Day Award Ceremony. Their stories will be published in Voice of India Volunteer monthly newsletter. IVN would like to sincerely thank Pauline and the 12 volunteers for their commendable volunteering effort. IVN always believes in the philosophy that collaboration helps in better implementation of programs at the grass root level as we leverage on strength on each other. It was wonderful to collaborate with LP4Y and I am looking forward for more such collaborative work in future.

Ebenezer Sudhaharan, program Leader in Oasis, Chennai (India) Ebenezer Sudhaharan, a Program Leader in Oasis, in Chennai, shares with us his experience of work with the LP4Y Youth during the COVID-19 crisis. The Covid-19 was scary for everyone, and along with it came the lockdown which became a bigger challenge for all rural and urban poor communities. Without jobs and income for days, the migrant populations started walking back to their natives and the urban poors began rationing their food supplies so that they could feed their family at least once a day. In this situation, I witnessed a group of youths from LP4Y rising up above these odds to help their community in every way possible. I was really challenged to see their commitment and their support in helping serve the community better. Thanks to the Coaches and our existing relationship with LP4Y we were able to work together in this difficult situation. I was involved in networking with a few Non profit organizations working in the Kannaginagar community and was able to get support from few organizations to distribute ration kits and face masks. In the month of April, on the 11th we were able to distribute ration kits to 22 families (sponsored by Goodness Foundation) with the help of 4 Youth/Stars, on the 21st we were able to distribute 700 masks (sponsored by Roshni Trust), again with the help of 4 Youth/Stars, on the 23rd we were able to distribute ration kit to 380 families with the help of 6 Youth/Stars. During these distributions, the volunteers were involved in writing names, getting signatures, managing the beneficiaries, distributing tokens, taking photos etc… As Oasis we appreciate the support rendered to us through the Youth/Stars of LP4Y. LP4Y has been systematically playing an active role in creating agents of change in the community through their coaching and programmes. I have personally seen and heard the challenges the coaches go through in the community and their sacrifice towards these Youth has been yielding good fruits and the Youth who graduate and become Stars (Alumni of the program) became more confident and are equipped enough to face the challenges they encounter both in their career and in general day-to-day living. I would like to thank LP4Y and the team for their contribution towards the development of this community.

Sumit Singh, Rugby & SRFA Leader, Decathlon Atria (Mumbai) My name is Sumit Singh, I am a Rugby & SRFA City Leader in Decathlon Atria Mumbai. Decathlon and LP4Y are partners for many years in India and have developed a lot of different initiatives regarding the professional inclusion for excluded Youth. This pandemic situation forced us to stop our activities but it helped us to develop new ideas like organizing a digital workshop with different organizations who are working with excluded Youth. This idea turns into reality and we had a wonderful digital workshop, jointly conducted by Decathlon along with LP4Y and Khelo Rugby (a non-governmental organization based in Kolkata) The basic motto behind this workshop was to motivate the Youth and connect them across the culture. The reason why we chose LP4Y and Khelo Rugby is because these two organizations share the same goal as we also do : guiding and developing the younger generation to be the leaders of tomorrow. The result has been a workshop gathering 50 Youths ! The participants have been separated in groups of five and certain questions were asked to them, like "what keeps you focused in life while also dealing with problems?" or "how do you motivate yourself to get work done even after failing again and again?" Through this workshop, the Young adults got motivated and started believing more in themselves as we could see the smiling faces at the end of the workshop. Moreover, it was the opportunity to develop their IT skills by using a video conference application and practised their professional behaviour. In these harsh pandemic conditions, we are happy that through this kind of workshop we could bring a glimpse of a smile on their face.

The encounter between Barry Howe and Cecile de Lacvivier from Alstom with LP4Y, in Bengaluru. Barry Howe : Hello. I’m Barry Howe, the Secretary General of the Alstom Corporate Foundation. I first came across LP4Y back in 2017 during a familiarization visit to its project in New Delhi. I was very impressed by the work being done there to give young ladies from highly disadvantaged environments a chance of securing a decent job as a first step on a career ladder. A decent job with decent pay which could, in time, make them financially independent. Selecting these ladies; securing their family’s permission and support; paying them some subsistence allowance for their participation; teaching them English; training them for work in a business; helping them to secure a first job that would take advantage of these new skills – this is all within the remit of LP4Y and they are very good at it. Subsequently, I was delighted when, in 2018, LP4Y submitted a project for funding to the Alstom Foundation. Alstom funds were to support the development of a Life Project Centre (LPC), an incubator for entrepreneurial projects, in Devara Jeevana Halli slum area in Bengaluru, which would enable 30 Young women per year to be accompanied towards their social and professional integration. Young women and mothers in this area have almost no opportunities to obtain life-skills based education or training and thus enhance their chances to get hired. This is why LP4Y chose to build an LPC in this zone. Specifically, the Alstom Foundation funds supported the reconstruction of the building - constructing the upper floor and an annex building in front of the centre. The work started in November 2018 and was completed a year later. What was especially appealing from the Alstom Foundation’s perspective was the proximity of the project site to locations in Bengaluru where Alstom has a major presence and several thousand employees. This gave rise to opportunities for volunteering amongst the Alstom staff in support of the LPC. I will therefore hand over to my colleague Cecile de-Lacvivier, who is working in Bangalore and who has participated in some of these volunteering activities. Cécile de Lacvivier : Thank you Barry! I am Cecile de Lacvivier, Head of Talent Management in India since 2019. I am an engineer and I have been working for Alstom for more than 10 years now, in different fields like Quality, Innovation, Training, HR. I met LP4Y teams in Bengaluru for their Entrepreneur Day, in January 2020 and I have been impressed by the energy and courage of these young ladies. How they were able to be on the stage in front of a public and present their projects/ stories was amazing. Unfortunately, our Alstom offices are quite far from their location in Bengaluru and the Covid crisis started, so it was difficult to propose any job. However, in order to prepare them to find a job, we decided to organise remote mock interviews with our recruiters’ team. For the future, we would like to continue our partnership with LP4Y, extend it to all our locations where LP4Y is present and share testimonies from our female employees on site to help the youths to find a job they like.