Our projects follow medium and long-term objectives, defined with local partners in compliance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In 2015, 193 states adopted the sustainable development goals. The signatory States attempt:
Adopted at the Paris Climate Change Conference, also known as COP21. This conference focuses on the challenges and issues to be overcome in order to combine human prosperity with the protection of the planet.
17 objectives are put forward and adopted. They are all a continuation of their predecessors, the millennium development goals, set in 2000.
In 2015, these expired: it is a great success, with a reduction in extreme poverty by 50% in the world. It is on this momentum that these new objectives for 2030 were set in 2015.
However, the SDGs go further:
Freepackers contributes to the achievement of the SDGs on all of its projects:
This SDG plans to put an end to hunger and malnutrition in all its forms within 10 years.
Freepackers offers different projects and internships to help populations suffering from malnutrition with:
For example :
The community project in Fiji aims to reduce malnutrition in the Dawasamu district.
Different measures are put in place:
The district nurse reported that between February and October 2018, there was a real reduction in malnutrition among children under five years old.
Education is a key aspect and having access to quality education means improving your future and improving your chances of emancipation.
Freepackers provides access to a significant number of educational projects, with communities in need of educational support.
Our women's empowerment program in Cape Town:
We have developed a program for local women wanting to develop their IT skills so they can find employment.
With the host organization, we continue to develop our lessons to best provide them with the keys to emancipation.
Achieving this objective means eradicating discriminatory laws, norms and practices, which are still omnipresent in our society.
Our women's empowerment and education programs:
It is by giving women the skills necessary to be competitive in the job market, and instilling in them a new sense of self-confidence that all these types of programs meet objectives 4 AND 5.
For example: helping local women in South Africa develop their IT skills to find employment more easily helps eradicate gender inequalities.
A mission that various Freepackers programs are tackling.
Many communities do not benefit from reliable and permanent access to drinking water, especially in rural areas. Thus, we seek to limit these risks in several of Freepackers projects.
The case of Seychelles:
After the 2004 tsunami, there were fears that the ecosystem of the Curieuse Marine National Park (CMNP) would experience significant decline.
To assess these concerns, our partner partnered with the Seychelles National Park Authority (SNPA) and began monitoring the forest in 2013. Water services provided to society are provided by ecosystems.
Ensuring the health of our mangrove forest is our way of supporting global efforts to improve water quality.
We therefore offer a forest monitoring mission among our marine and environmental conservation programs.
Freepackers also supports communities by helping them find decent jobs. The interests are:
Several projects contribute to improving the standard of living of local communities.
Marine conservation programs in Mexico:
This is the case for these programs which now provide a grant to locals in greatest need. They also strengthen cultural interactions between participants and the inhabitants of the region.
In accordance with this objective of sustainable development, we seek to conserve the oceans, seas and marine resources through various projects.
This is particularly the case for all marine conservation programs in Mexico, Costa Rica and Fiji.
By training you, Freepackers contributes to the protection of marine ecosystems, oceans and its inhabitants.
Concretely, the different bases strive to make ethical environmental choices, some of which include:
Most of our bases also organize beach cleanups when they can.
They are located in coastal villages and focus on community development, marine or wildlife conservation. Everyone helps clean up our oceans
Objective 15 involves the preservation and restoration of different terrestrial ecosystems.
Many projects contribute to the protection of different species, helping wildlife against the different threats and challenges it faces.
For example :
This is the case in the program located in Limpopo in South Africa. Staff and volunteers help to:
In this section, we present research carried out in Limpopo into the predation habits of resident cheetahs.
We are also participating in establishing a global partnership for sustainable development, by collaborating directly with different local associations within communities.
Indeed, as the United Nations recognizes, it is imperative to partner and work together.
Freepackers embodies this in everything we do and do, forming unique and collaborative relationships with each of the communities in which we operate.
