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Accor, hotel and services group, and Plan, have worked together in 16 countries. The aim of the partnership is to promote child sponsorship and project funding to Accor staff, partners and guests.

Highlight of achievements to date:

• more than 1,100 children are now sponsored throughout the world by Accor staff, clients and partners
• Accor have raised in excess of €800,000 which has been used to support projects worldwide

Some of the projects Accor staff made possible:

• Indonesia: supporting tsunami survivors
• Zambia: nutrition training
• Mali: two wells and a sports field are underway
• Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana, Senegal and Vietnam: several development programmes are underway
• Burkina Faso: building a school and kitchen gardens
• Thailand: rebuilding eight schools in the tsunami-hit Phuket and Phang Nga regions
• Togo: construction of multimedia centre
• China: renovation of schools and an eco-tourism programme
• Cambodia: building a school