communities. Good education helps children to realise their full potential and become productive, caring adults able to raise the next generation. Lack of education, on the other hand, makes children vulnerable to abuse and poverty. For this reason, we have made children’s education the central theme of our community investment programmes. In 2005, we set up the ING Chances for
Children programme, which on the one hand focuses on children in faraway countries that live in the most disadvantaged circumstances, and on the other hand supports children nearby in the areas where our employees live and work. To achieve a truly meaningful impact on the world’s most underprivileged children, ING partners with UNICEF, the most well-known children’s rights organisation.
ING Chances for Children complements its global partnership with UNICEF with local activities aimed at supporting children in underprivileged communities in areas where our employees and customers live and work. The local programmes have seen thousands of ING employees involved as volunteers and as donors for local children’s related charitable partners.
Our ambition is that by the first of January of 2015 our selected UNICEF projects globally will have positively impacted the lives of at least one million children in need, providing them with access to school, better quality education and safer and healthier living conditions.
