EDP’s Solidarity program intends to improve people’s quality of life, especially in regions where EDP develops its intervention, supporting projects promoted by nonprofit organizations.
Excluding exclusion
EDP’s Solidarity program is an initiative promoted by EDP’s Foundation in Spain, that aims to support sustainable projects whose goal is to promote energy efficiency and access to energy, improving, consequently, the quality of life of people and vulnerable groups, at risk of exclusion, and stimulating employment and entrepreneurship.
EDP Solidarity acts in three different pillars:
1 - Caring about the elders;
2 - Fight against rural depopulation and development;
3 - Access to energy and promotion of energy efficiency.
The Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that submit their applications to support, should present sustainable projects, where energy efficiency provides, in the future, considerable savings that will allow allocating that return to their main mission and, simultaneously, can create jobs and bring awareness to society about savings.
Examples of supported projects
These are some of the projects supported that help fight against energy precariousness and promote the improvement of the use of energy sources:
- “Energy Efficiency: an employment opportunity for young people in vulnerable situations”, of Tomillo Fundación (Madrid Community);
- “Renovation and energy efficiency for the Center of homeless people Aize Onak”, of the Lagun Artean Center (Basque country);
- “Promoting green and social employment to fight against energy poverty”, from ECODES Fundación (Aragon).
In October 2020, the EDP Foundation launched EDP Solidarity Covid-19, with the aim of mitigating the effects of the severe social and economical crisis, originated by the pandemic. The focus of this program centers, temporarily, in the response to the consequences of the crisis created by this pandemic context, having registered an increase of 800.000 € in the global amount of support. However, the 2022 edition, launched a challenge to the projects that intended to stimulate cooperation and the fair energy transition.
