Events in 2024

With our events and your monetary contribution, we hope to once again make a difference to hundreds of families and children living in poor conditions.

Our plans until the end of the year:

• All year-long and until stock is gone, go to our SHOP page for our Online furniture sale to purchase home office items.
• In September:
  • Auditions to our talent show happening in September are open for subimission. https://www.helpinghands-sophia.org/talent-apply/
  • We’re getting ready for the Association Fair and Voluntary days by the Amadeus local People & Culture.
• In October:
  • Bake sale (1 October), yes, again 😁 
  • Karaoke night (October 15): Can’t tell how much fun it its! Tickets sell fast, so hurry! before they’re gone! https://www.helpinghands-sophia.org/karaoke-night/ 
• In November:
  • What a talent! show (November 7th): Have you seen La France a un incroyable talent? Well, it’s the same, just with Amadeus employees participating. Buy your tickets now! https://www.helpinghands-sophia.org/whattalent/ 
  • Socks for a good cause, and for each, we received a 3€ donation from the vendor.
  • Winter clothes, Toys collection where our colleagues donated toys, books and we gave them a new life! Some of the toys were sold to benefit the Helping Hands projects and the rest will be donated to local associations.
• In December:
  • Winter Wonderland market: Toys collected in November are sold (at a pay what you want concept) to benefit our associations  and unsold items are donated to local associations
  • Bake sale during the market. So many yummy stuff, can’t wait for the next one!! 🙂

What has happened so far…

• In August:
  • We took a break but the online furniture sale kept the money flowing. We’re still selling stuff, so take a look at our SHOP page and set up your home office with some bottom low prices!
• In July:
  • Back to school collection: It’s been a while since we did collections like this. All the proceed will be donated to local association.
• In June:
  • Bake sale again and we had a great time interacting with passerbys in the corridor of the Main site. What a game changer to be able to interact with our colleagues and of course sell for a good cause! 🙂
• In May:
  • Sound Healing & Yoga Nindra session: As always, what an experience it was with our Sheetal Karkera, super-expert Yoga Practitioner, brought these two ancient meditative practices to help de-stress, harmonise energies and allow the body to heal naturally through deep meditation.
  • Exopolis in Concert: Enjoy pop-rock music with Exopolis, a band composed of employees of Amadeus and Orange. 
• In March and April:
  • Spring Raffle: Amazon voucher ticket prizes of 150, 75 & 50 euros!
  • Bake sale again and we had a great time interacting with passerbys in the corridor of the Main site. First time and will continute to do so!!
• In February:
  • Baby clothes sale: in Amadeus Bel-Air and Main site.  Entrance restricted to employees.
  • Bake sale is back and we were happy to see so many people passing by! The concept of Get what you want, donate what you want! is simply lovely to see the generosity of our colleagues <3
  • Karaoke: The 3rd edition of a night of good fun, fun fun!
• In January:
  • General assembly: The Board has been renewed for the 2nd year in the row.
  • Baby clothes collection: A great opportunity to give your pre-loved baby clothes and kid ski clothes a send life