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Prisma Presse is involved in several patronage projects. These initiatives are projects close to our hearts prompted by chance encounters (A chacun son Everest) and others are related to our profession (Maison des Journalistes, la Plume de Swane or the Diversity initiative). All these patronage initiatives are connected to a shared conviction: Prisma Presse, the number two magazine press group in France, must be economically and socially committed.
 For several years, Prisma Presse has supported A chacun son Everest. It was founded by an extraordinary woman, Christine Janin, a mountaineer and doctor. A chacun son Everest helps children affected by cancer or leukaemia in their physical and psychological recovery through a mountaineering trip. Our commitment to this charity results in an original and fruitful approach that is focused on children and thus on the future.
 The Group also provides support to the Maison des Journalistes. Founded in 2003, this charity provides shelter to around fifteen journalists forced to flee their countries in which freedom of the press is repressed. These journalists are asylum-seekers and victims of repression in their country. Prisma Presse finances a room at the Maison des Journalistes, providing a political refugee journalist with life necessities and work through publication of the magazine “L’oeil de l’exilé”. Danièle Ohayon, Chairman and founder of the Maison des Journalistes, explains: “The doors of each room bear the name of a media and show the commitment of French groups to freedom of the press. Beyond competition and editorial projects, everyone is involved in a concrete act of solidarity”.
 Since 2008, La Plume de Swane has also been part of our patronage initiatives. The charity was founded by Françoise Montabric to help her god-daughter, Swane, to overcome cancer. At the time she was hospitalised at the Trousseau hospital, and like all other children with this disease, was living in complete isolation. The treatment she was under was so aggressive that it weakened her immune system, and contact with the outside world was impossible. Françoise Montabric decided to create a magazine to occupy and encourage these children, and help form a connection between them. La Plume de Swane was founded. Prisma Presse is proud to support this young charity which helps hospitalised children by encouraging them to publish a quarterly magazine that gives them a voice.
The PrismaSolidaire initiative also gives employees the opportunity to be involved in actions of solidarity each year. Its goal is to allow the Group’s employees to make a gesture of solidarity by making “100% useful” donations. They took part in this operation in great numbers, donating new or used goods to charities that were consulted and selected beforehand. The charities specify their needs and the recipients in detail: several thousand items are thus collected by Prisma Presse and donated to people in distress.
PrismaSolidaire is conducted in partnership with “jeveuxaider.com”, directed by Ingrid Kemoun.
 Prisma Presse is committed to Diversity. We have signed an agreement with Sciences Po, which offers via Prisma Presse to finance the studies of one student and hire that student and we have pursued this initiative through the creation of a Scholarship with the CFJ. Eventually, all Journalism schools will be offered a plan to finance the studies of one student from an under-privileged background.
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