Dear Friends
The Louvain Coopération team is particularly proud of the year 2024, which we have just completed. After settling into a new working environment based primarily on the circular economy, we worked together to define our new Strategic Plan 2025-2036. Among other things, this document specifies two fundamental elements: our specific approach and our approach. The latter is intended to be systemic, focusing in particular on the interaction between the 4 systems in which we want to operate. These are sustainable food systems, inclusive entrepreneurial systems, resilient health systems and inclusive and equitable education systems. All of this, in well-defined geographical areas where we want to have a significant global impact.
Louvain Coopération has also remained open to the world and in 2024 absorbed two organisations that wanted to join us, namely the Brussels-based NGO Rotary Clubs for Development and the New Leuven-based NGO Geomoun. Each of them has added to our expertise, extended our areas of activity (the Batéké Plateau in the DRC and Haiti) and diversified our methods of intervention. These operations, which are quite innovative for the sector, also enable Louvain Coopération to grow and strengthen our societal base and our impact with vulnerable populations.
In a world that, dare we say it, has its head turned upside down, we need your support more than ever so that we can make the necessary changes to adapt and transform. Because with your help, we want to continue to support students searching for meaning in our universities, to co-create real opportunities for entrepreneurs, to promote access to mental health services for vulnerable populations, particularly young women, or to develop efficient, profitable farming practices that respect biodiversity.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your interest and enjoy this reading time.
Jean-Michel Pochet
Chief Executive Officer