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The Charity Rounding Up available in General Optica stores!

May 13 2022

We are very happy to announce that since some days ago, all the General Optica stores in Spain offer the opportunity to make a small donation each time that customers pay with card and collaborate with a social cause.

How it works

After introducing the payment card, the pinpad ask if the customer whats to add few cents to their purchase. In order to collaborate, customers must press the green button and continue with the usual payment process.

The charity project: ophthalmological care for children at risk of exclusion

All the donations raised through the Charuty Rounding Up will go to Fundación Barraquer, organization that facilitates the access to ophtalmological care for people at risk of social exclusion.

Through the “Miramos por ti” program, the organization provides free ophthalmological and optometric assistance to people in vulnerable situations.

Visit https://generaloptica.worldcoo.com in order to have more information about the project.

Worldcoo Team

Worldcoo’s Anual Report 2021

Feb 24 2022

A journey through our last year

Here you have our Anual Report 2021, a year in which we have doubled the number of donations made compared to the previous year. The sum of all these small micro-donations made in different shops has raised more than 4 million euros, which will help fund 116 different social and environmental projects around the world.

We are very happy to have been able to offer help to various social causes that have needed it this year, marked by the consequences of the Covid pandemic. And also to have been able to offer immediate help to people affected by other climate emergencies that have occurred in recent months, such as the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, or the floods that took place in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

This 2021 has also been very special because we have made the leap to Andorra, with the help of Univers Bomosa. And we have presented the first fundraising campaign in the Principality with the help of one of the leading telecommunications companies in the count.

We explain you everything in OUR ANUAL REPORT.

Worldcoo Team

New agreements with social organizations – September

Oct 05 2021

We finalize the month of September with 10 new collaboration agreements with social and environmental organizations.

These ones are:

Spanish Confederation of People with Phyisical and Organic Disabilities(COCEMFE), organization that works to ensure an inclusive society that guarantees the full exercise of the rights of people with disabilities.
Mallorca Sense Fam, which was born from the idea of a group of people, as a response to the emercing poverty that the current crisis is generating.
CBD Habitat, a non-profit organization for the protection of habitat.
Fundació Sorli, a reference center for gender equality in the business community.
Aspros Foundation, organization who promotes social inclusion and quality of life of people with disabilities.
Plan International Italia, international organization that works for the development of girls, boys and the communities in which they live.
Portolà Foundation, a special employment center that facilitates the social and labor integration of people with intellectual disabilities and / or mental disorders.
Institute of Biomedical Research of Girona Dr Josep Trueta (IDIBGI), research center that aims to promote, develop, manage, transfer and disseminate biomedical research, scientific and technological knowledge, teaching and training.
Associació per a l’Ajut al Sud de l’Índia (AJUTSI), an entity that works to promote and support development projects in South India in cooperation with other NGOs in the country. Ajutsi’s main project is the Parameswar School of Secondary Education in the town of Gengapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.
Associació per la Vida Independent (AVI), organization that works in order to improve the quality of life of people with dependency and/or disability.

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Worldcoo Team

New collaboration with All We Wear Group

Jul 12 2021

All We Wear Group and Mastercard collaborate with the Spanish Red Cross in “Pepe Jeans London” stores

AWWG, global fashion group, and Mastercard collaborate with the Spanish Red Cross to offer psychosocial support to those who have suffered the most during the pandemic. Through this initiative, customers of Pepe Jeans London stores will be able to aid people affected by the health crisis, especially the most vulnerable.

Thus, Pepe Jeans London stores in Spain become the first to carry out this initiative, soon to be followed in other markets such as Portugal, Germany, and France. Through our innovative donation mechanism, in which on this occasion we have used Adyen Giving’s technological solution, Pepe Jeans London clients will be able to make a micro-donation to charity when paying by card.

This innovative donation system is simple, secure, and completely transparent for customers and stores: donations operate as a different transaction from purchases and will go directly to the Spanish Red Cross.

Coping with the pandemic

Aiming to cope with the effects of the pandemic between all, the global fashion group AWWG will be the first to activate this donation method. When paying by card, their customers will be offered three donation options: 0,5€, 1€, and 2€. 100% of every contribution will go to the Spanish Red Cross.

All We Wear Group will be joined by the technology multinational Mastercard in this effort. Both companies will contribute to the fundraising campaign by matching every donation received until doubling the initial budget of 10.000€.

The funds collected will go to the project “Cruz Roja te Escucha,” whose objective is to offer psychosocial support to the following:

Those who, due to their circumstances of illness, loneliness, advanced age, loss of employment, functional diversity, or homelessness, among others, are most affected by the pandemic.

Relatives and friends of acutely ill patients or victims who died from the disease caused by COVID-19, and to those hospitalized or isolated at home with severe symptoms.

Volunteers and workers of the Red Cross, who are carrying out humanitarian work.

Workers and volunteers of the Red Cross, who are specialists in psychosocial support and accompaniment, will provide this service. Regarding the most complex cases or situations, they will be aided by psychology professionals of the Organization who specialize in different areas of psychological care.

Worldcoo Team

The Charity Rounding Up now available in muymucho stores!

Oct 05 2020

We are proud to see how the Charity Rounding Up is getting closer every day to commercial establishments of all kinds. Muy mucho is the first firm in the decoration and home sector to implement the new donation system.
As of this week, all very much customers can round the final amount of their purchase when they pay by card and donate the remaining cents to the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

The charity project

Millions of people around the world suffer the directly from the consequences of violence and conflict, displacement, epidemics and nutritional crises. In emergency situations like this, arriving as soon as possible is key to guaranteeing the survival of thousands of people.
The amount collected will go to the emergency fund of Doctors Without Borders (Médicos Sin Fronteras in Spain) so that the entity has the necessary resources to provide medical assistance in humanitarian crises.

How to collaborate

If you are a muymucho customer and wants to collaborate with a social cause, round up the total amount of you purchase by pressing the green button when paying with card. Then, continue with the usual payment process.

Your donation will be reflected in your ticket. We remind you that you can request your donation certificate , as well as get more information about this project here: https://muymucho.worldcoo.com/

Worldcoo Team

Charity Rounding Up in favour of Vicente Ferrer Foundation

Aug 03 2020

This August, the customers of Bonpreu i Esclat Supermarket can round up the total amount of their purchase and donate the cents to Vicente Ferrer Foundation.

Many families of the most poorest comunities in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (in the South of India) live in precarious houses that don’t have the minimum living or hygiene conditions. They also don’t have letrines or a space for their personal hygiene, which forces them to do their physical needs outdoors, with very negative consequences on health and safe. The population lives exposed to the inclement weather, from the monsoon rains to the intense heat that punishes the area and forces them to rebuild them permanently as well as the bites of dangerous animals such as snakes and scorpions.

Having a solid home in conditions of hygiene and safety is an essential requirement to achieve good social integration. For this reason, the money raised during August thanks to the Bonpreu i Esclat Charity Rounding Up will be used to build 20 homes in conditions of health and hygiene for the most disadvantaged families in Chandrapalli.

If you want to get more information about this project visit https://bonpreu.worldcoo.com

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Worldcoo joins Mastercard’s Start Path Program

May 15 2020

We are happy to share with you that we have announced today our acceptance into Mastercard Start Path, an award-winning program that enables later-stage tech startups to rapidly scale.

Start Path is one of many renowned programs in Mastercard Accelerate, which provides a simple, single entry point to Mastercard’s wide fintech portfolio and access to everything startups need to grow quickly.

Participation in the Start Path program will enable us to gain access to Mastercard’s global network of innovators, partners and experts together with 11 more startups from around the world such as Hoolah, SmartPesa and Enveil.

In words of Sergi Figueres, Worldcoo’s CEO, “our participation in Start Path represents a huge opportunity for us to scale up our fundraising solutions worldwide and, as a consequence, help society to make micro-donations each time they make a transaction in different daily moments in an easy and effective way.”

“After sourcing the best and brightest later stage startups from across the globe, we’re thrilled to welcome Worldcoo to the Start Path ecosystem of innovators,” said Amy Neale, Senior Vice President, Start Path & Fintech, Mastercard. “The diversity in our Start Path program proves how quickly the pace of innovation is happening and together we are building the future of commerce.”

Start Path evaluates more than 1,500 applications per year and selects about 40 companies that offer the most promising technologies and demonstrate a readiness to scale. Since its founding in 2014, Start Path has provided 220 startups with operational support and commercial engagements within the Mastercard ecosystem.

Worldcoo Team

bonÀrea collaborates with child cancer research

Dec 10 2019

This December, all their customers can participate in the Charity Rounding Up campaign and collaborate with the “Obra Social Sant Joan de Déu”

In the world, each year more than 250.000 new cases of child cancer are diagnosed.

The need to invest in research and innovation is crucial. In this sense, the “Sant Joan de Déu” Hospital will inaugurate the new SJD Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona next year, a new reference center, pioneer in Europe in the treatment and child cancer medical research.

The project will become a reality thanks to all the donations made by society and will proportionate an integral and personalized medical and care attention to patients and their families.

Now, the customers of bonÀrea have the opportunity to contribute to create this new center through the Worldcoo’s Charity Rounding Up solution.

You can have more information about this project and follow up the current fundraising status here.

Worldcoo Team

Viena in favor of the labor insertion for people with intellectual disabilities

Sep 30 2019

Charity Rounding Up for AMPANS

Since some months ago, Viena offers in all their establishments the Charity Rounding Up, a new solution that enables people to make micro-donations for charity each time they pay with card.

The first campaign they collaborated with was dedicated to the research for a future without Alzheimer, together with the Pasqual Maragall Foundation. During the past months, all their customers have had the chance to collaborate with the Gasol Foundation to promote the physical exercise to improve children’s health.

“Cent to cent, we create opportunities”

Now, Viena starts a new campaign with the main aim of promote the labor insertion of people with intellectual disabilities, and they will do so with AMPANS Foundation.

The AMPANS Foundation accompanies people with intellectual disabilities of vulnerable situations so that they can develop their life projects, ensuring their rights, offering support and creating opportunities that make it possible.

Having a job makes people live fully, feel useful and contribute to society. In AMPANS, people with intellectual disabilities are helped to obtain and maintain a workplace in standardized environments, but when the incorporation into the world of business is not possible, the foundation creates adapted workplaces, with a wide range of possibilities to find the right place for each person.

One of the labor insertion projects that AMPANS wants to promote is an agro-social tourism project on the Urpina region, in the heart of Catalonia.

Cent to cent, the customers of Viena will collect to promote the agro-social tourism project that AMPANS develops in Urpina (Catalonia). The initiative will provide a workplace for 40 people with special needs in the coming years, and will raise awareness for the socio-labor inclusion of people with disabilities to the more than 20,000 visitors who are expected that will visit the farm.

You can follow the donation process and obtain more information about the project here.

Worldcoo Team

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