(L-R) Sophie Glesener, Director of SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde; Fernand Heinisch, Managing Partner of Emile Weber; Credit: Luc Miller

On Thursday 29 January 2026, Luxembourg non-profit organisation SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde (SOSVEM) announced it had received a donation of €5,000 from the Voyages Emile Weber travel company.

According to SOSVEM, in December 2025, Emile Weber decided to allocate its traditional end-of-year donation to the association. The sum of €5,000 was presented on Thursday 22 January 2026, by Fernand Heinisch, Managing Partner of Emile Weber, to SOSVEM Director Sophie Glesener and SOSVEM Head of Partnerships, Anne Schweizer, at the travel company’s headquarters in Canach.

SOSVEM said the generous donation will benefit children, young people and vulnerable families supported by SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde in Guinea through long-term development programmes included in the 2022–2026 Framework Agreement signed with its supervising ministry, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. These programmes focus on the protection and rights of children and young people as well as on improving their employability in a country where youth unemployment is particularly high, and are part of the PACOPE-SPE series of community empowerment initiatives. 

Since 2022 and continuing through 2026, they have been implemented in four localities — Conakry, Kankan, Labé and N’Zérékoré — by the local association SOS Villages d’Enfants in Guinea, which has been active in the country for more than forty years.

At the cheque presentation, the representatives of SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde warmly thanked the management and staff of Emile Weber for their involvement over the past 20 years and for their regular commitment to the non-profit organisation for more than ten years.

“We gratefully receive this generous donation for our programmes in Guinea, one of the most vulnerable countries in the world. These programmes aim to strengthen and empower children and young people and to raise awareness within their communities and society of their protection, their rights and their well-being,”emphasised Sophie Glesener.