Artist to the Stars!

Fundación Telmex, formerly Asociación Carso, A.C., is a non-lucrative philanthropic

organization established in

1996 whose objective is to support ongoing programs in education, health, culture, justice

and the social well-being

of Mexico, which Asociación Carso has promoted since 1986 with the aim of effectively

contributing to the eradication

of extreme poverty and improving the quality of life of the Mexican population.

Fundación Telmex has an endowment

of more than US$1.5 billion.

To achieve the above, the organization has implemented the following programs related

 to teaching, sports, health,

arts and culture in general, helping the most vulnerable groups in our country to grow and develop.

The key accomplishments of this organization are as follows:

Recognitions

In December 2005, Fundación Telmex was recognized as Foundation of the Year for its philanthropic work by the Mexico City chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

On November 22, 2006, Arturo Elías Ayub, Executive Director of Fundación Telmex, received the José Vasconcelos Award from Dr. Reyes Tamez Guerra, Secretary of Public Education at the time; the award is granted by that government office to institutions committed to education in Mexico.

On November the 20, 2007, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of Mexico, granted Fundacion Telmex with the 2007 Sports National Award, for its support and commitment to the sports in Mexico, as well as with the professional and non professional sports men and women, the sports people with special abilities and the ones that practice sports  to improve its health and recreate its lives.

Last October 2007,  Copa Telmex of Amateur Football obtained a Guinness Record as the non professional tournament with the largest number of competitors around the world, as it reunited 148 thousand 714 players in 8 thousand 600 teams throughout the Mexican territory.

In 2008, for second consecutive year Fundación TELMEX was granted with two awards: the Sports National Award, for its commitment with the sports in Mexico and the Guiness Record for Copa TELMEX, as the biggest amateur tournament around the world.

 

During 2007, TELMEX made the Casa TELMEX project, with the firm conviction that education is an essential component of a free, healthy, just and prosperous society, and that providing children and youth of today the possibility of acquiring useful skills, they will increase its chances of improving their conditions and quality of life in the short and long term.

Casa TELMEX is an ambitious project in favor of education in our country whose primary objective is to contribute actively in the development of digital literacy that requires the childhood and youth Mexican, providing educational technologies innovative to students from four to 18 years of age, and giving support to teachers and parents, and build together learning scenarios that complement the education in schools, in accordance with the digital society.

Casa TELMEX focuses on a completely free education, on three educational points:

• Knowledge. - Cognitive skills, primarily related to the reasoning, the acquisition of verbal, numerical, and computing languages.
• Values. - Social skills, mainly related to the capacity of cooperation with other and the creation of confidence in the other ones, communication skills and respect for the rights of others.
• Beauty.-The ability to recognize and/or to express through an aesthetic language.

The Educational Platform of Casa TELMEX, is composed by 63 main workshops, of which can be loosen up more than 1.000 educational modules.

On January 31st 2008 the first Casa TELMEX opened its doors in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas.

The development and launching of more Casas TELMEX will continue during 2008, as an effort of TELMEX to contribute on the creation of a new generation of Mexicans capable to conceive and to conduct the goal of building a better Mexico.

 

Eng. Carlos Slim, along with Alex Rodriguez, baseball player of the New York Yankees, visited the new “Centro Deportivo Bicentenario”, the biggest sports center in Mexico located in the old waste dump of the Bordo de Xochiaca, in Nezahualcóyotl.
November 30, 2008.

Invited by Eng. Slim to visit this broad sports center, which will receive approximately 6 thousand visitors during weekends, Alex Rodriguez, third base player of the New York Yankees, offered a baseball class to 170 members of a child league and expressed: “it is really a pleasure for me to talk about the this ball game, the importance of sports to maintain children out of the streets, drugs and harmful things of life”.

Winner of the 2007-2008 “best baseball player award” of the Major League Baseball, Alex Rodriguez commended the new sports center as well as the fact that Carlos Slim contributed with the necessary resources to build this center; he looked really astonished with the facilities and he explained to all his little fans that when he was a child he didn’t have the opportunity to practice baseball in so amazing field.

The sport center Centro Deportivo Bicentenario is built on what was known as the Bordo de Xochiaca city dump, at the east of Mexico City in the municipality known as Netzahualcoyotl in a site of about 600 thousand square meters.  This huge project is considered an environmental rescue.

The vast facilities of this sports center offers  the people who lives in the area a  way to practice sports without charge as it has 25 soccer fields, four tennis courts, four basketball courts, four volleyball courts, two football fields and two baseball fields. Furthermore, it has a gym, fronton, a special room for aerobics, cycle track, a stadium with room for 3, 650 people, four lagoons that are supposed to collect 5 million liters of water per year, parkland areas, playgrounds, parking areas and helipad.

Self-Maintainable Environmental Rescue

The Centro Deportivo Bicentenario represents an extraordinary environmental effort, it was built over an area with thousands tons of waste that was generating a severe pollution problem; the trash was compressed and covered with several layers of soil which helps to eliminate noxious fauna, reduce suspended bacteria and microorganisms and it will combat the pollution of aquifer because of decomposed organic waste.

Moreover, it is going to be self-maintainable as it will recover more than 5 million liters of water per year through its four lagoons and it will produce 5 thousand permanent jobs.

This humongous project will include along with sports center, a shopping mall, a university, a technology school, hospitals and it will be known as Ciudad Jardin Bicentenario.

 

www.fundacioncentrohistorico.com.mx

The Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, A. C., (Historical Center of Mexico City Foundation) is an organization through which, members of the civil society perform work to protect, restore, rescue and revitalize the Historical Center of Mexico City. This work is shared with other government agencies, corporations and other programs implemented by the private sector. Continue...

• Last September 10th 2008 Engineer Carlos Slim Helu participated in the seminar: “El Centro Historico en la Ciudad de Mexico: Ordenamiento, Revitalización y Conservacion” (The Historical Centre in Mexico: Ordering, Revitalization and Preservation. During his conference he explained that it have been invested 20,000 million Mexican pesos in this area, which have allowed the creation of approximately 8.500 jobs only in enterprises of Grupo Carso. He also noted that as part of the program to revitalize the centre of the city, it has been developed a comprehensive plan to improve the social and economical level of their inhabitants, through actions that allow to raise the conditions of health, education and employment.

 

The Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía, A.C. (Mexican Center for Philanthropy, known by its Spanish acronym CEMEFI) and the Alianza para la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (Alliance for Corporate Social Responsibility, or AliaRSE) have given Socially Responsible Company Awards since the 2000 to companies committed to corporate social responsibility, namely, those that as part of their strategy and corporate culture engage in maximizing the positive impact of their business activity for the benefit of the communities where they operate.

In order to receive this award, companies must meet 120 indicators in the four fundamental areas applicable to corporate social responsibility: quality of life in the company, connection to the community, corporate ethics, as well as care and preservation of the environment.

Telmex demonstrates has up to 2007, received the ESR Award for six consecutive years. Telmex’s commitment has led it to comply with the four fundamental areas applicable to corporate social responsibility: quality of life in the company, relationship with the community, corporate ethics, and care and preservation of the environment.

 

www.museosoumaya.com

From cash and in-kind donations, a cultural art treasure was created with more than 64,000 works of art, which are exhibited in this museum established in 1994, an institution that also researches, conserves and promotes Mexican and European artistic testimonies on a not-for-profit basis.

Museo Soumaya is committed to integrate the world of art with broader society through programs for children, youth, adults, senior citizens and persons with disabilities, through juried work that has also traveled to leading cultural facilities in 24 states of the Mexican Republic and 7 cities in the United States, as well as in San Salvador, Panama, Buenos Aires, Sète Port in France, Madrid and Bilbao in Spain, and Beirut in Lebanon, all of which have enjoyed some of the magnificent treasures from the collection.

TELMEX, Claro and Museo Soumaya, from Fundación Carlos Slim, presents in Lima, Peru, the exhibit Del mito al Sueño. Rodin…. Dali. Continue

 

www.cehm.com.mx

The Centro de Estudios de Historia de México Carso (Center for the Study of Mexican History) was created in 1965 by CONDUMEX to help research and address the social and cultural concerns the founders and managers of the company had from the start. The Center has 800,000 items among its books and manuscripts, as well as five rooms to house the most precious collections.

 

In an effort to do something for Mexico, the Asociación de Superación por México (Association for the Improvement of México) was born in 1980. Thus, the ASUME, human development program began. It is based on three issues:

1. Constant improvement. There are no limits or excuses to trying to be a little bit better today than yesterday.
   
2. Competition. You should compete with yourself and not with others because if I compare myself to others, either I get a complex or I do not improve.
   
3. Balanced improvement: in each one of the following eight areas (physical, economic, aesthetic, intellectual, emotional, social, moral and spiritual), and set goals for each one.

Our goal: Be better yourself so that you can improve your environment.
Goal: Change society by changing man.

Through on-going improvement ASUME A.C., founded on the identification and acting with values, tries to educate men and women of peace, who are responsible, happy and committed with themselves and their families, their work and México.

 

With an initial endowment of US$4 billion, Fundación Carlos Slim is extending its work to Latin America through projects that have succeeded to benefit thousands of people in Mexico.

Institutos Carso

www.salud.carso.org/ 

In March 2007 the creation of three Carso Institutes was announced: Health, Education and Sports, with coverage in Latin America. On Septembre 2007, Carso Health Institute was presented and soon Carso Education Institute, and Carso Sport Institute will be presented. Continue...

• Vivian Fernández de Torrijos, First Lady of Panama, and Carlos Slim Helú, signed in June 23, an agreement to apply maternal and infant health programs in that country, through the Carso Health Institute (CHI). Continue
  
  
• Last September 11th 2008, the Instituto Carso de la Salud (Carso Health Institute) granted acknowledgements to the winners of the first edition of the “Premios Carso en Salud, Nutrición y Medio Ambiente” awards (Carso in Health, Nutrition and Environment Awards) in its three different categories: Innovation to Improve Health Services, Personal Career, and Exceptional Institution.

Aid to Fight Poverty.
In New York City, on June 2007, Mr. Carlos Slim Helú announced his commitment to contribute 100 million U.S. Dollars to the initiative of former president of the United States, William Clinton, to fight poverty in Latin America. Mr. Slim participates in this initiative jointly with the former president of the United States and the Canadian businessman, Frank Giustra.

Support to Digital Education

In 2007 the Fundación Carlos Slim and the Telmex Foundation will donate 250 thousand laptop computers to public schools, libraries and Telmex's education centers. The estimated investment of this donation is 70 million dollars.

Plans are to donate in 2008 up to one million laptop computers in Mexico. The main objective of this program is to bring digital education to children. It can also be extended to other Latin American countries.

“The challenge is digital education”, said Mr. Carlos Slim Helú. Therefore it s expected that libraries may lend children books and also a laptop computer to take home for one or two weeks and thus generate a multiplying effect.

The donation of these computers is part of Mr. Slim's objective to contribute to improve the situation of the country and the regions by promoting health, nutrition, education and employment.

The above is part of the project that also includes the construction of Telmex Houses in marginal areas of Mexico. They will have a library and a study room. Expectations are that these facilities will become digital education centers for 4 to 18 year-old children and youngs. The initial goal is to build at least 100 homes in the next four years.

ALAS Foundation (Latin América in Solidarity Action)

The ALAS Foundation (Latin América in Solidarity Action) is a non-profit organization formed by artists, businessmen and prominent members of the civil society engaged in improving the health and education of Latin American children by creating awareness and promoting social programs. One of the founders of this ambicious proyect is Carlos Slim Helú, who in may 2008, reaffirms its commitment to cooperate with the cause of ALAS, with a donation of $110 million to support programs for children.

• Carlos Slim Helu reaffirms its commitment to cooperate with the cause of ALAS, with a donation of $110 million to support programs for children. Continue

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