Costa Crociere has constituted the "Costa Crociere Foundation"



, independent organization the whose objective is that to improve the social conditions and environmental ones inside of the communities in which Costa Crociere work thanks to the only resources which the company and its partner has approached. "We have - the managing director of Costa Crociere has declared, Michael Thamm - a responsibility for the atmosphere in which we work. As company we have the duty and the opportunity protect the seas and to support the Italian communities. The constitution of the Foundation consolidates along distance that we have begun years ago. A woven positive and healthy atmosphere an economic one is in the interests of the company, above all for that it regards the Italy, country in which is our center, one of our more important markets and the place in which we have grown".

The Foundation will integrate initiatives of long duration and already supported by Costa Crociere and will finance new projects, initially in reality of Genoa where the company is founded and has grown. The philanthropic contributions of the partner of the company, let alone the voluntary service of the dependent of the company will be involved and favorite. One of the projects pilot will regard homeless people of Genoa, in fort increase because of the Italian economic recession.

Regarding the environmental engagement, the main objective of the Foundation will be the reduction of the pollution of the Mediterranean Sea, operating in cooperation with the local communities and encouraging people and companies to re-use things and objects rather than to throw them. Through projects educational and oriented to increase the knowledge of the people, the Foundation will help consumers and partner to comprise the impact of the plastic as refusal through the approach of "five R": Veteran - Reuse - Recycle - Redesign - Recover, with the purpose to reduce the plastic amount that ends in the Mediterranean.

Costa Crociere has specified that the Foundation will be independent, but connected to Costa Crociere who will support it as founding. The new organization will be guided by a directive and which supported council from staff of little members that will work together with the advisory board in order to select afferent projects to the two main programs. The deep ones will come mostly from the donations of greater the partner, from the organization of events for hosts or opened the public, as well as from the sale on board of producing of the Foundation. "The Foundation - Thatcher Brown has explained, president of the Costa Crociere Foundation - will sponsor mainly projects benefits promoted from nonprofit organizations. It will start important projects and it will try occasions in order to create synergies between the activities of Costa Crociere and those of the Foundation. In this way, we will be able to for example take advantage of the various resources that the company is using, between which the ability to acquire goods and services to convenient prices for the beneficiaries of the programs of the Foundation, the good relations with the average in order to diffuse the relative messages to the social and environmental problems, the contacts with the hosts in order to involve them in the deep activities of collection".