Focus areas of the Music for Social Change Hilti Foundation Together with highly competent partners, the Hilti Every young person is entitled to a quality education, a Foundation develops and executes projects in three conviction on which the work in the focus area “Music for main strategic areas. Social Change” is based on. By making music together, Learn more about the Hilti Foundation in our 2023 Company Report students build skills and mindsets that empower them on their path to adulthood. Strong self-con昀椀dence enables them to develop and use their full potential while taking responsibility for themselves and the community. Economic Empowerment Music for Social Change • AIM, the Academy for Impact through Music, provides a platform for these teachers to develop and test Enabling people in need to become economically • By supporting social music programs around the world, innovative and impact-oriented teaching methods. independent is what economic empowerment is the Hilti Foundation offers children and young people In 2023, AIM has started to develop “Fire up”, a less all about. Special programs provide both the rural development opportunities that enable them to grow time intensive course that recognizes the limited time population and the young generation in the cities of beyond themselves and overcome the limits set by their availability of many teachers and therefore condenses East African countries with the ability to escape poverty socio-economic background. This requires not only music the core elements of AIM’s 15-month teacher training and become part of an emerging middle class. as such, but also well-trained teachers who focus on the program. This allows AIM to also extend the reach of the Economic Empowerment personal development of their young students. program. • The enterprise development program provides families in rural East Africa with professional training, coaching and micro昀椀nancing to create thriving farming enterprises. This enables them to earn a Affordable Housing & Technology • In 2014, the Hilti Foundation launched the BASE Bahay sustainable and growing income, so they can afford a Foundation to establish bamboo as a standard building better living standard through their own efforts. By 2030, an estimated 3.0 billion people worldwide are material for the Global South. Focusing on housing expected to live in substandard housing. This has a for low-income families, more than 1500 homes have • Since 2022, the vocational training project PropelA signi昀椀cant impact not only on their safety and health but been built in the Philippines and Nepal using Hilti’s provides Kenya’s youth with excellent practical skills also on their economic and social opportunities. “Affordable innovative CBFT bamboo technology. Although bamboo for sustainable employment and thus for a self-reliant Housing & Technology” contributes to creating safer and is considered resilient, green, and affordable, it is still a life. The program’s success requires commitment affordable living spaces for people in need by developing niche product in the construction industry. from the government and from the private sector, with innovative technologies and sustainable building concepts. 40 leading plumbing and electrical Affordable Housing & Technology • To reach the next level in building with bamboo, BASE is companies employing the initial now enabling the construction of special structures, such 300 apprentices, who will graduate as schools, community centers and market halls, based on with a national diploma after two the high-level research of its innovation center. Thus, BASE years. PropelA aims to transform the is also helping to create a bamboo industry, including, vocational education completely in among others, treatment facilities and prefabrication Kenya’s construction sector. centers. These also provide exciting business opportunities for local entrepreneurs and communities.