Volunteer work: Be involved and supportive

Your Good Works is the AXA Foundation's online bulletin board where AXA Equitable employees and financial professionals can let their AXA colleagues know about - and participate in - their volunteer activities. AXA people can recruit team members for volunteer projects, solicit donations for food drives, seek contributions for walk-a-thons - all through the Your Good Works site.

With the help of AXA, Very Special Kids seeks to improve the quality of life for families with a child suffering from an incurable disease. By focusing on the quality of life for the whole family, this organization provides practical psychological support for the sick child, his or her parents and any other children in the family.

AXA Hearts in Action volunteers from several countriesBelgium, France, Luxembourg, Senegal and Switzerlandjoin forces to build a school and a maternity ward in Senegal.

AXA Hearts in Action has lent its support to the creation of an elementary school in the suburbs of Dakar. This school, named "Daara de Malika" is able to welcome more than 200 children, girls and boys, from 6 to 14 years old. The Senegal chapter of AXA Hearts in Action also built a rural maternity ward with ten beds and a back-up power generator in the village of Ndellé, located about 250 kilometers from Dakar. Rural areas suffer from high rates of prenatal mortality due to a lack of healthcare facilities. Women sometimes must travel dozens of kilometers by cart, putting their lives at risk, to reach the nearest clinic or doctor.

As part of the Right to Read Scheme, in Bristol, employees from AXA Life volunteer to teach primary school children to read. Some 70 employees take the time to do this each week. In the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, a similar program has been rolled out in partnership with the Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership.

In New York, AllianceBernstein* supports the Anchor Program, which offers young people from disadvantaged backgrounds a chance to pursue quality education while living in a structured and caring environment. Anchor forges partnerships with high schools to build boarding schools for these distressed young people. After school, boarders participate in programs that have been specially designed to promote personal fulfillment and the acquisition of scholastic knowledge.For these young people, this program offers a truly solid anchor.

* AllianceBersntein: Asset Management subsidiary of AXA Equitable

A number of initiatives relating to this theme were conducted around the world, involving many AXA employee volunteers. In some countries, AXA volunteers raised funds to support national disabled athlete federations in connection with the Paralympics in Athens. The funds raised were used to enable nearly 160 athletes to train and 53 others to participate in the Games. In other countries, initiatives were rolled out to help local organizations involved in the development and practice of sports for the disabled, by contributing to the purchase of equipment or helping to organize sporting events in a voluntary capacity.

For two days, AXA France donated seven call centers and 900 volunteers to Sidaction 2006. With the Group's contribution, the initiative raised over 2 million euros. AXA was the first French company to play an active role in this annual event.

The Charles Bruneau Foundation. Fonded in 1990 by a group of ill childrens' parents and friends. The aim of the Foundation is to give ill chidren a chance to recover by supporting the Charles Bruneau Cancerology Center and researchs on cancer. AXA employees have supported the Foundation until 1991 by helping the organization of fundraising events.

Every year in the month of December, AXA Ireland invites 120 elderly guests to the AXA company restaurant at Wolfe Tone House for a gala evening and Christmas dinner.

After the tsunami that devastated much of Asia in December of 2004, AXA and its employees went to work to raise funds and provide logistical aid to the victims, donating 420,000 euros for reconstruction projects. Geneviève, an AXA employee in Switzerland, made a major personal investment, traveling to the region to lend a helping hand to the victims.

Her local efforts, and the financial support of AXA in Switzerland and in France, resulted in "Cartons du Coeur" boxes containing vital necessities, as well as the reconstruction of family restaurants and shops and the manufacture of more than 2,000 fishing nets.

The Mediterranean Region, via a number of special educational initiatives targeting the very young, decided to focus on the environment for the 2006 AXA Challenge. More than 2,000 participants combined concern for the environment with volunteer work.