Employees around the world are active in community investment initiatives. We will increase recognition for outstanding community efforts during 2009.
As a major global employer, we support our people to actively contribute to social challenges. We have established CSR platforms appropriate for local, regional, and worldwide projects. Collective action, be it through our strategic partnerships with the United Nations, or through local community projects with clear goals, is part of our understanding of corporate citizenship. We are working to achieve strong positive results for society and our business. In 2008, we delivered measurable results across the globe.
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Myanmar, Cyclone Nargis
Two airports in Indonesia
Kwale District, Kenya
Exemplary community investment initiatives demonstrating how employees are involved in volunteering, fundraising, or in-kind transport, as well as sponsorshipCommunity investment initiatives
Thousands of our employees get involved in, and lead projects to support their local communities. They have an intimate understanding of the needs around them. Their projects generate a team spirit that they bring back into the workplace. At a global level, we support and recognize their efforts.
1Resources for libraries
Libraries are the focus of many employee-supported initiatives on different continents. DHL Express Korea provided free delivery of construction materials for the ST-EP foundation, part of the UN World Tourism Organization. It also sponsored two school libraries in Vietnam, by delivering 900 kg of educational supplies. In Brazil, DHL Supply Chain donated 10,000 books to 14 institutions following a two-month long book drive led by all 44 of our facilities.
2Brand new books to US schools
Great excitement greeted our delivery vans when DHL Express USA partnered with the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation to deliver new books to two elementary schools in Miami, Florida. The deliveries were part of the Foundation’s campaign to deliver 20,000 new books to 12 schools in the area.
3Supply drive in Spain
DHL Express Spain is the logistics partner of the Theodora Foundation. In 2008, we made over 400 shipments of educational material for “clown doctors” who visit hospitalized children. In addition, free shipping for five other non-profit organizations took building materials and educational supplies to schools as far away as India, Madagascar, and Nicaragua.
4Responding for Santa
A record number of letters flooded into Germany’s most popular Christmas post offices in 2008. Children sent more than 9,000 Christmas wish lists to the town of Himmelpfort (Pearly Gates, population 500) answered in 15 foreign languages. Overall, post offices across Germany received, and ensured an “official” reply to, over 280,000 letters.
5Helping KidsOut in the UK
When a mother leaves a situation of domestic violence, she and her children often leave everything behind. DHL Express UK’s charity partner, KidsOut, runs a “toybox scheme” for the Women’s Aid Federation of England and Northern Ireland, which sends boxes of toys to children who are re-housed as a consequence of domestic violence. DHL delivered more than 1,000 boxes for KidsOut in 2008.
6Connecting cultures in Oman
In 2008, the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, DHL again supported the Connecting Cultures expedition to Oman. For the third year, the five-day program brought 15 young people from six European and Middle Eastern nations to the Sharqiyah Desert. During their trek, the young people learned about Middle Eastern history and culture, intercultural discussion, and leadership skills.
7Planting trees and building cycle tracks in the Czech Republic
More than 40 employees participated in planting lime trees near Bras and in building a new lay-by for cyclists near Olomouc. The cycle track is a part of the Greenway Krakov–Moravia–Wien international cycle route. The employees levelled the surface around the wooden lay-by, prepared an access path from a road with gravel, and fixed wooden railings.
8Harnessing the sun for rural communities
DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) India initiated a project to install solar-powered street lights in rural areas. The lights ensure that the basic public lighting needs of villages are met. In another project, DGF Sweden shipped over 100 solar panels to Uganda for the organization “Insert Africa”. The panels will power a water treatment facility, and increase access to clean water.
9Humanitarian aid to Haiti
Four tropical storms hit Haiti in less than one month last fall. Our Caribbean, Guadeloupe, Haiti, and Aviation Americas teams joined together to send two flights packed with relief goods to Port-au-Prince. The flights delivered over 22,000 kg of goods from Red Cross Guadeloupe and from donations collected across the city of Miami, Florida.
10DHL delivers relief goods and supports recovery after the Sichuan earthquake
When the Sichuan earthquake struck in May 2008, employees at DHL-Sinotrans, DGF China, and DHL Exel Supply Chain China donated more than €200,000 and initiated emergency rescue and disaster relief efforts. In September, employees donated 10,000 schoolbags containing dictionaries, stationery and books to earthquake-stricken areas.