Aims
Systematically record all community projects worldwide in which we as a company or our employees are involved. Identify best-practice projects.
Measures
Establish an internal contact network.
Facts and figures
In fiscal 2009, Linde sponsored over 20 separate projects at Group level. Our South and East Asia RBU donated over 100,000 euros to emergency relief efforts following the floods in Pakistan in 2010.
Next steps
Report all community involvement projects worldwide.
Activities in Europe, Americas and Asia
In Great Britain and Ireland, our sense of corporate social responsibility is expressed mainly through education and medical research. This is flanked by employee involvement in community projects in these countries. In Great Britain, for example, we match the donations made by our employees to charitable causes. In the UK and Ireland Regional Business Unit (RBU), we also support selected community involvement programmes.
Although the South American economy is generally up-and-coming, standards of living still vary considerably throughout the region. We are committed to supporting the entire region, largely through numerous local community projects, many of which benefit from the direct and active involvement of our people. Donations and the personal commitment of our employees underpin our commitment to education, health and environmental protection.
North America, on the other hand, is one of the most highly developed and advanced regions. Many companies have traditionally focussed their activities on community projects – and we also take our responsibility to society very seriously in this region. Our activities include supporting the ill and disadvantaged and investing in professional training for young people in North America.
South and East Asia is regularly stricken by natural disasters such as strong earthquakes and/or the accompanying tsunamis, as well as widespread flooding. In the event of such disasters, we act as quickly as possible by contributing to emergency relief operations. One example is the donation made by our South and East Asia RBU towards the victims of the floods in Pakistan this year. In future, the community activities of the countries in this RBU will be bundled into a single programme called HELP. This stands for “Healthcare, Education, Local community development, Protecting the environment”, which are the four areas on which all future initiatives and projects will be focussed.
topCommunity involvement programmes
Our community involvement and community investment programmes provide the overarching structure for our corporate social responsibility activities in the South Pacific and Africa RBUs. In Australia and New Zealand, the programme essentially comprises three sponsoring projects. These offer assistance to children suffering from cancer (Redkite Initiative), promote road safety awareness among school children, and support environmental projects focusing on water protection in particular.
In South Africa, our subsidiary Afrox is bound by law to show a sense of Corporate Responsibility. Companies must prove that they comply with a strict corporate governance codex before they can do business with public bodies or government authorities in this country. However, long before legal Corporate Responsibility requirements were even put into place, Afrox had already founded the Community Involvement Programme (CIP) that gives employees the opportunity to support community projects run by local organisations. Our engagement here includes implementation of the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) guideline, a donations programme, support for a vocational welding school, as well as support for the education and training of underprivileged students.
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