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  Ukraine CSR Bulletin
September 25, 2007
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In this issue of Ukraine CSR Bulletin, Avon battles breast cancer in Kyiv, Dobrota and small businesses help a school for the blind in Slaviansk, British American Tobacco invests in a local community in Priluki and Atlant-M employees donate blood. For more information about Corporate Social Responsibility, click here. |
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Avon Walks Against Breast Cancer in Kyiv
Avon Cosmetics Ukraine will host the One Day Walk for Life to promote healthy lifestyles, early cancer detection and support for breast cancer survivors. The walk will take place in Kyiv on October 6 in recognition of October as Breast Cancer Awareness month. Each year, over 15,000 new cases are detected and 8,000 women die of breast cancer in Ukraine. This event will not only raise awareness of the need for early detection, but also raise money to purchase new diagnostic equipment for breast cancer screening. Corporations as well as individual participants and spectators are encouraged to participate. For more information, including contact information, please visit http://en.avonprotyraku.org.ua/.
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Dobrota Coordinates Assistance to Boarding School for the Blind in Donetsk oblast
Corporate philanthropy is not just the business of major corporations according to the Donetsk City Charitable Foundation Dobrota. In cooperation with Public Youth Organization, Dobrota worked with more than 20 small businesses in Donetsk Oblast to donate more than 10,000 UAH of goods to the Slaviansk city boarding school for children with visual impairment on September 16 in a project titled, "To Hear is to See." Participating businesses included private entrepreneurs, travel agencies, building companies, stores and others. Local media and advertising agencies also participated to raise awareness of the efforts. During a party to celebrate the donation, the NGOs handed over Braille paper, special audio players and more than 100 audio books, as well as other school supplies and food. More than 140 visually impaired children from three oblasts in eastern Ukraine attend this school. Due to the success of this pilot project, Dobrota will continue to collect contributions from the Donetsk community to implement a new project, "Seeing through Your Heart," to continue to support the school. Click here for more information (in Russian). |
British American Tobacco Invests in Municipal Development
On 4 September, 2007, British American Tobacco Ukraine opened an Enterprise Support Center in Priluki, a small town near Kyiv where they have a factory. The center will provide free consulting and trainings for local business owners. The center was made possible by collaboration with the local government and British American Tobacco Ukraine, with assistance from the United States Peace Corps in Ukraine. In 2006 British American Tobacco Ukraine and the Priluki Town Council's Executive Committee signed a memorandum of agreement to form a long-term partnership between the town and the company to develop a strategic plan for the town. British American Tobacco believes in adding value to the communities in which they operate and investing in the local economic, social and cultural development of these communities is a key principle of their "Framework for Corporate Social Responsibility." Click here for more information (in Ukrainian). |
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Atlant-M Employees Donate Blood
International automobile holding company "Atlant-M" organized its second blood drive in three countries on September 7. Employees in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus went to their local blood banks for "Donor's Day." In Kyiv, 32 employees made donations. The Russian branch of the company initiated the idea to organize a blood drive and it was later supported by the rest of the offices to offset a critical shortage in local blood supplies. In the past year, 152 participant employees in all three countries gave 40 liters of blood. In Kyiv alone, 200 individuals need donated blood every day, according to the company's press release. Read more here (in Russian).
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