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Alcatel-Lucent Makes A Difference In Cambodian Community
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Employee volunteer initiative is part of Alcatel-Lucent 'International Days of Caring'.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009:
Alcatel-Lucent set aside one day during a recent senior leadership conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to implement a major Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. The 150 participants, across section of the company’s senior leaders in Asia Pacific, gave their time to build 45 houses for poor Cambodian families in Veal Thom village, outside of Phnom Penh.
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The programme is part of the Alcatel-Lucent International Days of Caring (IDOC) project, a worldwide employee volunteer initiative (4 May-30 June 2009) addressing key community needs and issues. IDOC provides an opportunity for staff to be directly engaged in local community work to help those in need.
The initiative was organised in conjunction with Tabitha Cambodia, a non-profit organisation set up in 1994. Tabitha helps poor Cambodian families participate in a micro-banking programme that helps them work their way out of poverty. When local families save $30 toward a new home, they are eligible to participate in Tabitha’s house building programme. In this case, Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific provided all the additional funds, around $960 per house, to purchase the building materials for 45 houses, as well as one day of senior staff time to build fully funded houses for 45 families, or some 240 individuals.
“We chose Tabitha because they gave us an opportunity to get involved and make a difference through the work of our own hands,” said Sean Dolan, president, Alcatel-Lucent, Asia Pacific. “At Alcatel-Lucent, CSR means more than acting ethically, it also means providing opportunities for our employees to become involved and demonstrate day after day, the company’s concern for society.”
The Cambodian project caps a range of Asia Pacific staff community activities that include: Australia -- employees serving as guides during open days and community events at a science museum; China -- charity sales events in Shanghai and Chengdu to support communities and families devastated by last year’s major earthquake; India -- partnering with NGO’s to volunteer at orphanages in India; helping with life skills training for disadvantaged youth; organising collections for clothing and money; North Asia -- arranging for high school students to spend a day with employees at the office to give them exposure to the business world; and South and South East Asia -- donations to blood banks.
Alcatel-Lucent has been operating in Cambodia since 1992 and is a major supplier of GSM equipment and solutions to Mobitel.
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