Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate social responsibility: We care for our neighbours

Canada

Employee volunteering

In Canada, our employees devoted a whole day in 2007 to helping in the community. Each employee was asked to sign up for an activity. Options included working at local food banks and soup kitchens, building equipment for children's activities as well as homes for abused families and troubled young people. Some 500 employees provided help for twelve community organisations in the Burlington and Hamilton areas.

Biberach, Germany

The works safety team at Boehringer Ingelheim's Biberach site in southern Germany came No. 2 in the 2007 Baden-Württemberg Social Living (Soziales Leben) competition out of 1,200 nominations. The employees used their free time to help the physically or mentally disabled with moving house, home decoration, social occasions and outings. This takes place in cooperation with the Heggbacher Einrichtungen, a highly-regarded local care facility.

Indonesia

In Indonesia employees volunteered to build up a local orphanage with a free learning centre for needy children.

Portugal

Boehringer Ingelheim employees in Portugal participated in 2007 another project with Habitat for Humanity, helping to build homes for those most in need. This was highlighted in the prestigious Portuguese economic magazine Exame as an example of ambassadorship in social work.

South Africa

In South Africa, the staff of the Boehringer Ingelheim Medical Department in 2007 conducted their third annual Do It Day event, refurbishing the pre-school dining room and kitchen of Kids Haven, a residential and rehabilitation shelter and village for street children, and other children at risk, in Benoni, east of Johannesburg. The maintenance and upgrading of Kids Haven's building underlines to the children that they matter.

sub-Saharan Africa

In sub-Saharan Africa, our employees actively support many and varied community projects. Prominent among them in Botswana is the partnership with the government to build an infectious disease care clinic at Gumare. The hospital, opened in 2007, serves the community in a country severely stricken by AIDS.

Over 300 employees from our UK operation spent a full day off-site in 2007, rejuvenating local parks and derelict spaces, repainting children's playgrounds, helping out at an animal shelter and constructing new garden buildings for a charity that helps people with learning disabilities.

Ridgefield, USA

In one of the US projects in 2007 our employees took part in a Day of Caring with the Local Way organisation in the area around our site at Ridgefield, Connecticut, where we also support a mobile clinic.

St. Joseph, USA

	Employees in our Vetmedica site in St. Joseph, Missouri, distributed toys and clothes to underprivileged children and donated food to a local shelter.

Last update: 11.04.2008