Outokumpu supports over 100 voluntary projects in neighboring communities

As a part of Outokumpu’s social responsibility actions in 2019, the company sponsors over 100 diverse voluntary projects in its neighboring communities around the world. With the one-time initiative including small monetary support, Outokumpu celebrates the remarkable response rate of 86% in its 2018 Organizational Health Index survey, in which employees shared their opinion on how to improve Outokumpu to become an even better workplace.

Outokumpu supports projects which the employees are actively involved in and contribute to the surrounding, lively communities. Outokumpu employees proposed globally over 200 initiatives from which the sponsored projects were selected locally.

“When deciding how to celebrate this outstanding participation in our annual OHI survey, it was easy to choose an initiative that allows us to share our success with the communities around us and at the same time attend to our social responsibility. Many of our employees are very actively engaged in versatile voluntary work in their communities. With this initiative, we want to support their pursuits and demonstrate that it is not just the company and our employees but also the neighboring communities that we care about”, says Johann Steiner, EVP – HR and Organization Development.

The selected projects include for example community projects, such as replacing batteries in people's fire alarms free of charge during the open house day at the Torshälla fire station, Sweden, and providing basic personal hygiene products and food to the Orphanage Corazon de Misericordia in Mexico. Also, charitable organization projects and local voluntary initiatives were selected, e.g. supporting group of volunteers knitting woolen socks for the elderly in Tornio, Finland, for Christmas 2019 and organizing a fire safety training for children in Dillenburg, Germany. In Poland Outokumpu supports purchasing alternative communication equipment called The Speaker Program for a local primary school for disabled children in Dabrowa Gornicza. In Italy, the company supports purchasing equipment for ambulances in Castelleone. Support also goes to Magnolia Breese Youth Ensemble in Calvert area, Alabama US, which is an all-inclusive therapeutic marching band for children with special needs and disabilities to purchase instruments and uniforms.

Hockey Camp in Kemi-Tornio, Finland

A children's hockey camp in Kemi-Tornio, Finland is one of the supported initiatives 

Published Apr 16, 2019