OREANDA-NEWS. September 02, 2011. Mechel (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, continues the tradition of providing corporate recreation for children of the Group’s employees, reported the press-centre of Mechel.

In line with Mechel corporate program on recreation and health rehabilitation for employees’ children, the company has this year, for the eighth year in a row, been providing trips to health resorts for the summer holidays.

Mechel’s enterprises cover most of the tours’ cost for their employees. In 2011, some 4,000 children of the Group’s staff benefited from the recreation and health program.

This year, over 3,000 children spent part of their summer vacations in recreation camps located in the regions where Mechel enterprises are located, including those camps belonging to the Group. Each of these facilities provided many opportunities for active recreation and health rehabilitation and made four sessions this summer to accommodate all of the kids.

Also, in August the company held its annual corporate children’s recreation program called “Mechel Country”. The company brought 962 children from every Mechel enterprise to the Black Sea coast resort in the Krasnodar Region’s Tuapse area. For the third year in a row the resort has offered a whole shift exclusively for Mechel children. Children were provided with five meals a day, care of professional counselors, sea swims, a trip to a dolphinarium, and various excursions. The program was oriented not only toward helping kids make friends, but also learn more about the enterprises where their parents work.

Children’s health and recreation are an important component of Mechel’s social and welfare programs. The company seeks to provide its staff’s children with the best available care and involve as many children as possible.