OREANDA-NEWS. More than 18,000 employees of SCM Group took part in Let's Make Ukraine Clean campaign in 73 cities. This is the first corporate volunteering project for the Group.

On 20 April SCM Group’s employees helped to make their cities cleaner and greener by engaging in the national campaign, Let's Make Ukraine Clean. DTEK joined the initiative as the national partner, while other holdings of SCM Group including Metinvest, Mining Machines, ESTA Holding, Parallel-M Ltd, Portinvest, UMG and SCM management company also supported the drive.

The "environmental army" cleaned parks, public gardens and beaches from waste, planted trees and painted bus stop shelters. The action geography included Lvov, Ivano-Frankovsk, Vinnitsa, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, Odessa and Kharkov oblasts as well as Crimea and Kiev.

"This year I can rightly call the year of launch of corporate volunteering at SCM Group. Our biggest holdings successfully implement various projects in this field but their engagement in Let's Make Ukraine Clean is the first example of corporate volunteering across SCM Group," said Natalya Yemchenko, director of PR and communications at SCM. "I am truly happy that the first volunteering practice is a success: thousands of our people joined the event as they wish indeed to make their cities better. In fact both senior managers and average workers took part in the clean-up.

Facts and figures

18,000 employees

Collected 2000 tonnes of waste

9 Ukrainian oblasts, Crimea and Kiev