Chevron’s Volunteer Week marks 10 years of giving back

CHEVRON Philippines, Inc. (CPI), marketer of Caltex fuels and lubricants, recently celebrated 10 years of doing Volunteer Week, an annual five-day initiative to invest time, resources and energy in social issues that matter to employees, customers and communities.

“Volunteer Week is a celebration of volunteerism, a core value of Chevron, in which employees and other Chevron business partners are encouraged to work for the progress and improvement of communities where it does business. Employees volunteer time and energy to be a part of projects that positively impact the children, youth, disadvantage people and environment,” stated Louie Zhang, CPI country chairman.

During Volunteer Week, CPI employees, contractors and business partners leave the confines of their workplaces and volunteer to tackle concerns about the environment, health, safety, education, and livelihood in Chevron’s host communities.

Road safety for students, skills training for at-risk youths, art therapy for sick kids, homes for the homeless, planting trees, caring for the aged, inner city murals, school renovations, literacy programs, beach cleanups and disaster preparedness; these are just some of the activities that have benefited more than nine hundred thousand people in the 10 years that CPI has been doing Volunteer Week.

During the most recent Volunteer Week, more than 500 Chevron volunteers engaged in a variety of charitable community work. Starting with volunteers helping train stay- at- home moms and out- of- school youths in home- based soapmaking business.

CPI employees also hosted music therapy for pediatric cancer patients while parents had nutrition lecture and group counseling sessions. Elementary kids from Batangas were taught the importance of road-safety through role-playing with the volunteers.