ANALYSIS
ArcelorMittal Foundation’s Global
Volunteerism Model
Since 2010, the ArcelorMittal Foundation has offered ArcelorMittal employees the chance to contribute their time, skills and part of their annual leave
to helping a community in another part of the world
than their own. Global volunteers work alongside
local ArcelorMittal volunteers, strengthening their
sense of solidarity as coworkers and as compassionate human beings who want to make a difference.
Volunteer employees from Macedonia have participated from the very beginning.
The first “Solidarity Holiday” involved a small group
of employees travelling to the Saraya region of Senegal to help support a mobile clinic for communities
living near the company’s mining operations. The
clinic was the only available medical care for these
communities during the rainy season, when cases of
malaria increase. Solidarity Holiday volunteers provided logistical support to the mobile clinic, distributed medicine, conducted malaria tests and provided basic patient care. Thanks to the success of this
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first trip, more volunteers went to Senegal in 2011
and 2012. Another mobile clinic was also set up in Liberia in 2011.
Global volunteers work alongside local
ArcelorMittal volunteers, strengthening
their sense of solidarity as coworkers and as
compassionate human beings who want to
make a difference. Volunteer employees from
Macedonia have participated from the very
beginning.
Following the success of the first project, the ArcelorMittal Foundation collaborated with Habitat for Humanity International to organize Solidarity Holidays
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