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Hutchison Ports PPC, aware of its role as a Socially Responsible Company, values the importance of conservation for the community and the environment in which we live and operate, took part on April 15^th in this year’s “Good Deeds Day” as part of its ongoing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The “Good Deeds Day” is an annual tradition of good deeds. All over the world, hundreds of thousands choose to volunteer and help others, putting into practice the simple idea that every single person can do something good, be it large or small, to improve the lives of others and positively change the world.

 

This year PPC’s “Good Deeds Day” initiative, “We can’t let the most beautiful thing in our industry die’, organized a beach clean-up activity to collect garbage that affects the health of wildlife, people and local economies near Port of Balboa and surrounding areas.  

 

PPC, worked this activity with the community of La Boca, The National Police, Environmental Non Profit Organizations and the International Maritime University of Panama (UMIP).  More than 120 volunteers rallied together with the common goal of collecting and documenting the trash littering the coastline near the Port.  The joint effort gathered around 1.5 tons of trash, mainly composed of plastic bags and bottles, maritime related debris, straws, paper, aluminium cans, tires and glass.

 

With CSR initiatives as “Good Deeds Day” Hutchison Ports PPC is proud to be committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a universal call of action in order to make our world a better place, end poverty, protect the planet, ensuring prosperity for all.

 

 

 

The National Government, through the Ministry of Education, invited PPC to participate in the “My School First” project, created to provide high quality education opportunities to Panamanian children.

PPC had the honor to participate with the transformation and improvement of the kitchen and dining room of this important school, where more than 1400 children, many children or relatives of our employees, attend daily. Employees, who live in this beautiful city where we develop part of our operations – Puerto de Cristobal.

This project consisted in the development of plans, remodeling of existing structure, construction of an additional area, general cleaning, electric work, plumbing works, equipment, among others.

For PPC these initiatives are of valuable importance. Education is a fundamental part of our pillars of Corporate Social Responsibility. From education it is possible to transform a society more effectively, helping to minimize the growing inequality and favoring the personal and emotional growth of all its members. In the same way with this project, we reaffirm our commitment to align our initiatives with the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations.

In Hutchison Ports PPC we are committed to the people of Colon, always being the guarantor of this type of initiative, which fosters educational development, providing the opportunity to generate a positive impact for society and family integration.

 

Hutchison Ports PPC, aware of the responsibility we have with the families of our employees and supporting  the education of theirchildren, we held our yearly event Veranito PPC.

In this initiative, more than 150 children attended, and were able to participate in games, group challenges, enjoy nature and adventure sports. In each of the activities, the importance of values was emphasized, which as integral citizens we must keep in mind; the importance of teamwork, communication and leadership was reinforced; qualities that will serve them for their future tasks.

The last day of the Veranito PPC, children were invited to visit the port and visit each of the areas where their parents work. PPC Volunteers team made presentations during the tour so that the children knew everything that is done in a port in terms of CSR, security, finances, environmental conservation, human resources, operations and much more. For the entire PPC team, it was really gratifying to see the children’s interest in learning more about the place where their parents work and the pride they showed.

With initiatives like this, PPC reaffirms its commitment to promote activities that improve health and well-being of all our employees and their families.