As part of the fourth annual UPS Global Volunteer Week, Oct. 14-22, UPS employees are donatingtheir time and talents to help local communities by taking on such tasks as repairing schools and
reading to children to assisting food banks and landscaping for community organizations. The effortextends from Asia and Latin America to the United States and Europe.“UPS delivers packages to doorsteps and a helping hand to local communities,” said UPSChairman and CEO Mike Eskew, who will lead a walk for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation inAtlanta. “Our employees are good neighbours and Global Volunteer Week reinforces our legacy ofvolunteerism.”
UPS’s Global Volunteer Week is an extension of the company’s long-standing commitment tovolunteerism and marks the culmination of volunteer work performed by employees all year longthrough UPS’s global volunteer program, Neighbor to Neighbor.
Since 2003, the week-long community service initiative has grown from roughly 1,000volunteers in 2003 to more than 20,000 employees expected to participate worldwide this year.
Local UPS employees choose their own Global Volunteer Week projects because employees bestunderstand the needs in their own communities. The program this year will include volunteer effortssuch as:
* More than 500 hours coordinating a baseball tournament for blind and visually impairedchildren in Taiwan.
* Nearly 2,000 hours renovating schools and shelters in Germany.
* An estimated 6,500 hours across the United States providing logistics support for the SusanG. Komen Race for the Cure fundraising walks for breast cancer research.
* And more than 100 hours sorting food for food banks in Montreal Canada.
