Charity

Corporate charity program «Together we can help!»

Raiffeisenbank is strongly committed to involving its employees in charity . Through the corporate programme «Let’s Help Together», every employee has a chance to make a personal contribution to our common cause.

Applications for charitable support are initiated by the employees themselves. An important condition to application approval is the initiator’s involvement in the proposed charitable project as a volunteer or a donor. When the application is approved, information about the project is published on the bank’s internal site and in our corporate journal. A period of time is fixed for the collection of funds, and then the funds collected by employees are doubled by the bank.

As of today, the programme «Let’s Help Together» supported two projects. Notably, the funds collected for each of them considerably exceeded the proposed amount.

In mid-2008, the support offered by Raiffeisenbank’s employees and the funds collected within the programme «Let’s Help Together» allowed to help the Malakhov hostel for starblind children repair their game room, acquire medical and educational equipment, furniture and creature comforts. As the collected funds considerably exceeded the amount required, the hostel was additionally supplied with beds and computers.

In late 2008, the programme helped collect the funds to acquire a children’s playground for Kolomenskiy Children Tuberculosis Hostel. The collected funds exceeded the proposed amount by nearly 100%, allowing to purchase both a higher quality playground for children and to buy a special «dry swimming pool» with soft balls for babies.

Other projects:

2010

• In May, Raiffeisenbank’s southern Russian division organised the large-scale event «Victory Day» in all cities in the region where the bank works (Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, Sochi, Anapa, Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Volgograd, Volzhsk, Stavropol and Pyatigorsk). Bank representatives and employees were among those at «Eternal Flame» sites to present veterans with momentos commemorating their service during the war (more than 1500 veterans).
• In May in Taganrog shortly before Victory Day, Raiffeisenbank employees organised charitable assistance (various gifts) for veterans unable to participate in the Victory Parade due to physical disability.
• In April, the Bank took part in a charitable mini-football tournament for children with Down’s Syndrome. The Bank’s team took second place, losing to a parents’ team in the final. Thanks to the tournament, more than RUR 1.5 million was collected to help provide early assistance for children with Down’s Syndrome, helping to fund efforts by teachers, psychologists and other professionals to continue providing free assistance to nearly 1800 families.
• In early 2010, Raiffeisenbank provided charitable support to the project «Building Bridges — Cameras in Children’s Hands,» which helps integrate disabled children into the broader society of their contemporaries.

• Charity — project archives