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17 december 2024

The city of Svobodny was chosen as the venue for holding the end-of-the-year meeting of the Amur Regional Office of the National Corporate Volunteering Council (NCVC) where leaders of the region's volunteering movement’s programs along with activists of volunteering organizations took stock of the results of their joint efforts in 2024 and went over their plans for 2025.

The results of the work that had been performed by the volunteering community were presented by Elena Snezhko, head of the Formula for Good Deeds, SIBUR's social investment program, and Chairwoman of the Amur office of the NCVC. The Council’s 2024 activities were supported by 26 companies and non-profit groups of volunteers representing Blagoveshchensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, and Tsiolkovsky. They were also joined by representatives of Gazprombank, Gazpromtrans, Russian Post, G.M. Fadeev Svobodnenskaya Children’s Railway, as well as Amur Oblast’s Resource Center for Advancing Volunteering. Working together with the Government of Amur Oblast, the Council organized the 2nd Forum of Corporate Volunteers held under the motto of "Common Values in an Era of Change: Preserve and Multiply". The forum brought together more than 120 volunteers, of whom six were presented with letters of commendation signed Vasily Orlov, the Governor of Amur Oblast. TV presenter and eco-blogger Irena Ponaroshku joined the Forum as its inspirational speaker.

In all, more than six hundred Amur Oblast’s residents had taken part in various corporate volunteering activities organized and supported by the regional NCVC office. Some of the highlights included volunteering campaigns to support elderly wards of the Lada Comprehensive Community Services Center, assistance to homeless animals cared for by Do Good, Svobodny’s non-profit organization for the protection of animals, monthly citywide Separate Waste Collection campaigns, and a festival of ice postcards Miracles on Ice. In addition, the Amur Office acted as one of the partners of the Clean Park volunteering campaign that was carried out by Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Pipeline Operations Department in Svobodny. SIBUR’s becoming the recipient of the corporate volunteering award “For Contribution to the Advancement of the NCVC Partnership” represents yet another major achievement stemming from the joint efforts of all parties concerned.

Elena Snezhko, Head of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, Chairwoman of the Amur NCVC Office:
"I would like to thank all the participants of the Amur NCVC Office, our corporate volunteers, and partners for supporting and taking part in our charitable projects and activities! Your willingness to help and commitment inspire us all to keep on going and continue helping those in need. May you all enjoy the best of health, happiness and love in your hearts, and have the inspiration for performing new good deeds in the new year!"

As part of their experience exchange, the members of the regional office presented their organizations’ best corporate volunteering practices. These included presentations made by the leaders and activists of volunteering movements of the Amur Gas Chemical Complex, the NIPIGAZ Engineering Center, the Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Pipeline Operations Department in Svobodny, the Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), Amur Oblast’s Regional Branch of the Social Fund of Russia, and Amur Oblast’s Rosreyestr Office.

The members of the corporate volunteering community then took part in a brainstorming session held with a view to generating ideas for next year’s plan of activities and campaigns. The Council’s plans for 2025 include: holding the 3rd Forum of Amur Oblast’s Corporate Volunteers, continuing to provide assistance to the elderly wards of the Lada Comprehensive Community Services Center, assisting homeless animals cared for by the Do Good non-profit, participating in separate waste collection and cleanup campaigns, and getting corporate volunteers involved in major city-wide holidays and festivals. Work is also going to be performed in several new areas of focus including campaigns seeking to help children in distress and teambuilding activities for teams of volunteers.

Svetlana Alferova, chief internal communications expert of Russian Post’s Far Eastern macroregion:
"Russian Post’s volunteering movement in the Far East counts more than 100 activists. Once you become a volunteer, you start realizing that it is more challenging to help other when you are acting alone. We joined the Amur Office of the NCVC in order to be able to act in a more concerted fashion, to share our experience with corporate volunteers from other organizations in the region, and provide quality assistance to those who need it. We look forward to getting engaged in a truly fruitful cooperation."

Tatyana Yeremina, head of salary projects of Gazprombank’s Svobodny Branch:
"We at Gazprombank’s Svobodny Branch would like to express our appreciation for getting invited to become a part of the larger NCVC team in Amur Oblast. Year in and year out, Gazprombank has been implementing various charitable and sponsorship projects that aim to support vulnerable groups, as well as culture, science, education, sports, and non-profit organizations. And so now we have joined a large and cohesive team of corporate volunteers in Amur Oblast, too. We believe that by acting together we are getting stronger, and as a result the number of good deeds that we are able to perform will be growing. We are open to taking part in new projects, ready to get involved and make the world around us a better place."

To find out more about the activities of the Amur Office of the National Corporate Volunteering Council and to join the volunteering community, go to the community’s group on the VKontakte social network. Proposals for new joint volunteering initiatives can be submitted to: volonter@formula-hd.ru.

Background:

The Amur Office of the National Corporate Volunteering Council was established in 2021 with the participation of SIBUR and the Government of Amur Oblast in order to combine and align the efforts of companies, volunteering centers and non-profit organizations for the purpose of advancing the best volunteering practices in the region.

Geographically, the office is made up of representatives of 26 companies and volunteering centers from Blagoveshchensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, Tsiolkovsky, and other districts of Amur Oblast, including Amur Gas Chemical Complex, NIPIGAZ, Otkritiye Bank, Gazprombank, Gazpromtrans, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk’s Pipeline Operations Department in Svobodny, MTS, Amur Oblast’s Regional Branch of the Social Fund of Russia, Russian Post, Amur Oblast’s Rosreyestr Office, Belogorsk Locomotive Depot (a part of Russian Railways), Sberbank, Philip Morris Sales & Marketing, Vostochny Cosmodrome, as well as experts from local volunteering and resource centers and charitable foundations.

Further information about the Council's activities is available on its website.

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