Chevron is active in community development in Bangladesh through activities and programs that focus primarily on quality education, health care services, capacity building and safety training. We provide resources that help the people of Bangladesh gain the skills needed to improve their standard of living while preserving their culture.
Chevron carries out most of these projects in partnership with leading nongovernmental organizations. Employees also play key roles in reflecting the company's values in community development by regularly participating in Habitat for Humanity projects, planting trees and donating blood.
Chevron currently supports:
- An Alternative Livelihood program in the area of the Bibiyana and Moulavi Bazar gas fields, which provided 1,800 families with training and assets to help start new businesses.
- Three Smiling Sun clinics, which we established to provide health care services to approximately 7,000 villagers per month near the Bibiyana and Moulavi Bazar gas fields.
- A sanitation program that improves local health and hygiene conditions for 1,900 families near the Bibiyana and Moulavi Bazar gas fields.
- The planting of 120,000 trees in greater Sylhet and Dhaka.
- An eye care program that in 2007 provided more than 500 people with medicine, spectacles and cataract operations.
- A Road Safety Awareness program that offers training to local drivers.
- Relief and primary health care for victims of Cyclone Sidr, which hit southern Bangladesh.
Chevron also is involved in improving educational opportunities. In 2008, we provided additional teacher support at four schools, funded 581 scholarships for financially disadvantaged students, and supported a pre-primary program that serves 390 students in 13 schools. Other forms of educational assistance included an endowment fund, school uniforms, sports equipment and school furniture.
Updated: March 2009