Earning the respect of the communities where we work is vital to our goal of being admired for our people, performance and partnership. Chevron supports educational, environmental, health and other social programs in China and provides grants to nonprofit organizations that meet local needs.
Improving Education and Training
Working through the Spring Bud program, managed by the China Children and Teenagers Fund, Chevron helps young women from low-income areas continue their education. Spring Bud has helped several hundred students in Sichuan, Hebei, Xinjiang and Shanxi.
Chevron's Caltex business supports programs that benefit needy children and families. In Hong Kong, Caltex provides a wide range of activities through Caltex Project Chance—a program sponsored by Chevron and organized by the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong. These efforts broaden the learning opportunities for children living in poverty. Since 2005, more than 600 children have joined the program. Chevron has sponsored the association's Innovation Carnival at Science and Technology Parks since 2010. The annual weeklong event gives children the opportunity to learn about technology in their daily lives.
Chevron and our employees donated funds that helped reopen the Nanba Number 2 Primary School in 2011. The school was destroyed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2012, Chevron contributed funds to rehabilitate the Jianshe Village School and the Luowen Home for the Aged.
In 2012, Chevron partnered with Mercy Corps, which initiated a three-year effort to improve the lives of people in Luowen township in Sichuan Province. The project focuses on young people by developing employment opportunities and offering vocational training while it works to improve farming incomes.
Protecting the Environment
In China, Chevron is a key sponsor of the Jane Goodall Institute and supports the Roots & Shoots program, which organizes environmental and animal protection activities, including classes outside of school. At the Roots & Shoots China Summit 2012, Dr. Jane Goodall presented Achievement Awards to outstanding environmental groups, volunteers and projects and recognized Chevron for contributions made over the years.
Serious water shortages affect people living in China's arid western region. Chevron partnered with the China Women's Development Foundation in a project that creates water cellars and provides drinking water for farmers. In the past few years, Chevron donations have benefited more than 500 families in western China.
In the town of Zishui, in Chongqing Municipality, Chevron assisted the local government with a waste management education program.
Improving Public Health and Safety
Since 1997, Chevron has supported Operation Smile, which provides free surgeries to correct facial deformities for children living in disadvantaged regions throughout China. So far, Operation Smile has helped treat more than 23,000 children in the country.
Chevron supports an HIV public awareness program run by the Red Cross Society of China. The program aims to reduce discrimination toward people living with HIV, prevent the spread of the disease and provide care for those who are infected.
Caltex Project Chance also helps improve the social and emotional development of needy families. The program promotes better parent-child relationships and improved health for children. The program also links families with community support groups.
Chevron donated a heart monitor/EKG/defibrillator to the Xiaba Health Clinic, which supports more than 190 relocated families in Pingyuan Village, near the site of the Chuandongbei Gas Project gas processing plant.
In response to the hazards that pedestrians, particularly children, face on rural roads, Chevron supported the Asian Injury Prevention Foundation in launching the Kai County Walk Wise Project in 2012. By the end of the year, the pilot project had taught road safety courses to nearly 1,000 primary school students. The program is expanding in 2013.
Starting in 2011, Chevron Hong Kong sponsored a charity function organized by local nongovernmental organization Bridge2China. Money was raised to build footbridges in remote villages in China. The bridges allowed people to travel safely and efficiently, enhancing economic activities.
Updated: April 2013
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