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Chevron’s Anar Aitekenova is pictured conducting a cooking class at Almaty orphanage in Kazakhstan.

Members of Chevron Knitting Club presented almost 100 warm vests, hats and scarves to children from the Almaty orphanage.

Tengizchevroil employees and their families joined the campaign ‘Plant a tree,’ organized by the Yntymak Volunteer Organization, at the Speech Impaired School in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.

Sightings of olive ridley sea turtles were reported soon after 300 Chevron volunteers and residents held the 10th annual coastal clean-up along the terminal coastline in San Pascual, Batangas, in the Philippines. About 2.4 tons of litter was cleared from the beach.

In October 2018, the International Products’ leadership team visited local food charity, Food from the Heart. A total of 19 volunteers dedicated their time to packing 183 food packs that were sent to families and schoolchildren across Singapore.

The XYZ Network Singapore recorded 60 volunteer hours to help 97 direct beneficiaries learn basic circuitry to build robotic insects. Conducted in partnership with Science Centre Singapore, the event created awareness of Chevron Singapore’s signature social investment, Caltex Fuel Your School.

As part of their team-building efforts, the International Products’ Legal team of 29 volunteers contributed 101.5 volunteer hours to Willing Hearts, a soup kitchen that provides meals to some 5,000 Singaporeans in need.

Chevron employees contributed their time to tree planting and beautification of the landscape of Orphanage #10 in Almaty.

Chevron volunteers are seen digging an irrigation canal to prevent flood as part of We Volunteer in Thailand.

Indonesia Business Unit (IBU) dispatched two medical officers, Dr. Rahmat and Nurse Mike to Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia to join an earthquake emergency response team. The team was coordinated by SKK Migas, an industry regulator, to support local health authorities in providing medical services to the affected community.

Chevron Fayette County Operations employees volunteered to help a local Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter to replace veteran memorial markers in remote Appalachian Cemeteries. Chevron volunteers replaced over 100 flags in eight different cemeteries. Many of the grave stones are civil war and revolutionary era veterans.

Volunteers from our Gulf of Mexico business helped third to fifth grade children solve problems and create products using STEM principles during the National Society of Black Engineers Summer Engineering Experience for Kids held in New Orleans. Chevron volunteers logged over 130 hours and supported 300 students.

Chevron volunteers worked to fill 250 backpacks for local at-risk youth in need of supplies for the 2018-19 school year. The Northshore Food Bank in Covington, Louisiana, provides food assistance to more than 375 individuals and families each week who live at or below the poverty threshold.

Chevron volunteers aided in the construction of two Habitat for Humanity homes in Covington, LA. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with local people in need to build decent, affordable housing. Between Fall 2017 and Spring 2018, a total of 56 employees gave 359.5 hours to these projects over three days.

Since 2009, Chevron Richmond volunteers have hand crafted 902 hats, scarves and other items for clients of the Greater Richmond Interfaith Program. Employees have volunteered at the Greater Richmond Interfaith Program on nearly a weekly basis since 2002.

For World AIDS Day 2017, 145 employees in San Ramon assembled 5,700 personal hygiene kits that are being distributed to clients of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Cal-PEP.

Each month, Salt Lake Refinery employees volunteer at a mobile food pantry that provides food to nearly 100 families at a neighboring elementary school.

In cooperation with the Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center, Chevron volunteers in Louisiana are helping to breed, hatch, and rear whooping crane chicks to supplement the wild population. In 2017, Chevron volunteers spent 146 hours to help keep the habitat sustainable for breeding programs.

Chevron summer interns from around the U.S. came together for a volunteer day benefiting the Kern County Museum. Employees painted the walls inside the Bud and Virginia King Volunteer Center. Some 15 gallons of paint were applied to 15-foot walls in an 1,800-square foot room.