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MAXAM collaborates with Veloo Foundation by improving the living conditions of the most marginalized children of Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
2016.01.25
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MAXAM continues to expand its educational, social and community programs in Mongolia
For the third consecutive year, MAXAM is supporting Veloo Foundation in Mongolia, a local NGO that focuses on improving the living conditions of some of the most vulnerable children in Ulaanbaatar.MAXAM has been collaborating with Veloo Foundation by supporting the Peak Children’s Sanctuary Project, which provides help and outreach to the children living in Ulaanbaatar’s rubbish dump.
Currently, thanks to MAXAM’s aid, 125 children are attending nursery school with 17 teachers who offer quality education in a warm and comfortable environment. The Peak Children’s Sanctuary also offers library service, a spacious children’s activity area and a special center that protects local children who are being exposed to violence.
A spokesperson of the Veloo Foundation stated: “We are very fortunate to work with companies such as MAXAM which actively promote social responsibility. With this financial assistance, our nursery school is able to operate permanently and also reach out to many more children and their families. Besides, the assistance was not just mere charity but their kindness and thinking of others. Thus, we were able to conduct following programs with sponsors’ monetary and non-monetary helps.”
MAXAM Corporate Social Responsibility Policy
MAXAM believes in a higher standard and going beyond the obligations established by legal precepts in order to always work in a manner that is respectful with the environment and helps local communities flourish and develop. Leading companies must be active members of the societies to which they belong. By always being mindful of these matters, the goal is to guarantee both MAXAM’s individual growth, as well as that of the society where it operates.
MAXAM in Mongolia: Educational, Social and Community Programs
MAXAM Explosives LLC has been operating in Mongolia since 2006 and is committed to contribute to the sustainable development of Mongolia.
MAXAM Mongolia is the supplier of blasting solutions to Oyu Tolgoi, one of the world´s largest copper-gold projects. As part of the agreement to provide products and services to this mine, MAXAM Mongolia committed to implement a series of educational, social and community programs, which started on September 2011 and are currently ongoing.
Throughout the country, MAXAM has coordinated numerous community initiatives and provided assistance to organizations such as the Mongolian Women’s Fund which helps local women, reinforcing their integration within a humane, democratic and civil society in which they can participate in the political, economic and cultural spheres; the New Choice Children
Organization, which provides education, healthcare, homes and summer camps for the most underprivileged and orphaned Mongolian children; or Alpha Communities Orphanage, which similarly assists communities affected by poverty with locally organized initiatives.
MAXAM – www.maxam.net
MAXAM is an industrial and services group that operates globally, developing, manufacturing, and marketing blasting services and products and initiation systems for mining, quarries, and infrastructure; cartridges and powder for sport hunting; and products and services for the defence industry. It also provides the key raw materials for nitro-chemical activities, such as energetic nitrocellulose and ammonium nitrates, for internal use by MAXAM, as well as for sale to third parties. Lastly, MAXAM provides its clients with a series of solutions in the area of safety and the environment that have been generated as a result of the group's technological development in these areas.
MAXAM, founded by Alfred Nobel in 1872, finished 2015 with an annual turnover of 1.115 million euros. It operates in the main mining areas around the world, with manufacturing facilities in more than 45 countries and sales in more than 100 countries on five continents, with more than 6,500 employees.
Further information:
Lucas Ferreira
MAXAM
Communications Director
+34 91 722 01 00
lferreira@maxam.net
Louis Trollope
MAXAM
Communication Officer
+34 91 722 01 00
ltrollope@maxam.net
