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The first task of an employee volunteer group set up by Ford Motor Company will be to help to rebuild homes and other structures in areas devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
The Ford Volunteer Corps is an initiative intended to fulfil the company’s Better World corporate promise, and employees will be able to volunteer through it for corporate citizenship projects. It will embrace some existing programmes and may involve partnerships with community organizations.
The corps will work first with Habitat for Humanity International on three pilot projects in Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka to provide housing for people displaced and made homeless by the tsunami. Michael McCarney, Ford’s Far East president, said: ‘We must focus our efforts to help rebuild these communities.’
Steve Weir, Asia Pacific vice-president of Habitat for Humanity International, a 22-year-old social help group operating in 30 countries and territories, said: ‘We are delighted with this opportunity to partner with Ford and Ford employees to help survivors of the December tsunami. In the next two years Habitat for Humanity plans to help some 25,000 affected families move out of temporary shelter and back into decent, permanent housing.’
The Ford Volunteer Corps is an initiative intended to fulfil the company’s Better World corporate promise, and employees will be able to volunteer through it for corporate citizenship projects. It will embrace some existing programmes and may involve partnerships with community organizations.
The corps will work first with Habitat for Humanity International on three pilot projects in Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka to provide housing for people displaced and made homeless by the tsunami. Michael McCarney, Ford’s Far East president, said: ‘We must focus our efforts to help rebuild these communities.’
Steve Weir, Asia Pacific vice-president of Habitat for Humanity International, a 22-year-old social help group operating in 30 countries and territories, said: ‘We are delighted with this opportunity to partner with Ford and Ford employees to help survivors of the December tsunami. In the next two years Habitat for Humanity plans to help some 25,000 affected families move out of temporary shelter and back into decent, permanent housing.’
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