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Corporate citizenship has never been more important to our businesses and the communities in which we live.
We are a global business operating in 145 countries, with an amazing reach with the skills and the passion to make a difference, where we work and where we live.
We work with the largest companies, most successful companies throughout the world. That’s why we have made a commitment through our global green initiative. To work more efficiently, more effectively, to be more friendly to our communities and the environment in which we operate.
It’s a fantastic privilege to be part of KPMG, nearly 130,000 incredibly able, very bright, very energetic, very committed people and at the heart of KPMG is a commitment to our communities.
We want to set the pace on corporate citizenship, we want to lead change and we want to be involved in dynamic solutions that change the societies in which we work.
At the core of our commitment to the communities is the principle that we want to provide opportunities that enable our people to make a difference in their cities, their villages, their towns, their communities, their nations.
That we should be prepared to move the needle forward on the big questions that trouble our world, like climate change and poverty, and that we should have a strategy which empowers people to use their skills as well as to use their hands.
So we’ve joined forces with organizations at the front line NGOs like UNICEF, like World Vision, like Save the Children, like Oxfam, and the Millennium Cities Program. Getting our peoples skills lined up with the issues of deprivation and need, of educational development and structure, and giving ways in which we can make a difference for the poorest people in the world.
Take the case of what our people in China are doing, in the case of the recent earthquake, providing money, providing skilled people to organize the earthquake relief effort.
Numerous examples came out of Kenya during the recent troubles where our firm got along side the Red Cross and gave up many weeks to do direct poverty work, working with people who have been damaged from the violence, rebuild their lives and get their jobs back into work.
Or folk in the United Kingdom program who work on ‘Every Child a Reader program and numeracy schemes that the UK firm has developed as well as the commitment to building an academy in the north of London.
Commitment to our communities is all about making sure that KPMG’s people can use their skills in a tangible, practical, realistic and continuous way.
Everyday people in KPMG are making a fantastic difference to the communities in which they live and the places where our offices are, and the countries in which KPMG works closely with our clients and closely with our communities who understand that corporate citizenship is an opportunity and a privilege, it’s a right and a responsibility. That we’re privileged people and we have the chance to give back, to get engaged and to make a difference.