Cooperated with Xingeng Workshop, KPMG volunteers are going to get involved in a community project which aims to care about the lonely elderly in Jiangning community near to our Shanghai office. This programme lasts for 6 months and volunteers will visit the elderly in person and via phone regularly to show care and concern to these elderly.
In April 2011, KPMG volunteers joined the Operation Smile medical team to deliver free surgery to more than 100 children who were born with cleft lip and cleft facial deformities in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. KPMG volunteers assist the International Medical Volunteer Team via communicating with the patients and their families before, during and/or after the surgery, recording patient details, taking photographs for posterity, and helping with on-site coordination
In May 2011, Tianjin University, receiving substantial business advisory support from KPMG, ranked second in 2011 SIFE China Regional Competition - Final. We congratulated on the team and were proud of their great success.
From September to October, 2011, over 40 KPMG China staff joined the volunteer missions in Yunnan and Gansu Hope Schools and KPMG-CCTF Community Centre in Sichuan. The volunteers got trained by Junior Achievement and carried out lessons on environmental protection and fundamental concepts of trade and commerce to students. The missions broadened the horizons of the students and the volunteer team received unforgettable experience of "doing great things with great people".
In June 2011, representatives of NGW students and graduates paid visits to KPMG Beijing office and KPMG Shanghai office respectively. Our partners and staff shared their experience and presentation skills with NGW students to equip them for better career development.
On 15 May 2011, 16 KPMG volunteers from the Shanghai office visited the China Maritime Museum with 40 migrant school students from Jiuqian Volunteer Centre to learn about things such as navigation, sailing the ocean, and how to make a model ship as well as enjoy a mini-concert performed by some migrant students.
In 2010, KPMG China achieved a significant carbon emission reduction of 19 percent per full-time equivalent in China compared to the 2007 baseline. In the coming five years, using 2010 as the new baseline, the firm’s target is to reduce its emissions by a further 15 percent by 2015.
KPMG China raised over RMB 8 million, including employee contributions plus dollar-to-dollar matching from the KPMG Foundation, and USD 120,000 from other international member firms. KPMG China staff donated over 7,000 hours of volunteer work to quake relief and recovery work.
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Total contributions exceeded USD300,000, including nearly RMB 1.4 million from staff and dollar-for-dollar matching from the KPMG Foundation.
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Donations have been made to the Red Cross Society of China and Hong Kong Red Cross to assist in mobilising Japan Red Cross Society's emergency relief, recovery and disaster preparedness efforts.
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Photo source: Red Cross |
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An appeal went out to all KPMG China staff in August 2011, and RMB 440,486 was raised including the dollar-for-dollar matching from the KPMG Foundation.
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The funds were channelled through the KPMG Foundation to World Vision and Médecins Sans Frontières, which was used to provide food, supplies and medical assistance to the affected population, as well as measles vaccination campaigns that have been started in Somalia, which have already vaccinated almost 3,000 children.
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Photo source: MSF |