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supported. These received a total of € 5,000 from the Tatra banka foundation and the employees donated their
time to the organizations’ activities during the following year. The organizations selected in this process were
announced in December 2016.
One activity as part of the corporate volunteering program involved building wooden boxes for small birds, bats
and falcons because of the decline in the number of trees in the woods of Slovakia with many animals needing
natural hollows for nests, and therefore, to survive as a species. Working in groups and guided by the written
instructions provided to them, the employees used nails to assemble the protective houses.
Social initiatives
The majority of the projects carried out during the reporting period were social initiatives. In conjunction with
various national and international cooperation partners (such as Caritas and Red Cross), socially disadvantaged
children and young people, along with single women, were those primarily offered aid.
RBI AG has been supporting a wide range of Caritas
projects for many years. The basic pillars of Caritas
are similar to Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen’s cooperative
ideas: Both are about helping people in different living
situations at a time of need. For this reason, in 2017
RBI AG raised funds in the amount of € 20,000 for the
MOMO mobile children’s hospice, founded in 2013.
When a child is suffering from a life-threatening or
terminal illness, MOMO takes care of families using a
holistic approach. A team consisting of pediatricians,
a palliative care physician, pediatric nurse, health
psychologist, social worker and physiotherapist, as
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well as volunteer hospice attendants, support the families from the time of diagnosis. The support can be short-term,
but can also last for years. The MOMO children’s hospice is exclusively funded from donations and the services
are free of charge. So far, it has been able to help every family in need of assistance.
In 2016/2017, Raiffeisenbank (Bulgaria) EAD carried
out the fundraising initiative “Choose to help” for the
eighth time. This year-round initiative collects funds for
the support of sustainable social projects in the areas
of health and environmental protection as well as
culture and education.
Employees of Raiffeisenbank are actively involved in
the bank’s fundraising initiatives. This gives them the
opportunity to participate in the donations as well.
The objective of “Choose to help” is to promote the
spirit of charity as a moral human value among
employees and customers. A total of 22 projects were
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supported in 2017 in the areas of health, social issues, the environment, culture and education. The initiative has now
received 17 CSR awards. The year-round initiative is able to provide support thanks to multiple donation channels:
through the websites www.izberi.rbb.bg and www.pay.dir.bg as well as through donations sent by text message.
The ninth fundraising campaign started in fall 2017 with the presentation of new projects and programs.