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Corporate Social Responsibility
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Corporate Social Responsibility
We believe that the success of a company should not only be measured in terms of financial variables. We feel that we have the right and the obligation to dedicate part of our time and resources to provide society with values and oportunities that will generate knowledge and opportunities for personal and professional growth and development.
For this reason, we have created the everis Foundation, an increasingly important platform for recognizing and developing human capital.
In addition, every year we participate in various campaigns with social objectives such as the creation of schools and libraries in places where they are genuinely needed.
everis Foundation
The everis Foundation was created in 2001 in Spain with the purpose of cooperating with society, primarily via universities in order to develop human capital and spread knowledge about information technologies and their application in the business world.
The main objective of the everis Foundation is the realization, promotions and advancement at every level, of education, teaching, training, research and professional re-training in IT.
For further information see: Fundacion everis
Environmental Management
everis has developed a policy of environmental responsibility and respect following an environmental management system based on the ISO 14001 Standard (November 2004) and which is implemented by our employees, clients and suppliers.
Pollution prevention, reducing consumption of natural resources, responsible waste management and recycling are just some of the principle objectives that identify everis as a socially responsible company.
Fair Trade in collaboration with Intermon Oxfam
Each year we have a tradition of celebrating Christmas by giving our clients a special present. The present selected for December 2006 was in collaboration with Intemon Oxfam.
This action forms a part of our social corporate responsibility which reflects the everis´ attitude and commitment to society as a whole.
Uganda (Africa) is one of the poorest countries in the world, lacking sanitary infrastructure, schools and food. In addition, conditions are even worse for women (kidnaps, rapes...). For this reason everis has collaborated with Intermon Oxfam in a programme of social reintegration for Ugandan women, with the aim of promoting a fair salary which will guarantee a better life and participation in the development of the Ugandan population.
The present selected was a "Batik" - hand-painted pictures representing scenes taken from local daily life -. Each Batik is completely unique due to its production process. This procces takes a long time because it uses materials such as wax and different natural dyes layer on layer, each time waiting until the layer has dried.
The campaign has helped to improve the lives of these Ugandan women and for everis represents an investement double that of the previous year.
"Donate a dragon" – Creation of a library in Argentina
In December 2005, everis launched a Christmas campaign with a social action.
Traditionally, everis offers clients a Christmas gift of a book. This year the gift was a sculpture inside a box.
The special feature of this action was that the box had a dual function: first to deliver the sculpture and then as a second step to be used to deliver children´s books. In this way we encouraged our clients to send any books that they may have had somewhere “forgotten” at home to contribute towards the creation of a library that everis was seting up in the region of CATAMARCA – Argentina.
Having completed this first phase of the campaign, everis continued the initiative extending it to its professionals, and in the months of April and May 2006 boxes were distributed throughout the our offices so that employees could deposit their books there.
The campaign was a complete success and over 2,500 books were sent to the newly created library in Argentina.
