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UPS Spirit Changes Communities for the Better
Every day, UPSers are eyewitnesses to the social 
problems that challenge the communities where they work and live.
Homelessness, wayward youth, drug abuse, pollution and inequality are just a few of the problems drivers see on the highways and alleyways of their delivery routes. It’s no surprise, then, that UPSers want to be a part of the solution.
As a result, employees find ways to give their time and talents – nearly one million hours in 2006. Here are just a few of the ways UPSers help out:
- Planted trees in a Mexico City park
- Assembled packets of surgical equipment for export to charity clinics in Africa
- Built houses for Habitat for Humanity
- Filled backpacks with school supplies for needy children
- Restored a dilapidated playground in downtown Seattle
- Reengineered the delivery routes for a meals-on-wheels program
- Built a computer lab in India
- Provided onsite health assessments and information about nutrition to senior citizens in Hong Kong
- Stocked the shelves of food banks with canned goods and bread.
- Handled the logistics for the Paralyzed Veterans Games, ensuring that wheelchairs and other equipment were delivered on time for every sports event.
- Gave blind seniors a tour of the Great Wall of China.
Even more UPSers serve on boards or provide management guidance to non-profit organizations around the world. One UPSer from Australia spent three weeks in Indonesia on a humanitarian effort to improve food distribution capabilities of the World Food Programme in tsunami-affected areas; another UPSer served as a loaned executive to United Way to assist in their annual fundraising campaign. A UPS attorney dedicated four months full-time at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
The statistical information included here was current at the time it was published in 2007. To see more recent statistics, visit our pressroom.
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