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Global Community Day 2007
 
On November 17, 2007, more than 60,000 Citi volunteers, including family and friends, made a positive difference in their local communities all around the world.
 
While many Citi employees volunteer year-round in their communities, Citi's annual Global Community Day brings employees together as a global volunteer team on a single day. Teams worked across North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on a variety of projects addressing specific community needs including literacy, housing, environmental protection, nutrition, and health care.
 
Watch the Global Community Day 2007 highlight video.
 
Global Photo Gallery:
 
Click on one one of the locations below to see a few photographs showing a Citi volunteers in action around the world.
  • Asia Pacific
    Asia Pacific saw more than 17,350 volunteers working together at 210 events with an emphasis on the environment.
    In Thailand, teams of Citi volunteers and clients planted trees in Petchabun, Prachineburi, Chaplu Mountain, and Pathumthani provinces. In Guam, Citi volunteers hosted a holiday celebration at the Guma Trankilidat Seniors Center. At Tam Dao National Park in Vietnam's Vinh Phuc Province, Citi volunteers, even the smallest ones, helped to plant trees. In Guangzhou, China, volunteers ran English language sessions for children at the Zhongshan Library. In Hong Kong, volunteers worked at the Mai Po Nature Reserve.

  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa
    In Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 9,323 volunteers across 52 countries took part in 342 community events.
    In Germany, volunteers baked cookies with residents of a home for the disabled. In Israel, Citi volunteers entertained patients at a children's hospital. During 'Go Green Bahrain!', 210 volunteers planted trees. In Jersey in the Channel Islands, volunteers worked with the Jersey Youth Service at the Crabbe nature center.
    In Cote d'Ivoire, Citi volunteers held children as they were vaccinated by a professional medical assistant. In Russia, Citi volunteers brightened the day of children at a school in Moscow. In Greece, volunteers painted windows at the Pammakaristos Childcare Institute. In Soweto, South Africa, volunteers renovated the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre.

  • Japan
    In Japan, 1,091 Citi volunteers took part in 17 varied events.
    In Japan, 85 volunteers cleaned up the Arakawa River near Tokyo. In Okinawa, volunteers cleaned up the beach.

  • Latin America and the Caribbean
    In Latin America and the Caribbean, close to 14,000 Citi volunteers joined together to paint and refurbish classrooms, install donated PCs in new computer labs, plant trees, feed and visit with hungry and needy neighbors, rebuild an earthquake-devastated nursery school, fix up an orphanage, and treat needy and orphaned children to a day at the movies.
    In Brazil, Citi volunteers painted and refurbished São Paulo's Dona Pilar Garcia Vidal State School. In Quito, Ecuador, Citi volunteers planted 305 trees at Las Cuadras Park. In Venezuela, the Citi volunteers fixed up Nuņez Ponte High School. In Peru, 200 volunteers helped to restore an earthquake-damaged nursery school in Chincha.

  • Mexico
    In Mexico, over 12,000 employees worked together to collect 240 tons of food to help families in need. Additionally, over 1,500 employees, friends and family gathered together to clean up Chapultepec Park, the largest and oldest park in Mexico City.
    In Mexico, Banamex volunteers collected and delivered 240 tons of food for the needy. In Mexico City, 1,512 Banamex volunteers cleaned up Chapultepec Park.

  • United States & Canada
    In the United States and Canada, 14,127 volunteers participated in 326 events across the two countries.
    In the U.S., volunteers worked at a Habitat for Humanity build in Delaware. At New York City's High School of Economics and Finance, 250 volunteers proved what lots of heart and hard work can accomplish. In the U.S. in Orange County, California, 87 volunteers helped out at the We Give Thanks food bank. In Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, volunteers teamed up to support Variety, the Children's Charity.
    In the U.S. in Hagerstown, Maryland, volunteers painted at the Western Maryland Hospital Center. In the U.S. in Chicago, Illinois, volunteers partnered with the Greater Chicago Food Depository.