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On and around June 8, 2019, Citi Canada celebrated its 14th annual Global Community Day (GCD) with nearly 1,000 employees participating in 18 events in six cities across Canada. Since the inaugural Global Community Day in 2006, Citi volunteers have contributed more than 32,000 hours in Canada. Citi employees are more engaged than ever in supporting the communities where we work and live through a variety of activities related to health, environmental sustainability, poverty and homelessness.
Canada's biggest GCD event took place at the Lakefront Promenade Park on Saturday, June 8, with more than 425 employees from the Toronto CSC in Mississauga helping to collect garbage and plant trees for the community to enjoy.
The country-wide impact on communities was significant, with 19 events across six time zones.
In Calgary, employees volunteered with Inn from the Cold, Friday, June 7, an organization providing shelter, sanctuary, and healing to assist homeless children and their families achieve independence. Calgary volunteers also spent time with the Mustard Seed, an organization serving people experiencing poverty and homelessness. On June 8, volunteers sorted and organized donations in their Resource Sorting Centre.
More than 50 employees in London, Ontario, worked with ReForest London on Saturday, June 8, to help clean up a local park by weeding, mulching and checking on tree collars to help improve tree survival and growth. On Monday, June 10, Citi volunteers helped to run the Special Olympics event for elementary school children with the Thames Valley District School Board and employees also plan to participate in the Big Bike Ride for Heart and Stroke on Saturday, June 14, by riding a 30-seat bike for 3 km around London to support heart disease and stroke research.
In Toronto, employees participated in several events, including providing career coaching for new immigrants with ACCES Employment and making greeting cards with children to help fund Indigenous programs with DAREarts in late May.
Employees also travelled to Tommy Thompson Park with Citi CEO Mike Corbat to help rebuild downtown Toronto's largest conservation area by planting 1,500 shrubs and 400 flowers to replenish the native ecosystem.
At Ronald McDonald House, Toronto, on Thursday June 6, volunteers prepared and served a meal for 135 parents and children providing them with a healthy, home-cooked meal after a long day at the hospital.
Thirty employees also helped the Toronto area’s poverty-stricken, homeless and hungry with the Daily Bread Food Bank on Friday, June 7, sorting 750 pounds of food which feeds 300 families.
In Vancouver, Citi volunteers made their way to Belkin House Homeless Shelter, on Saturday, June 8, to clean the shelter and to prepare and serve food to the homeless.
To wrap up Citi Canada's Global Community Day efforts, employees in Montreal have partnered with The Montreal General Hospital Foundation Run for Women on Saturday, June 15, to help support women facing mental health challenges.