Viva Energy employees carry out 1,100 community Good Deeds
Every year people from nearly 100 countries unite to do good deeds for others as part of globally acclaimed Good Deeds Day. Employees at Viva Energy, the first Australian corporate organisation to commit to Good Deeds Day, magnified the initiative to create Good Deeds Week for the company.
Between Monday 27 March and Sunday 2 April more than 750 Viva Energy employees across Australia donated more than 650 hours to participate in 1,100 good deeds.
In addition to supporting 20 partners as part of Viva Energy’s national Community Program, employees identified community projects that were close to their hearts and developed programs aimed at improving the lives of others. Over the course of Good Deeds Week Viva Energy employees:
- Donated a total of 45 pints of blood to the Australian Blood Bank and Australian Red Cross
- Packed 400 envelopes in three hours for Give Where You Live
- Made 250 birthday cards for foster kids supporting the Pyjama Foundation
- Collected and delivered over 200 non-perishable food, baby items, sanitary products for the homeless for various community partners including headspace, the Period Project and Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
- Provided career advice to young people from Viva Energy’s National Community program partner headspace across Australia.
Viva Energy Chief Executive Officer, Scott Wyatt said: “This is the second year that Viva Energy has championed Good Deeds Week and I’m delighted that so many people across our organisation embraced the opportunity to give back to the community.
“One of the greatest things any of us can do in life is a good deed for someone else. By volunteering and helping others, we are able to put into practice the simple idea that every single person can do something good, be it large or small, to improve the lives of others.”
For more information visit www.vivaenergy.com.au
24th April 2017
