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150 Years Elevating Lives – DB Schenker moves for WeForest
DB Schenker celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2022. The commemorative activities throughout the year kicked off in January this year: With the theme of “150 Years Elevating Lives”, employees are encouraged to participate in body and mind activities, during which, the mileage generated will be converted into charity donations to promote ecological and environmental protection.
150 Years DB Schenker
DB Schenker celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2022. The commemorative activities throughout the year kicked off in January this year: With the theme of “150 Years Elevating Lives”, employees are encouraged to participate in body and mind activities, during which, the mileage generated will be converted into charity donations to promote ecological and environmental protection.
As part of our 150th anniversary, DB Schenker will partner with four carefully selected NGOs committed to fulfilling the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with one assigned to each quarter.
DB Schenker Moves for WeForest
During the first quarter, DB Schenker partnered with NGO, WeForest, donating more than 300,000 euros, which will be used to support WeForest’s reforestation and forest conservation projects in Brazil and Ethiopia, as well as local sustainable development projects.
Together with WeForest, we support projects to protect the environment and drive forest conservation. In Desa’a, Northern Ethiopia, we support the reversing of desertification and poverty through forest landscape restoration. In Brazil, we help restore the Atlantic Forest and protect watersheds to bring back wildlife.
Recently, at an official handover in Frankfurt, Germany, Christian Drenthen, Board member for Land Transport of DB Schenker, officially handed this sum of donation to Jessica Calmers, Director of Partnerships at WeForest.
In this video: DB Schenker have engaged its employees to participate in the Leading the Way challenge, and donate the money won from mileage accumulation through walking, doing sports, or participating in online activities. A total of 30 million kilometers have been accumulated to support the forest conservation project in Ethiopia and Brazil, a way to energize the sustainability of communities and environments we survive on.
For 150 years, DB Schenker has been advancing lives by shaping how the world connects. Driving innovation, connecting communities, and shaping a sustainable future to make the world a better place. That’s what we call “Elevating lives”.
Upcoming charity projects will include ocean and air protection, and social initiatives, with more partnerships to be announced for the remaining quarters of the year. Please stay tuned!
About WeForest
Established in 2010, WeForest develops holistic and multi-stakeholder reforestation projects through a Forest and Landscape Restoration approach. Their vision is of a world where communities and nature sustainably thrive together to stop global warming ‘in our lifetime’. Their mission is focused on conserving and restoring the ecological integrity of forest landscapes with local communities to deliver lasting solutions for climate, nature, and people. Today WeForest has over 40 000ha (47 million trees) under restoration across 3 continents.