UPS SA staff put in volunteer hours across the country

286 United Parcel Service (UPS) employees in South Africa will join their global UPS counterparts and aim to donate 315 000 volunteer hours by the end of this month to community service efforts through the company’s annual Global Volunteer Month. This represents a 5% increase over last year’s monthly hours total.

Employees can offer their time to support a wide range of activities including teaching safe driving skills, aiding local communities devastated by disaster and offering educational and leadership development training at a range of local organisations.

Belinda Gault, HR manager of UPS South Africa, said that through working directly in their own neighbourhoods, employees in each region best understood their communities’ specific needs and Global Volunteer Month was seen as an opportunity to meet these needs.

“We focus our volunteer efforts in our organisation’s key regions locally – Gauteng, Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth – and it continues to work extremely well in terms of making a sustainable impact in some of the country’s poorest communities. While we believe in providing ongoing support to our chosen initiatives, the need is often so great that our various regions from time-to-time take on new initiatives and in that way try and spread the aid and support around,” she said.