the activities is varied - playing with children in special education kindergartens, entertaining the elderly in nursing homes, volunteering to help at summer camps, volunteering at animal shelters and more. Over the course of 5 weeks, the youth experience valuable activity and receive compensation for their time. This activity connects the 'next generation', the children of employees with their parents' workplace and thus strengthens the employees' sense of pride and connectedness. In the summer of 2021, despite the constraints of Covid-19, and the termination of some of the designated volunteering sites, over 1,100 youth participated in 250 volunteering activities all over the country. Over the summer of 2022, more than 1,200 youth participated in the various activities! All activities are part of the ongoing corporate plans and are reported within the 'Corporate Responsibility Report'. Employee volunteering that is done outside of working hours receives organized support from the employee volunteering unit, whether in terms of financial assistance or other means, such as donations of computer equipment, furniture, and the like. Assistance is also provided in locating and recruiting volunteers for organizations that have inquired for such, on an hourly basis. What motivates us is the desire to do good - for as many people as possible, to integrate as many volunteers as possible towards good causes, and to actualize the company’s potential for community contribution to achieve maximum impact.
The 'Summer Youth' project combines employees’ children in organized volunteering, at hundreds of locations throughout the country, during their summer break. How did it all begin? For many years, employees’ children of working age were employed during the summer vacation. About 9 years ago, it was decided that instead of engaging in work within the bank, they would be directed to associations and organizations that need volunteers in the summer months, for pay. Two months in advance, employees would register their children between the ages of 15- 18, for the volunteering opportunities offered to them - a list that includes approximately 300 options across the country. The types of
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