The Director General of Communication and Corporate Affairs and Member of the Community Service Committee of Saudi International Petrochemistry Company (Sipchem), Abdullah Al-Hariri, talked about several challenges facing the social responsibility sector in the Eastern region such as the absence of legislation, and lack of awareness of the importance of the sector.
Al-Hariri, during a meeting that was held by the Center for Social Responsibility in Asharqia Chamber at its headquarter on Wednesday February 27, 2019, reviews the company's experience and journey towards sustainable social responsibility, in the presence of the Secretary General of the Chamber Abdulrahman bin Abdullah Al-Wabil and a number of businessmen and interested individuals.
He said that the absence of the pillars of the national transformation from any initiative provided to supporting companies or donor institutions is an indication that the party roams outside the squadron.
He pointed out that the Vision of the Kingdom 2030 is a fundamental framework that must surround every project or community initiative.
Al-Hariri pointed out that Sipchem's strategic principles of social responsibility are based on entrepreneurship, health care, environmental, social welfare, sports, education and cultural programs.
He stressed that the company supported social responsibility programs in the period from 2008 to 2018 by more than 30 million riyals.
He revealed that Sipchem continues to implement social responsibility programs by allocating 1 percent of its net profit to support social responsibility projects in accordance with clear policy and criteria.
Regarding Sipchem innovative club, Al-Hariri said that the club adopts a methodology of participation and brainstorming, design and construction through its interlocutor, which deals with artificial intelligence, programming, barcode and three-dimensional printing.
The Academy also works to discover students' talents and intellectual energies that to serve the environment around through enhancing the principle of sustainability and recycling of things for the manufacture of products, care and attention to talented students and work to raise their levels of technical and skill, and the dissemination of digital culture and three-dimensional printing and robot and programming.
On the outputs of the Academy, he pointed out that the activities and programs of the Academy resulted in 5760 hours of voluntary work, 120 child beneficiaries, 240 visits received by the club from various quarters, 30 volunteers participated in the organization and training, 32 innovative ideas and projects, and 12 temporary posts.
In conclusion, the guest speaker was honored with a memorial plaque.
