Litvínov, 14 November 2011 – The donation from Unipetrol worth 35,000 crowns will be used by the Most Leisure Centre to purchase equipment for the gym, which also used for sports activities by the maternity centre section. Visitors to the centre can look forward to new gym mats, balance beams, benches and a vault. The maternity centre is designated primarily for parents with children up to six years of age.
“Within the framework of support, Unipetrol focusses on social, educational and ecological projects. This area includes providing assistance to facilities that take care of children and youths. Apart from cooperation with the Most Leisure Centre, we also donated CZK 100,000 this year to the reconstruction of the children’s playground in the garden of the Karel Havlíček Borovský Preschool,” said Piotr Chełmiński, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Unipetrol.
“We are trying to create a positive attitude towards sports and athletics among children from a very young age. The funds received from Unipetrol will substantially help us increase the activity of sports clubs and activities organised for children from three years of age,” said Eva Martinovská, Director of the Most Leisure Centre.
Since 2011, the Ministry of Education, Health and Physical Education has excluded the age group of children up to six years old from the financing of extracurricular education. By supporting the maternity centre within the Most Leisure Centre, Unipetrol wants to contribute to the development of sports clubs, which are crucial in terms of the physical and mental development of the smallest children. The Most maternity centre is visited by more than 150 children up to the age of six years every week.
Unipetrol helps in the Ústí nad Labem region
This year, Unipetrol donated a total of 1,550,000 crowns to towns and municipalities in the Ústí nad Labem region. The funds provided by the Unipetrol group were used among other to equip the children’s playground in the garden of the Karel Havlíček Borovský Preschool in Most, with a donation of 100,000 crowns. The building of parking places and reconstruction of the support wall in Hora Svaté Kateřiny required 65,000 crowns. Another substantial donation of 300,000 crowns will be used to equip the chemistry lab of the Secondary School with extended language lessons and the Preschool in Litvínov.
Unipetrol also cooperates closely with the Ústí nad Labem region, to which it donated 2 million crowns for public welfare projects this year. Over the long term, the company also supports the Educhem secondary school. Most recently, the company provided the school with a donation that was used to purchase educational supplies such as a data projector, chemicals for experiments in chemistry class, computer equipment and additional sport equipment for physical education.
UNIPETROL, a.s. is a group of companies operating in the petrochemical industry in the Czech Republic. In 2005 UNIPETROL became a part of the PKN ORLEN Group, the largest oil processor in Central Europe. The UNIPETROL Group is oriented mostly towards oil processing, fuel distribution and petrochemical production. In all of these business areas the UNIPETROL Group is among the key players both in the Czech Republic and on the Central European market. The Group ranks among the leading firms in the Czech Republic in terms of its revenues, and employs almost 4,000 people.
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