Care-home clients will get a portable lifting device; the disabled will receive rehabilitation aids, and children from the children’s home will enjoy a recreational stay. Employees of the refining and petrochemical group, ORLEN Unipetrol, have fulfilled the wishes of clients served by seven non-profit organisations. In the tenth annual “Fulfilled Wishes” charity project, they had raised CZK 587,518 together with the company. Every year, ORLEN Unipetrol matches the sum collected, which then goes to specific purposes in selected organisations. The donation proceeds have totalled more than CZK 3 million over the initiative’s entire existence.
For the tenth year, ORLEN employees helped fulfil the wishes of people from non-profit organisations and donated a record-high of CZK 293,759. Like in the previous years, ORLEN Unipetrol matched the amount to the total of CZK 587,518. “I want to thank all our employees who joined the collection in these challenging times. Together, we will donate by almost CZK 80,000 more than last year, which is a fantastic achievement,” says Katarzyna Woś, Vice-Chair of the ORLEN Unipetrol Group’s Board of Directors and Chair of the ORLEN Unipetrol Foundation Board. She adds: “Our fundraising project, ‘Fulfilled Wishes’, has a long tradition. We held its tenth anniversary last year. Each year, we donate money to selected non-profit organisations in the locations where our Group is active. The raised funds help abandoned, disabled, or ill children and adults.”
The money raised will be distributed among seven non-profit organisations in six locations.
Whose wishes will come true thanks to ORLEN Unipetrol employees?
- Clients from the care home in Litvínov
The sum collected totalled CZK 190,692.
The donation will be used to buy an electrically driven lifting device and an electric portable
lifting device. Both devices will improve the mobility options for the care home clients. The
care home has also received 790 litres of disinfectants from the ORLEN Unipetrol Group.
- Disabled children and adults who are clients of the Kociánka Centre in Brno
The sum collected totalled CZK 99,642.
They will use the donation to purchase rehabilitation aids and aids for ergotherapy,
hippotherapy, and day-care centres.
- Children from the children’s home in Kralupy nad Vltavou
The sum collected totalled CZK 83,692.
The funds will be used towards a recreational stay for children.
- Small clients of the Early Care Centre in Pardubice and their parents
The sum collected totalled CZK 65,118.
The donations will be used towards special and didactic aids for disabled children.
- ORLEN Unipetrol Foundation
The sum collected totalled CZK 64,690.
The money will be allocated to support the education of children with socially disadvantaged
backgrounds.
- Disabled clients of the Borůvka organisation in Prague
The sum collected totalled CZK 46,842.
The donation will be used towards a work-training programme for the disabled and
employment support for the disabled. The ORLEN Unipetrol Group also delivered bottle caps
as part of a collection organised on the company’s premises.
- Disabled clients served by the ‘Pojďte dál’ association in Neratovice
The sum collected totalled CZK 36,842.
The funds will be used to buy new working aids and means for mentally disabled clients.
The ORLEN Unipetrol Group is the largest refinery and petrochemical company in the Czech Republic. It focuses on crude oil processing and on the production, distribution and sale of vehicle fuels and petrochemical products – particularly plastics and fertilisers. In all these areas, it belongs among the critical players on the Czech and Central European market. The ORLEN Unipetrol Group encompasses refineries and production plants in Litvínov and Kralupy nad Vltavou, Paramo with its Mogul brand in Pardubice and Kolín, Spolana Neratovice, and two research centres in Litvínov and Brno. Unipetrol also includes a network of Benzina ORLEN filling stations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With 416 filling stations, Benzina ORLEN is the largest chain in the Czech Republic. Since its entry in 2019 to Slovakia, Benzina ORLEN has been one of the fastest-growing chains and currently has 20 stations in its network. ORLEN Unipetrol employs more than 4,800 people. In 2005, ORLEN Unipetrol became a member of the ORLEN Group, the largest crude-oil processor in Central Europe. In addition to its business development, ORLEN Unipetrol is proud to be a socially responsible corporation. Therefore, it pays an equal amount of attention to initiatives, focusing on the cultivation and support of sustainable development, education, local communities, and the environment.
Contact: Pavel Kaidl, spokesman, telephone: +420 736 502 520, e-mail: pavel.kaidl@unipetrol.cz