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Contributing to local community development
97% of our employees are hired locally in the 80 countries where we operate. By establishing long-term partnerships, Sodexo seeks to play an active role in local community development.
We will fight hunger and malnutrition through our STOP Hunger initiative in all the countries where we operate by 2020.
Sodexo’s STOP Hunger Initiative
As part of our commitment to the communities where we do business, Sodexo launched the STOP Hunger initiative to fight hunger and malnutrition. Since 1996, teams have been focused on this effort, working to change the fact that more than one billion people suffer from hunger and malnutrition every day.
The STOP Hunger initiative has four major focus areas:
- Volunteering: encouraging and supporting Sodexo employees' spirit of service to support hunger relief initiatives in their local communities.
- Sharing Sodexo expertise: providing nutrition, food safety, food waste education, and job and life skills training for disadvantaged people.
- Food donations: donating perishable and non-perishable food to hunger relief organizations.
- Financial donations: sponsoring and supporting programs that combat hunger and malnutrition.
Around the world, entire Sodexo communities, including employees, consumers, clients and suppliers are joining forces to make a difference and end hunger. In 2011, 42 Sodexo host countries were involved in hunger relief efforts, conducting 469 major STOP Hunger programs in collaboration with 385 NGOs and associations.
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Read more about the focus areas and the current locations of our STOP Hunger efforts.
For additional details, please see:
- Read the press release STOP Hunger Servathon 2012
- Sodexo STOP Hunger brochure which presents our global initiatives around the world.
- Sodexo Servathon: Sodexo employees working to end hunger by volunteering in their local communities each April.
- The Better Tomorrow Plan by Sodexo, Sodexo’s global sustainability roadmap
Our employees engaged in the fight against hunger
Discover the testimonials of Numan, Oscar, Elisana, Jun and Victoria who actively participate in the STOP Hunger Servathon and contribute to make every day a better day for those in need.
STOP Hunger Servathon
Sodexo organizes the STOP Hunger Servathon each April, an operation that mobilizes our employees to work in their communities and engage with local partners to help fight hunger and malnutrition.
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The Better Tomorrow Plan
Sodexo is committed to sustainable development and has defined a worldwide roadmap: the Better Tomorrow Plan
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