Worldwide volunteers

This year, ACCIONA'S annual Corporate Volunteer Day extended its geographic reach and covered seven countries at the same time. A total 350 employees and 7,000 schoolchildren are the main players in an initiative designed to take sustainability into the classroom.

For the second year running, ACCIONA organized its Volunteer Day, a special one-day corporate volunteering event in which employees take part by leading sustainability workshops for school children between the ages of seven and eleven. This year 350 employees volunteered, 20% more than last year, and more than 7,000 youngsters benefitted from the event in seven countries, namely Spain, Mexico, Chile, Canada, Brazil, Australia and Poland.

ACCIONA employees turned up at a hundred or so participating schools and used activities and games to give a two-hour lesson aimed at giving youngsters a practical and fun grounding in issues such as how to save energy and water, how to make better use of natural resources, the basics on renewable energy, and others. Among other activities, the youngsters worked out their daily water consumption and built their own mini-wind generator and home-made solar oven.

Games and workshops are used to encourage school children to take on an active role in sustainable development

This year ACCIONA extended the event's geographic reach: last year it was held in Spain, Mexico and Chile; this year it also reached out to school children Canada, Brazil, Australia and Poland.

ACCIONA Volunteer Day 2013 stems from the Company's Sustainability Master Plan (SMP 2015), as part of a policy aimed at disseminating the sustainability values that ACCIONA puts into practice in its Sustainability Workshop, among other channels. The Workshop is a free learning program for participating schools, and includes training for teachers and guided tours of a range of ACCIONA facilities such as wind farms, R&D centers and water treatment plants.