EDB receives a EUROBAK award for its annual environmental initiative
Almaty, 26 February 2014. Eurasian Development Bank received an award from the European Business Association of Kazakhstan (EUROBAK) for its annual environmental initiative — the EDB Ecological Patrol. The award in the Environmental Protection section was given to Oksana Petrenko, Deputy Director of Human Resources, at a ceremony which took place in Almaty last Friday. During the ceremony EUROBAK announced the winners of its project — companies and organisations with a proactive position toward corporate social responsibility.
The project included 32 participants and 51 initiatives. The selection criteria included the number of socially orientated projects and the number of people they influenced or helped to make a change for better living.
The first EDB Ecological Patrol took place in 2011 in Almaty Region. EDB employees and local activists cleaned up the archaeological site of Tamgaly Tas near the River of Ili from garbage. Next year the clean-up was arranged on the Malaya Almatinka River’s Terrenkur promenade, which one of the most popular leisure places in Almaty. Six other cities of the EDB member states joined the initiative in addition to Almaty: Astana, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Minsk, Yerevan and Dushanbe. In 2013 the EDB Ecological Patrol planted Schrenk’s spruces in the Medeu state regional nature park, which was damaged by a storm in 2011.
Additional Information
European Business Association of Kazakhstan (EUROBAK) is a non-commercial organisation set up in Kazakhstan in 1999 on the initiative of European companies and the European Union. EUROBAK unites over 150 international, European and Kazakh companies and diplomatic missions from European and other countries.
Eurasian Development Bank is an international financial institution founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with the mission to facilitate the development of market economies, sustainable economic growth, and the expansion of mutual trade and other economic ties in its member states. EDB’s charter capital exceeds US $1.5 billion. The member states of the Bank are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan.
Read more about EDB at https://www.eabr.org