Otis's Voluntary Action in Latin America Benefits Amélia Rodrigues Institution

Otis’s Voluntary Action in Latin America Benefits Amélia Rodrigues Institution

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Published on 26/04/2023 at 17:27

Fonte: Divulgação

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Otis Leadership Collects Toys And Books

Last month, a volunteer action involving Otis leaders in Latin America, including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Mexico, and Central America, resulted in the collection of around 1,000 educational toys and books.

These items were donated to the Amélia Rodrigues Institution, an NGO located in Santo André.

Ongoing Support For The Amélia Rodrigues Institution

Since 2017, Otis has been supporting the Amélia Rodrigues Institution, whose mission is to transform the reality of children and adolescents from low-income communities through education and social assistance.

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Otis ESG Goals And Community Impact

As part of Otis’s global ESG goals, the company aims to dedicate 500,000 hours of volunteering from its teams by 2030. This effort is focused on supporting communities, STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), and promoting social equity.

The volunteer action carried out by Otis leaders in Latin America is a concrete example of this commitment and of how the company seeks to make a difference in the communities where it operates.

Otis’s Voluntary Action in Latin America Benefits Amélia Rodrigues Institution

Otis Leadership Collects Toys And Books

Ongoing Support For The Amélia Rodrigues Institution

Otis ESG Goals And Community Impact

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Otis’s Voluntary Action in Latin America Benefits Amélia Rodrigues Institution

Otis Leadership Collects Toys And Books

Ongoing Support For The Amélia Rodrigues Institution

Otis ESG Goals And Community Impact

Engineers want to carve through Africa with a giant canal to bring water from the world’s second-largest river to a dying lake on the edge of the Sahara Desert that has already lost 90% of its water.

Dissatisfied with seeing people sleeping on the street, a man named Ryan Donais started building small mobile homes so that homeless people can escape the cold, each equipped with a bed, running water, electricity, and heating.

Workers were opening a modern road in Dover when they found, 6 meters below the asphalt, a 3,500-year-old boat made of stitched oak and plant fibers.

A giant brown band visible from space, approximately 8,850 kilometers long, connected Africa to America in the Atlantic Ocean, and satellites revealed that it is neither land nor pollution, but the largest accumulation of seaweed in the world, which broke records in 2025.

Two 17-year-old Kenyans use coconut shells, corn cobs, and recycled materials to create an exhaust filter that reduces 93.3% of pollutant particles and wins an environmental award in Africa.

Consumers eat six times more chicken than in the 1960s, global meat supply quadruples in 60 years, and FAO report reveals the invisible cost on the plate: livestock could drive 80% of the increase in agricultural emissions over the next decade.

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