Corporate Responsibility at DHL
Corporate Responsibility is a core element of our corporate strategy. Acting responsibly as a company means we treat our employees, the environment, the interests of society and the capital that has been entrusted to us in a manner that is respectful and sustainable. Only in this way can we be successful in the long term.
Disaster Management
During the SARS outbreak of May 2003, DHL-Sinotrans launched the “Love Express” Service in Shanghai, providing free express service for medical teams from the Second Military Medical University to designated hospitals for SARS cases in Beijing Xiao Tangshan. They also donated camera mobile phones to the university’s 63 medical personnel.
During the tsunami in 2005, DHL provided global aid to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. DHL Asia Pacific provided assistance in relief activities through flight charters to the five tsunami-affected countries in Southeast Asia.
In January 2005, DHL initiated a fundraising campaign through its global network for relief efforts following the tsunami in Southeast Asia.
In 2005, DHL-Sinotrans assisted in delivering 200 emergency packs to flood-ravaged areas in Jinxiu Coutnty, Laibin City, Guangxi Province, under the support of World Vision Initiative.
In November 2005, DHL-Sinotrans and its employees had initiated a staff donation drive, eventually raising RMB 200,000 for the reconstruction of a school in Jiangxi province which had suffered severe damage from an earthquake.
In summer of 2006, DHL-Sinotrans delivered 325 emergency kits and packages for children to flood-ravaged areas in Hunan Province within 24 hours of the disaster’s occurrence.
Since the earthquake hit Sichuan on May 12, all of the DHL-Sinotrans colleagues expressed concern on suffered people and our brothers and sisters in Southwest Cluster especially Chengdu branch. While keeping a close eye on the progress of the earthquake rescue, DHL’s three business units in China donated more than RMB 2 million to support the disaster relief in the worst hit area. DHL also shipped over 2000 containers of relief supplies to the hit areas for free.
Future Generation
In May 2004, DHL supported the “Soccer in a Box” project under World Vision Initiative (an international non- profit charitable organization), featuring the joint participation of Bayer, Sports Beijing, and some individual volunteers. Together, the team subsidized, purchased, and delivered 161 boxes of football items to Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, and other remote areas.
In autumn of 2004, DHL again supported the “Soccer in a Box” project under World Vision Initiative, delivering 70 boxes of sports items to seven regions in provinces such as Xinjiang and Guizhou.
In autumn 2004, supported by Department of Education in Shenyang, DHL provided free and discounted air express service for financial aid students who were going to college after the College Entrance Examinations.
In June 2005, under the support of World Vision Initiative in Mongolia, DHL delivered 20 boxes of football items to kids in more than 20 schools in Mongolia.
In April 2005, DHL continued to support the “Soccer in a Box” project, delivering 197 boxes of sports items to remote and impoverished areas.
In August 2006, employees in DHL-Sinotrans’ Southern Area initiated a volunteer program to donate books in support of the ‘DHL-Sinotrans Hand-in-Hand Library.’
In May 2007, DHL-Sinotrans’ Tianjin branch office launched the “Love Delivery” campaign, which donates 1 RMB with every client’s order to the SOS International Children's Village in Tianjin.
In June 2007, as a partner of Special Olympics International, DHL provided logistics support for the Law Enforcement Torch Run of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai and the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Boise, Idaho. Under the Special Olympics, DHL escorted the "fire of hope" across the world for the first time. DHL staff, family, and customers, mobilized for the Special Olympics and assisted city law enforcement personnel in carrying the torch. This act expressed DHL’s sports mentality and undying support for the Special Olympic Games.
In July 2007, DHL celebrated the partnership with NBA’s Basketball without Borders (BwB) Asia and the launch of the BwB Special Olympics Clinic for intellectually disabled children. During the event, DHL donated basketballs, sportswear and other sport items to intellectually disabled children from Yangfan School in Yangpu district and Qizhi School in Zhabei district, Shanghai, to launch its “Basketball in a Box” program, which is co-sponsored by NBA, Special Olympics and basketball manufacturer Spalding.
“Small Schoolbag for a Big Future: DHL Dream Bag Initiative” was initiated by DHL-Sinotrans and China Children and Teenagers’ Fund (CCTF) in July 2008. The project was a 3-year educational charity program that plans to deliver at least 30,000 schoolbags full of stationeries to students in poverty areas within three years. With the objective of leveraging on the company’s strength in logistics through the involvement from all DHL employees in China, this campaign will help children and teenagers in poverty-stricken areas to complete their basic education and promote the sustainable development of the education on children and teenagers in China’s poverty areas.
