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Asia Pacific
Maintaining its place at the top of the
annual volunteer leaderboard, Asia
Pacific will again have the largest turn-
out of volunteers across Citi’s regions.
In Hong Kong, 4,000 volunteers will
partner with 13 NGOs to host a wide
range of community service and fun-
draising activities for the elderly, un-
derprivileged children and families,
and other underserved groups. Ap-
proximately 2,000 volunteers in China
will participate in a walkathon to raise
funds to improve the nutrition of more
than 3,400 children from some of Chi-
na’s most impoverished communities.
Under the theme of ‘Green Citi, Clean
City,’ South Korea’s 50 activities will
involve 4,000 volunteers in environ-
mental protection efforts in botanical
gardens and eco parks. In Thailand,
2,000 volunteers will support those
affected by the floods in 2011 by fun-
draising to help five damaged schools
and 200 underprivileged students.
Europe, Middle East and Africa
In Spain, close to 100 people ranging
from 4 to 99 years old are taking part
in a fundraising event called the Citi
Mini Olympics. More than 1,000 vol-
unteers in Pakistan will take part in the
Citi 200 Community Carnival benefit-
ting patients of a local cancer hospital.
In Kenya, volunteers in Nairobi will
partner with Habitat for Humanity’s
Maai Mahiu Internally Displaced Per-
sons project at Naivasha, which seeks
to provide decent, durable and perma-
nent houses. Citi Nigeria volunteers in
Lagos will be working at the National
Museum to restore storage rooms for
Nigeria’s historical artifacts.
Latin America and Mexico
In Guatemala, more than 2,000 volun-
teers will be working on various neigh-
borhood revitalization projects includ-
ing repairing playgrounds, schools and
sidewalks, painting murals, planting
trees and installing streetlamps built
with recycled materials. In Argentina,
1,600 volunteers will work with lo-
cal schools, hospices, and homes in 18
cities across the country and hold a
Sustainability Fair to benefit local non-
profit partners. 1,300 Citi volunteers in
Panama will remodel classrooms in the
capital and clean up beaches to cel-
ebrate World Oceans Day. In Mexico,
more than 5,000 volunteers across 62
cities, including Mexico City, will come
together to plant nearly 25,000 trees
and improve green areas in the local
communities.
North America
Across the New York tri state area
more than 4,500 employees will
be engaged in various commu-
nity projects, including teach-
ing financial skills with Junior
Achievement, revitalizing Hud-
son River Park, cleaning city beaches,
preparing disaster cleanup kits with
the American Red Cross, preparing
summer camps for underprivileged
children, building bicycles for chil-
dren of military families, and restoring
historic landmarks. Citi volunteers
in Los Angeles and Fresno will utilize
their skills to provide financial literacy
classes at Financial Family Days. In
Tucson, employees are involved in
various community development proj-
ects and will assemble care packages
for families of military service mem-
bers. In St. Louis, under the banner of
“200 Acts of Kindness”, more than 600
volunteers will reach out into the local
community and volunteer their servic-
es to various causes including literacy,
food distribution and revitalizing com-
munity spaces. Across Canada more
than 500 Citi volunteers will work to
provide food to the hungry, shelter to
the homeless and green public parks.
About Citi
Citi, the leading global bank, has ap-
proximately 200 million customer ac-
counts and does business in more than
160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi
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