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VOLUNTEER FORDEVELOPMENT
Volunteering programmes inwhich employee volunteers
transmit their knowledge to disadvantaged communities
to promote economic and social development through
job creation, the development of sustainable economic
activities and contributing to the eradication of poverty
in developing countries.
Agoro Lodge Hotel-School. Ethiopia (Corporate)
NHHotel Group,ManosUnidas and the SpanishAgency
for International Development Cooperation (AECID)
have been developing this project since 2010 to promote
the socio-economic development of the Tigray region.
Apart from prior assessment and the collaboration of
two employee volunteerswho travelled toEthiopia, other
volunteers fromdifferent departments also collaborated
remotely. At the beginning of 2013, the Agoro Lodge was
officially inaugurated, positioning itself as a Sustainable
and Responsible Tourism option.
In addition, the project is included in the casemanual and
book about Corporate Volunteering for Development,
published in 2013 by the Fundación Codespa as an
example of an initiative that has successfully faced the
challenges of its design, implementation and evolution.
VOLUNTEER COACHING
Includes initiatives in which employees, during their working hours,
inside or outside of their workplace, put their skills and knowledge at
the service of training and apprenticeship programmes for vulnerable
groups in which NHHotel Group participates.
Track The Talent (BU Benelux - Amsterdam)
This foundation focuses on improving the employability of young
people with low levels of education through effective training and
employment orientation programmes. Employee volunteers from
NHHotel Group in Amsterdam have participated twice a year since
2009
in kitchen and restaurant workshops organised in the hotels,
sharing their knowledge with groups of young people from 12-15
years old in order to help them plan their futures.
Give and Gain (BU Spain –Madrid and Valencia and
BU Benelux- London)
For the third consecutive year, NH Hotel Group participated in the
III Give and Gain International Week for Employee Volunteering,
a reference initiative in Europe that currently develops projects in
16
countries. NH Hotel Group employee volunteers participated as
coaches, sharing their experience and knowledge in order to awaken
the professional interest of people at risk of exclusion.
Coach Project. EXIT Foundation (BU Spain)
NH Hotel Group participated for the second consecutive year in the
EXIT Foundation Coach Project in Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza
and Palma de Mallorca. The initiative focuses on improving the
employability of young people at risk of social and employment
exclusion through coaching and mentoring. Both the employee
volunteers and their assigned youths greatly benefited from the
experience. The youths highly valued the good relationship between
hotel co-workers and discovering the different employment options in
the hotel sector. Similarly, the employee volunteers became familiar
with the reality of these young people, learning fromand participating
with them in their enthusiasm and excitement.
Track The Talent
(
BU Benelux - Amsterdam)
NH Palazzo Barocci
Venice, Italy
