MAPFRE celebrates fifth edition of Global Volunteering Day

MAPFRE, both in Malta and at Group level, is today celebrating a new edition of Global Volunteering Day. This day is aimed at enabling all employees to come together as one global team and help others in need.

MAPFRE Group is this year once again be dedicating the event towards nutrition, having set an overall challenge of reaching 10,000 kilograms worth of food donations among all MAPFRE employees globally. This global challenge is being treated with the utmost importance, especially since nearly nine per cent of the world’s population – more than 690 million people – suffer from the daily struggle of hunger.

With this global initiative, MAPFRE hopes to contribute towards two preliminary objectives outlined by the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs), namely SDG 1 ‘Ending Poverty’ and SDG 2 ‘Zero Hunger’.

In the case of MAPFRE Malta, the company will be teaming up with Caritas’ Dar Papa Franġisku, which was the first emergency shelter for homeless individuals in Malta, established in 2016.

Dar Papa Franġisku is one of the largest houses in Fleur-de-Lys Road and is run by Caritas in partnership with the government and the Alfred Mizzi Foundation. Those persons...