Hays Treks for Marie Curie
Twenty Hays employees travelled to Kenya to spend 12 days in the Rift Valley, trekking across dormant volcanoes and stopping only to take part in gruelling community projects with the local Maasai people. For work? For fun? For Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Included in the group were Neil Dunnigan and Scott Robinson, senior consultants from Hays City, and Kirsty How, who works for Hays Resource Management and is on-site at Merrill Lynch.
Each Hays employee had to raise a minimum of £3,250 in sponsorship to cover their costs and still have enough left over to support additional funding. An impressive £80,000 has already been raised by the trip in total.
In the UK Marie Curie raise money for terminally ill cancer patients. The money raised by Project Kenya has paid for four nurses in the local area for a year. Marie Curie operators in Kenya work with Western organisations like Hays in order to support the local people surrounding Mount Suswa where resources are sparse.
Hays supported the team by matching the funds raised, and paid the employees as normal over the twelve days.
Hays Senior Finance Director Paul Thomas encourages his team to get behind initiatives like Project Kenya. "It's important that we continue to recognise the value of projects like this. We want to do more than just give money to charity - we want our employees to get stuck in, really appreciate what we are doing and play an active role in supporting our charity of choice. Project Kenya did exactly this."
Each Hays employee had to raise a minimum of £3,250 in sponsorship to cover their costs and still have enough left over to support additional funding. An impressive £80,000 has already been raised by the trip in total.
In the UK Marie Curie raise money for terminally ill cancer patients. The money raised by Project Kenya has paid for four nurses in the local area for a year. Marie Curie operators in Kenya work with Western organisations like Hays in order to support the local people surrounding Mount Suswa where resources are sparse.
Hays supported the team by matching the funds raised, and paid the employees as normal over the twelve days.
Hays Senior Finance Director Paul Thomas encourages his team to get behind initiatives like Project Kenya. "It's important that we continue to recognise the value of projects like this. We want to do more than just give money to charity - we want our employees to get stuck in, really appreciate what we are doing and play an active role in supporting our charity of choice. Project Kenya did exactly this."
