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Children attend the Dreams Come True event at the United Nations Pavilion |
The Vice President of a major Chinese Group of companies has highlighted stable community partnerships as the basis for corporate volunteer efforts.Speaking at the United Nations Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, Li Xiao, Vice President of the TICO Digital Group, said he hoped that the United Nations Corporate Responsibility Forum, dubbed “Dreams Come True”, would bring companies responsible for vulnerable individuals together to discuss how corporations could contribute to their well-being.
“The power of the individual is limited and the path of social welfare has a long way to go. We hope that the Corporate Social Responsibility Forum will drive enterprises with social responsibility to make greater contributions to society”, said Xiao.
The Forum was organized by TICO Digital Group and Fuping Development Institute. United Nations Commissioner General, Awni Behnam, TICO Digital Group Chairman and President, Zhou Zhou, and Fuping Development Institute Vice President, Xing Wenyi, attended the forum.
Special guests at the Forum were 18 children from Chinese migrant communities. Migrant children are an especially vulnerable group in Chinese society. People leaving the country-side in search of work in big cities encounter a number of social and economic difficulties.
The Forum brought well-known business people together with representatives of the voluntary sector in an attempt to share relevant business experience of volunteer services and corporate responsibility in society, to encourage enterprises to use industry expertise to give back to communities and to promote the involvement and continued investment to voluntary services. |
