International Volunteer Day: Arval Belgium launches #1MillionHours2Help

Arval Belgium wants to increase its social commitment and launches ‘1 Million Hours 2 Help’, the BNP Paribas Group's volunteer programme, where all employees can do half a day of volunteer work each year during working hours.

The BNP Paribas Group has committed to give all employees 1 million hours of paid voluntary work. Within this framework and in line with its CSR strategy, Arval wants all its employees to carry out 30,000 hours of volunteer work by 2025.

And of course Arval Belgium participates in this initiative, together with 17 other Arval countries. This way, all employees can use their knowledge and skills to make a real contribution to society. It also responds to the employees' need to give something back.

With #1MillionHours2Help, all employees of Arval Belgium do half a day of volunteer work during their working hours. In this way, Arval Belgium wants to support projects that contribute to a more solidary and environmentally-aware society.

‘With 1 Million Hours 2 Help, all employees of Arval Belgium can dedicate their working hours to associations that contribute to a better world. We value not only the company's social commitment, but that of all our employees.’

- Natacha Delcourt, HR Director, Arval Belgium

Employees can volunteer collectively or individually to an association active in one of the following areas:

• Promoting the social inclusion of young people,
• Accelerating energy transition,
• Supporting the work of entrepreneurs with a 'positive impact',
• Improving local communities.

A first team within Arval Belgium joined forces with the organisation River Clean Up. They helped clean up the rivers and their surroundings in Wallonia after the floods earlier this year.

‘It was an impressive and exhausting activity that confronted us with a reality we had never seen on television.’

- Filip Willaert, Commercial Performance & Pricing Manager, Arval Belgium