Employee Volunteering constitutes an important element of PKN ORLEN corporate culture. The programme is addressed to all employees who want to help others with the support of the Company. The programme integrates employees around positive and valuable undertakings, and encourages to initiate and perform joint charity activities. The programme coordinators have managed to gather a large group of people who get involved in projects initiated by PKN ORLEN or by themselves.

In 2008, we implemented the “Make dreams come true” project for the second time. Several dozen of the works submitted to the competition were exhibited at an unusual auction participated by all the Company’s employees. An employee, to become the owner of a card of his or her choice, had to make the dream of its author come true. Children from family children’s homes had very different dreams – some of them wanted only dolls or teddy bears, others asked for jewellery, computers, DVD players or school accessories. Employees could make those dreams come true individually or in groups. Each employee who decided to be Santa Claus for a moment and fulfilled the dreams of

The “Make dreams come true” project attracts an increasingly large number of participants – in 2008 the number of employees who fulfilled children’s dreams nearly doubled compared to 2007.

Wioletta Gorczyca Specialist at PKN ORLEN Corporate Communication Office*

You coordinate the Employee Volunteering programme at PKN ORLEN. Why do you think the number of employees involved in the programme grows by the year?

The most important things about the Employee Volunteering programme at PKN ORLEN are effective communication and open relations with employees – both with new volunteers and the ones who have been in the project since the beginning. Years of experience and constant development of the volunteering programme show that our employees have a great potential which they use in social activities. The idea of our volunteering programme is to have employees involved out of their willingness to help and their internal motivation to participate in charity. Each employee makes their personal choice to join the volunteer group. The most important thing about the process are individual meetings with employees – to talk about their initiatives and expectations. Our employees inspire us to search for and implement new charity projects. The Company’s volunteers, encouraged by the joy of and satisfaction with helping, and the success of the initiatives in which they participated look forward to new projects. For our volunteers, the greatest value and motivation to continue is first of all the disinterested joy they feel when they see the results of their help. Our involvement in charity work is undeniably due first of all to our individual consciousness, but also to the fact that employees identify with the values and culture of the Company where we work.

*quote form Corporate Responsibiliti Report 2008