Not Just a Drop in the Ocean
2018 – current
In 2018, for IAPCO’s 50th Anniversary, the ‘Not Just a Drop in the Ocean Campaign’ was launched with the mascot ‘Ticky the Turtle’ whose purpose was to promote the adverse effects that single-use plastics were having on the oceans and seas around the world. Click here to find out more.
Everyone’s Library in Sendai
2018
IAPCO members, from all over the world, kindly donated over 90 children’s picture books during the Tokyo Annual Meeting & General Assembly.
The books were sent to Sendai in the Miyagi prefecture where they were divided, with the majority going to ‘Everyone’s Library’ a prefabricated structure and the rest were donated to the nearby JR Station. Reports have been received that the children very much appreciate and enjoy reading the books, as pictured.
Burundi
2012 – 2017
The Bubanza Hospital, supported by FIMAC, International Foundation of Doctors for Central Africa, is a major institution dedicated to the health of the local community. IAPCO is endorsing and supporting FIMAC’s work at this hospital contributing to the management and care cost of hospital beds. In addition, as part of the strategy to improve healthcare and wellbeing, a basketball court was built, funded by IAPCO members, and completed in 2017.
IAPCO members dig deep for Samora Machel
2016
IAPCO member took part in a CSR activity in Cape Town’s Samora Machel Township, during the Annual Meeting in 2016. The group created 6 wicking garden beds, which would be water-efficient and create a self-sustaining garden for the community. In 2017 IAPCO members donated further funds to the Samora Machel township supporting the Happy Cousins project whereby students were assigned to a garden bed to oversee propagation, harvest and replant.
40 Trees for 40 Years
2008
Following on from an intense session on the Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility, at the Auckland Annual Meeting in 2008, the occasion of IAPCO’s 40th Annivsersary, 40 IAPCO members, as part of a scrubland rejuvenation programme, created their own ‘IAPCO Copse’ and planted 40 trees. “The scrubland was ready for replanting and this was an excellent opportunity for IAPCO to do something positive as well as fun” said host Jan Tonkin of The Conference Company.