Our Approach to CSR
Our commitment to CSR underlies our business strategy and we continually strive to operate to the highest international social, environmental and safety standards. It is of paramount importance to Heritage that we maintain a positive influence in the areas in which we operate and that our employees and contractors feel able to achieve their full potential in a safe environment.
We have continued with a variety of longer-term sustainable initiatives across our operations in 2010 which included:
- in Kurdistan we focused on community initiatives supporting the local education system, assisting development of local infrastructure and funded much needed healthcare for a pupil within our licence area;
- in Tanzania our activities focused on supporting local health services with a donation of $7,500 to the Baobab Maternity Hospital in Dar es Salaam to contribute to the construction, management and service delivery of the hospital;
- in Pakistan, which experienced unprecedented floods, Heritage immediately committed $72,000 to a disaster relief fund and immediate relief to those most affected in our Zamzama North licence area; and
- in Russia we have continued to invest in annual health and social programmes in the vicinity of our licence area.
PAUL ATHERTON
CHAIRMAN, CSR COMMITTEE