Tokio Millennium Re Hold “‘Day Of Giving”
Staff from Tokio Millennium Re displayed their community spirit by spreading out across Bermuda to help three of the island’s charities on Thursday. The Tokio Day of Giving saw employees volunteer at The Reading Clinic, Casemates and WindReach.
The Reading Clinic received a new coat of paint for its resource library while at Casemates Tokio employees did pre-restoration demolition work. They also gave a huge boost to WindReach by taking care of some urgently-needed gardening and conservation work.
Tats Hoshina, CEO of Tokio Millennium Re states: “This was Tokio’s first global ‘Day of Giving’ and it was wonderful to be able to work with three such deserving charities on the island — The Reading Clinic, WindReach and The National Museum of Bermuda. Our offices in Zurich, Australia and London were also taking part in charitable activities so it was incredibly rewarding to simultaneously be able to give back to the communities we live in around the world.”
Zoë Kempe, lead organiser of the Tokio Day of Giving, said: “We really enjoyed being able to involve the whole company in this ‘give-back’ event. It also provided us with the perfect opportunity for some company team building! We plan to make our Day of Giving an annual event and have enjoyed collaborating with these three worthy charities. We already had a solid relationship with them so it was nice to be able to get out and get our hands dirty, literally!”
Dr. Edward Harris, executive director of the Bermuda National Museum, said: “We were delighted to have Tokio Millennium Re using their volunteer day to assist the National Museum with the restoration work at wonderful Casemates Barracks. It is expected that volunteer days such as Tokio Millennium Re’s will be of tremendous importance in preparing the site for its ultimate restoration.”
Erica Fulton, WindReach Bermuda executive director, said: “WindReach Bermuda is on a four-acre piece of property which requires a huge amount of maintenance. As long-time supporters of our work, we much appreciate Tokio choosing us as one of their projects.
“They worked to clear areas of our sensory trail and pond as well as parts of our boundaries that have become overgrown with invasives. A large group like this can accomplish a lot in a few hours, and it also gives us an opportunity to show Tokio staff what they have been helping to support over the years. We were thrilled to have them here!”
Julie Dunstan, executive director for The Reading Clinic, added: “The Reading Clinic would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to the volunteers from Tokio Millennium Re for helping us to refresh our resource library. These improvements to our environment are important in communicating to our students, tutors, parents and volunteers that they have the support of the community behind them.
“The Tokio team members have demonstrated that they are corporate citizens who are committed to engaging fully with their charitable partners. As lead sponsor of our Core Reading Programme, Tokio has generously given us the gifts of funding, volunteer time and even a victory at the Give Back Games competition in September, 2012! We cannot thank the leadership and volunteers at Tokio enough for their enthusiasm, commitment and philanthropic spirit in helping children with learning differences to learn, grow and soar.”
Tokio plans on making this an annual event and looks forward to helping worthy charities again next year.
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