Chevron Corporate Responsibility Report 2009

South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand and the
Philippines to stem the spread of these
diseases. These are communities where
we have significant operations and a large
employee base, and where Global Fund
partnerships can help leverage or expand
our existing community engagement and
public health efforts. In 2009, the second
year of the program, all six of our incountry
partnerships were under way.
Stakeholder
Engagement
Partnership Through Community Consultation
We worked with a recipient of Global
Fund resources in Thailand — Program
for Appropriate Technology in Health
(PATH) — to increase HIV/AIDS awareness
and education among Chevron employees,
Thai youth and Caltex customers in
Bangkok. Together, we organized the first
AIDS Education Youth Camp, strengthening
leadership skills and HIV/AIDS awareness
of 25 youth leaders. We introduced PATH’s
Parents Network to Chevron employees to
help parents improve their understanding
of HIV/AIDS and enhance communication
about the disease with their children.
PATH partnered with Caltex retailers and
attendants to distribute approximately
40,000 brochures with HIV/AIDS information
at Caltex stations in Bangkok.
During a two-year Arctic exploration program,
our community engagement team, as part of
our Environmental, Social and Health Impact
Assessment process, held numerous meetings
with residents from Anaktuvuk Pass
and other villages on Alaska’s North Slope.
Anaktuvuk Pass is the last remaining settlement
of the Nunamiut (People of the Land)
Inupiat communities in Alaska (pictured).
The meetings enabled the residents to
learn about Chevron’s drilling plans and
express concerns about the possible effects
on village life and their relationship to the
land — including subsistence hunting activities.
The consultation process gave us an
opportunity to adjust project planning to
mitigate these issues, including taking special
care around the drill site to prevent disruption
to local culture.
Before exploration, we also conducted baseline
studies of the area’s environment and
wildlife, which resulted in modification to
the drilling plans in order to reduce potential
impacts.
In another environmental effort that the
company started in Alaska in 1991, Caring for
the Kenai, Chevron and partner Tesoro Corp.
sponsor an environmental awareness contest
in which students compete for cash awards
by developing practical, applicable solutions
to preserve and improve the local environment.
The students identify the issues they
wish to address. Several first-place winners
of this nationally recognized program received
President’s Environmental Youth Awards from
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for
their projects. To learn about Caring for the
Kenai, visit CaringForTheKenai.com.
Chevron Nigeria Ltd. and the National
Agency for the Control of AIDS launched
a Workplace Wellness program with
10 Lagos-based small and medium-sized
enterprises and nonprofits. The program
provides technical support, advocacy and
a system for monitoring wellness practices.
In the Philippines, we are partnering
with the Global Fund to fight tuberculosis,
the sixth-leading cause of mortality and
morbidity, according to the Philippine
Department of Health. Thus far, our
contributions have helped train more than
12,000 service providers to detect tuberculosis.
Through these efforts, more than
6,900 new cases were detected, of which
1,300 were drug-resistant. To complement
the Global Fund partnership, Chevron
employees, Caltex retailers and service
station employees participated in awareness
events; Caltex.com/ph provided
retailers with information and referrals.
Through its network of Caltex stations,
Chevron is planning an education and
awareness campaign aimed at publictransport
motorists. The campaign will
focus on prevention and early detection.
Training Teachers and Students
Chevron is partnering with several organizations, including The Jakarta Post and
the Newspaper in Education Institute, in a unique program to teach English. The
program is based on the idea that using the newspaper as a living textbook can
make teaching and learning English enjoyable, interactive and relevant. Chevron
supports the program by organizing training in communities near company
operations. More than 750 students and 300 teachers from junior and senior
high schools in Indonesia’s Riau and East Kalimantan provinces benefited from
this training since Chevron’s participation began in 2008.
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