About 200 employees of the bank were cleaning, painting benches and pergolas, while the children were building bird houses

About 200 employees of UniCredit Bulbank collected nearly 500 kg of waste in Vitosha Mountain. The areas around Momina Skala Chalet and Planinets Chalet were cleaned and benches and pergolas around the two chalets were painted. The children of the employees were active participants, building bird houses which were then fixed on the trees around Momina Skala Chalet. The third Green Day of the bank took place on Saturday, 13th April 2013.

“Green Day is a voluntary initiative of the employees of the bank, whose aim is to contribute to improvement of the environment in which we live and spend our free time”, Levon Hamparzoumian, CEO of UniCredit Bulbank, commented.

Last year the employees of UniCredit Bulbank cleaned the area around the Monastery of Dragalevtsi in Vitosha Mountain, supporting the national campaign “Let’s Clean Buglaria in One Day”.

For its first Green Day in October 2011, UniCredit Bulbank was awarded for a Voluntary Initiative of the Year. Then 300 employees of the bank and their families planted 1,300 willows and some 1,800 healing buckthorn plants in Vitosha Park.

The Green Day Initiative is part of the National Green Program of UniCredit Bulbank during which every year the Bank implements environmental projects. Upon the start of the program in 2008, nearly 400 decares of forests were planted near Stara Zagora and over 30 km of main tourist alleys in Vitosha were recovered – from Aleko Chalet to the village of Bistritsa along the rivers Yanchovska and Bistrishka.

In 2009, the bank financed the restoring of an eco-path near the village of Borino, close to the rock phenomenon called Devil’s Bridge.

In 2010, the bank together with Bulgarian Charities Aid Foundation, organized a competition for environmental project, which was won by the National Parks’ Association – thus the bank financed with BGN 5 thousand the purchase of photo-traps for watching animal species and marking their habitats in six parks.

Simultaneously in 2011, the bank started a large-scale campaign for giving up paper statements and their replacement with electronic ones. For its advertising materials the bank already uses only recycled paper.

UniCredit Bulbank has started gradually installing bicycle stands in front of its branches to encourage employees to use this kind of transport to go to work.

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