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Connecting Community

Help to keep our communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe

Now more than ever, it is essential to lead with enduring purpose and help protect our communities. We continue to work on the safe delivery of the chemicals and ingredients needed to produce clean water, reduce food waste, make travel possible and keep the lights on – but our work does not end there. We also continue to support local charities, non-profit organizations and community groups.

Learn more about how Univar Solutions acts on its commitments to help keep society healthy, fed, clean and safe through robust community engagement.

Where we take action

Delivering kindness runs deep in our DNA, and the many charitable partnerships we engage in around the world only strengthen the good we do. We deliver some of the best chemistries and ingredients in the world, but we’re most in our element when we are delivering on our purpose to keep our local communities healthy, fed, clean and safe.

Performance Highlights

Demonstrate our commitment to help keep society healthy, fed, clean, and safe through financial investment and employee involvement in the communities in which we live and work.

Charitable contributions through the Univar Solutions COMMUNITY BONDS program or other similar means.
Support employee volunteer hour contributions.
Promoting and elevating kindness in our communities one opportunity at a time.

In 2022, Univar Solutions was effecitve at demonstrating our commitment to help keep society healthy, fed, clean, and safe through financial investment and employee involvement in the communities in which we live and work.

Launched COMMUNITY BONDS Volunteering Paid Time Off for the USA, Canada, and Brazil to over 6,500 employees.
Recognized by the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society with “The Complete Package” Award for the resources and engagement created to see a world without MS.
Donated over $300,000 to causes across the globe that improve the health and lives of those in need.

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Championing kindness in the communities we serve

Our community engagement approach, called COMMUNITY BONDS is our holistic approach to inspire volunteering, maintain financial contributions to charitable organizations and raise our voice for important causes.

COMMUNITY BONDS is how we inspire our people to join together to “give great” to the communities where we live and work – going beyond our walls to make a lasting, positive impact for the world. The approach is designed to inspire and empower employees to strengthen our communities by: supporting health and wellness, promoting safety and belonging, advancing STEM education, protecting the environment, and advocating for others.

Working together to improve our shared communities

We continue to help keep our communities healthy, fed, clean and safe and know the role our company plays in the production of clean water, reduction of food waste, promotion of efficient travel and empowerment of society through responsible resource use.

Across North America

We support the National MS Society and participate, where possible, in Bike MS events around the US.
We are pleased to continue our support for organizations like The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Chicago, which funds research into the causes, detection and cure of prostate cancer.
Additionally, we support the American Red Cross for disaster relief efforts that impact our employees and communities.

Across the world

In EMEA, our work with the Brilliant Junior Academy in Watamu, Kenya sponsors children for their school fees, books and uniforms, and supports a school garden kitchen with chickens and food. Our employees also engage in a pen pal program where children of employees and the children in the school swap monthly letters and drawings around a theme. Other teams across EMEA have taken part in various volunteering activities to support the program.
And our employees volunteer on a regular basis for local charities and programs that align with our Community Bonds program and offer a direct connection to the communities where we live and work.

For more information on our Community Engagement progress, read our latest sustainability report here.

Case Study: Creating a healthier world for underserved pregnant women and children

As a global distributor of nutraceutical ingredients for more than 50 years, Univar Solutions is no stranger to improving lives and strengthening communities through nutrition. We have partnered with Vitamin Angels, a non-profit organization working to improve nutrition and health in low-resource locations in the world. The non-governmental organization reaches 60 million pregnant women and children in every state in the US and across 65 countries worldwide.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that at least half of the world's population lacks access to essential health services. Together with Vitamin Angels, Univar Solutions' nutraceutical ingredients team is helping reduce malnutrition across the crucial span of a child's development, from conception to 5 years of age. Along with an immediate impact on health and nutrition, our support helps to create a foundation for a more nutritionally sound future for women and children in many underserved communities.

To learn more about how you can support Vitamin Angels through Univar Solutions, visit univarsolutions.com/vitaminangels.