Employees to partner with local organizations with the goal of creating sustainable communities
SURABAYA, Indonesia – October 1, 2015 – For the third consecutive year, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) has committed to combining leadership and business development while simultaneously addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges. From September 26 – October 3, 2015, Dow has 42 employees from 24 global locations on the ground in Surabaya, Indonesia to work with nonprofit organizations and address long-standing challenges in a key growth market for the Company. The program, Leadership in Action (LIA), is being held for the first time in Asia and in one of Dow’s focused growth geographies. The company recently opened its first sales office in Surabaya, the capital of East Java province.
Pairing talent development with global citizenship, LIA offers Dow employees the opportunity to partner with on-the-ground, local organizations in emerging geographies to develop sustainable community-driven solutions. In Indonesia this year, employees will work with three universities and four non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to address challenges related to education, agriculture, water and community development. The Dow employees have been working virtually with their colleagues since April 2015 on various projects, and are currently in Surabaya to work side-by-side with their Indonesian counterparts to present their proposals. The Dow teams and their local partners will then work together to reach the most suitable solutions and by the end of October, Dow will present the final solutions.
“The Leadership in Action program provides valuable collaboration opportunities for both local communities in Indonesia and Dow. Together, we identify and implement projects that promote sustainable livelihoods,” said Eddy Setiawan, Dow’s South East Asia President. “We believe such mutual partnerships will create positive learning and a spillover effect in the South East Asia region in the long run, thus benefitting other countries.”
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Dow’s LIA is a collaboration between Dow Sustainability Corps (DSC), the Company’s skills-based employee engagement program, and the Company’s human resources function. LIA leverages the goals of DSC and human resources to generate solutions to global challenges and exceptional leadership development opportunities.
For additional information and to learn more about Dow’s commitment to sustainability and global citizenship, please visit www.dow.com. This year’s program can be followed online or via Twitter at #DowLeads.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company is driving innovations that extract value from the intersection of chemical, physical and biological sciences to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven, industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2014, Dow had annual sales of more than $58 billion and employed approximately 53,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 6,000 product families are manufactured at 201 sites in 35 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at www.dow.com.
Kow Sin Yee
Dow Chemical Pacific (Singapore) Pte Ltd
kow@dow.com
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