At Unilever, we believe that a diversified workforce can do the unimaginable, the unthinkable, and the impossible. We believe in driving diversity of thought, backgrounds, gender, abilities, age, ethnicity and socio-cultural background. Unilever Bangladesh has always been thriving towards creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. This year on International Women’s Day (IWD), we decided to leverage the power of diversity with a view to improving the health of the planet as per our sustainability commitment.
On 2nd March 2022, we combined two of our most important agendas togetherempowering women and strengthening our plastic commitments and joined hands with Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) and UNDP Bangladesh to improve the health of the planet. The programme was also graced by Dr Selina Hayat Ivy, Mayor of NCC as the chief guest along with Yugesh Pradhanang, Project Manager, Livelihoods Improvement of Urban Poor Communities Project (LIUPCP) of UNDP Bangladesh.
We started our clean-up drive with our Unilever female managers, our partner UNDP male and female staff, community leaders and female waste workers of NCC and our friends from media. Together this diverse group of people joined hands to create awareness on plastic cleanup in Narayanganj as part of the IWD 2022 campaign that is ‘Diversity for Sustainability’
Through this one-day campaign, we spread throughout the city and collected plastic wastes from the streets. After an hour of cleanup drive, we headed back to Ali Ahmed Chunka Auditorium where the Mayor appreciated that hundred powerful women come forward with such an encouraging initiative of plastic cleanup at NCC and personally thanked the community leaders and waste workers for their contribution to the environment. To make this campaign more impactful, we went to visit consumer households to raise community level awareness on managing plastic waste and also visited plastic collection site and interacted with the women waste workers to appreciate their contribution to our environment and to the community.
With the power of 100 women, we were able to clean the city and raise awareness on plastic waste management and showed our commitment for a greener Narayanganj. We believe this campaign will set a trend and help raise awareness of the people here and across the country towards a more sustainable and clean environment.
