![]() Without access to education, these children will not be able to engage in the workforce when they are eventually repatriated and transitioned back into society. In addition, the company's partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its campaign is focused on providing education to the world's nine million refugee children, who are exiled in refugee camps from Thailand to Central America. The company's vocational training centers in Tamil Nadu, India, enabled more than 1,000 people to become trained in new careers in 2006. The report highlights Manpower's ongoing assistance to victims of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, who continue to require extensive support in their struggle to recover and gain sustainable employment since the disasters. The company's disaster recovery efforts were a natural extension of the workforce development initiatives that Manpower has championed for decades. The four pillars of the company’s expanded social responsibility platform are: workforce development, disaster recovery, reaching out to refugees and combating human trafficking. ![]() The Manpower Social Responsibility Report released today is significant because this was the year in which the company expanded its social responsibility program to make a greater impact on some of the world’s most pressing challenges. 30,000 hours of volunteer time donated to community service projects.$2.6 million contributed in funding and services to charitable causes.35,000 people with disabilities, inadequate skills and education gaps provided with significant training and assistance to find sustainable jobs.social responsibility programs resulted in: Helping these individuals to get the training and other services that they need to gain sustainable employment is the part of our role in the world of work that makes me the most proud to be a part of this company," said Joerres. "Beyond this, we make a special effort in the 4,000+ communities and neighborhoods where we have offices to identify the groups of individuals who are unable to make a connection to work due to inadequate skills, poor education, disabilities or other challenges which create barriers to employment. "In 2006 alone, we found permanent or temporary jobs for 4.4 million people through our offices all over the world - that's just what we do every day. "At any given moment, if you take a look around you in a crowd, there will be at least one person who has been helped by Manpower to find employment at some point in his or her life," said Jeffrey A. The report's theme, "Take a Look Around" highlights stories about the individuals who have been touched by the company's role as an agent of positive social change, particularly in the area of workforce development, which forms the cornerstone of Manpower's social responsibility agenda. (NYSE: MAN) announced today the publication of its first ever stand-alone Social Responsibility Report.
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