Corporate Volunteering

Helsana employees are committed to helping others and the environment.

Helsana employees have been volunteering their time and energy to support society, the environment and nature since 2016. Individually or as a group, they actively dedicate themselves to good causes, such as retirement homes, mountain farms or social organisations. Helsana supports up to eight hours of volunteer work per person per year.

Every time Helsana gets involved in corporate volunteering, it not only supports valuable projects but also receives true gifts itself. Employees come into contact with previously unfamiliar environments and get to see a different side to their colleagues. In short, corporate volunteering is a win-win situation for everyone involved.

Impressions from Helsana’s commitments

Narr Farm

Pigs, goats, chickens, horses and many other creatures find their second home on the Narr Farm in the village of Egg (Canton of Zurich). There is, however, always plenty of work to do on such a large farm, with over 170 animals, adjacent farmland and its own market garden.

Volunteering offers the opportunity to get to know colleagues from other departments.

Although the work is physically strenuous, it makes a nice change from sitting all day in the office.

The highlights of the voluntary work include the encounters with the animals, who lead a good, satisfying life on the farm.

2x Christmas

Thanks to our long-standing sponsorship partnership with the Swiss Red Cross, Helsana employees take part in the “2x Christmas” campaign every year, which supports people affected by poverty in Switzerland with food parcels.

As part of their voluntary work at the Swiss Red Cross logistics centre in Wabern bei Bern, participants carefully unpack the donations that have been received.

Long-lasting foodstuffs, such as tinned fruit and vegetables, soup and flour, are particularly in demand.

Once sorted, the parcels are distributed to the elderly or infirm, single parents and their children, and other people in need.

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