Community Investments

The Agility Kuwait warehousing and operations team has run a recycling program for the past four years. In 2017, 15,296 kg of plastic, 106,297 kg of cardboard, 1,900 kg of metal and 3,475 wooden pallets were recycled from the Sulaibiya and Mina Abdullah warehouse operations locations. Funds raised from the program are directed to employee welfare programs.

Agility Turkey employees initiated a campaign to help raise awareness on environmental preservation amongst local primary school students. In addition, new water taps were installed to upgrade school facilities in order to improve resource consumption. The Agility volunteers also delivered lectures to students to highlight different ways to improve resource consumption and save water.

As part of the Logistics Emergency Teams (LET), Agility donated 2,000 sqm of warehouse for two months to store emergency food assistance for 750,000 people displaced by Hurricane Mathew in Haiti. In addition, a team of 11 experienced Agility logisticians flew into Haiti to support the relief efforts on the ground.

Agility supported the Environmental Protection Agency with several events throughout 2016, which included beach clean-ups, plastics recycling, and awareness raising workshops about water conservation, waste and general environmental preservation.

Agility Kuwait and Kuwait Healthy Living, a non-profit, conducted a two-month campaign that promoted sustainable community gardening and healthy eating among primary school students.

Agility chemicals safety experts introduced and identified the different classes of chemicals to the students and educated them on the various safety measures that should be taken to avoid any hazardous effects.

Agility, along with its subsidiary UPAC, collected funds and school supplies. Each student received a backpack, school notebooks, and stationary, and raised funds to support the tuition fees for Syrian refugee students.