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To help those in need during the pandemic, Luxoft supported several local organizations and hospitals by providing donations and purchasing equipment. With the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Luxoft and its employees have provided continuous support to the Ukrainian team and local humanitarian aid relief organizations.

Our teams participate in major charity activities, including the Poland Business Run - the biggest charity relay that supports those living with mobility disabilities. In 2021, the Luxoft Romania team joined the Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest and Save the Children Marathon. Luxoft Germany was part of B2Run Munchen, and the UK team participated in the Dragon Race.

Luxoft teams across the globe join efforts to provide support to our NGO partners, including equipment donation and purchasing basic items and gifts for kids. We organize holiday season markets at this special time for all charity organizations; during this period, they raise the majority of the funds that allow them to run their operations.

    We appreciate the healthy lifestyles of Luxoft employees and want to motivate community members and others to join up to keep a sense of vital energy alive. One of the ways to encourage health is to add a ESG component to exercise. The warmer half of the year is the time for marathons, bike rides, triathlons, and other invigorating activities. Each year, Luxoft employees participate in various sport fundraising activities as well as our global initiative, #RunForIT.

    In 2019, Luxoft launched #RunForIT, a project that unites Luxofters around the world to show how far Luxoft can run collectively, and then, using this data, contributes to charity – for each 5 km run, one dollar is donated. In 2020-2021, we had more than 300 runners and 100 cyclists among participants in more than 30 locations. In 2020, we helped out Teach For All, an organization that ensures that children have access to the learning opportunities and support they need to thrive and become the leaders of tomorrow’s change. In 2021, the funds generated went to the Walk About Foundation.

    In the consumer world, we often face situations in which the stuff we keep at home piles up and takes up too much room. Electronics get outdated every couple of years, and clothing and shoe trends change with every season. At Luxoft, we have arranged a service by which we can collect goods and pass them to people in need through our NGO partners. Luxoft also contributed by giving equipment that was outdated for our cutting-edge operations but still in good shape to our partners, and this is an ongoing process.

    All of the largest Luxoft locations arrange blood-donation stations in cooperation with local NGOs twice a year. There were donation drives in Poland, Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria. More than 250 people participated, and the donated blood has helped people who need transfusions, meaning it has saved lives.

    We continuously look for new socially responsible practices and foster ideas and initiatives that support diversity and inclusion. The Luxoft CSR Incubator is an annual global volunteer grant program that offers financial support to our employees who want to contribute to social development at Luxoft and in local communities.

    After all the submissions are collected, the judging process to choose the best projects addressing the goals of Luxoft’s ESG strategy begins. Initiatives focusing on promoting gender equality at Luxoft and in local communities, opening the world of IT for students after university, and supporting the education of disadvantaged children are always among employee proposals that we support.

    The initiators of the winning ideas become project leaders and are awarded with financial grants to help them implement their ideas during the financial year with teams of colleagues. Since 2017, we have received more than 250 project plans from all over the world, giving us a great cross-section of what employees in different locations are interested in and what community changes are most relevant. In 2020-2022, we received more than 100 new bright ideas from the UK, Poland, India, Australia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, and the USA.

    One of the CSR Incubator winners of 2021 is the JustImproveIT committee in Guadalajara, Mexico, which addresses the community’s social problems and cooperates with employees to provide support to people in need. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the team produced face shields for doctors using a 3D-printer constructed in-house.

    In Poland, a team of volunteers started the Mind Matters group on Workplace and conducted Mental Health Week, as well as organizing a special online event - an online webinar with Wojciech Eichelberger, a renowned Polish psychologist, psychotherapist, coach, and trainer. A career guidance course for schoolchildren in Ukraine was launched in March 2021 to help teenagers make a conscious choice about their professional aspirations.

    Moreover, another project successfully implemented in 2020-2021 is the She Codes @ Luxoft program, an intensive three-month educational Java course for women conducted by Luxoft trainers that also included interactive workshops with Luxoft experts. Our LuxCode Girls community in Mexico kept on developing with the help of our enthusiastic team.

    In addition, we fostered the InspireIT Mentoring program, aimed at sharing successful stories and opening opportunities for women in the IT industry. Luxoft Ukraine continued a successful cooperation with the Women Who Code Kyiv network and organized a series of online meetups with Luxoft and network experts. From 2020-2022, over 200 participants joined the events, gained valuable knowledge, and had the opportunity to network.

 

 

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