Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) was adjudged as the biggest corporate donor of 2011 at the Corporate Philanthropy Awards hosted by Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy in Karachi.
The company bagged the award for the eighth consecutive year in the same category., Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro presented the award to PPL’s Deputy Managing Director Moin Raza Khan. The event was attended by leading businessmen, representatives of multinational companies, government officials, civil society representatives, donor bodies and media entities. Khuhro highlighted the government’s inability and failures in reaching out to disadvantaged segments of the society and commended the corporate sector for bridging the gap.
PPL’s CSR programme is focused on ensuring sustainable social asset creation and maximizing long-term impact of development initiatives through a participatory process of needs identification, consultation involving all stakeholders, including communities, followed by close monitoring and inspection to extract lessons learned to further improve implementation and delivery.
