Corporate Social Responsibility CSR and Citizenship Engagement

Abstract

The main objective of the paper is to outline a well-established CSR program and covers a number of special social engagement events throughout the years covering diverse demographics in collaboration with multiple organizations and corporate entities of technical/professional societies and academia to effectively collaborate and conduct major activities such as: Community awareness aiming to engage the local communities and promote the awareness of environmental conservation. Safety and environmental awareness for school students to learn tips about protecting the environment and home fire safety. Blood donation campaigns. This paper associates the development and delivery of various programs toward serving the local content and emphasis upon the science, technology and engineering. The program is a series of hands-on workshops, 2 days per week in three tracks: science, electronics and robotics. It aims to attract more females participating in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) by training teachers, engaging the students, and connecting them with female role models working in STEM fields. The successful implementation of the subject programs has granted a top corporate performance of corporate social responsibilities. The program firmly believes in educating the local communities through workshops, campaigns, trips and awareness sessions. A number of sessions have been arranged with great participation and enthusiasm. Furthermore, professionals facilitated the delivery of petroleum engineering modules in participation of the government's gifted students’ program in collaboration with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Section. This participation serves the role of attracting high achieving students to join the energy industry by showing them the exciting career opportunities the industry has to offer. Finally, blood donations have contributed to the health of the community as part of HSSE and CSR program. The paper will also touch upon the initiation of the internal guidelines for handling the social program including the required themes, health, safety and environment (HSE) and related topics, as well as the process of coordinating such endeavors.