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Giving Generously To The United Way
Talisman actively supports the annual United Way of Calgary fundraising campaign to build strong, healthy families and communities in Calgary and the surrounding area. Each year Talisman employees and executives volunteer significant amounts of time and energy throughout the campaign. In 2010, for the fourth consecutive year, Talisman and its employees raised more than $1 million for the United Way campaign. In an additional effort to raise awareness and create opportunities for employees to participate, we held our first A Day Makes A Difference campaign, which involved a week of volunteer activities for a range of charitable projects. Led by our executive team, more than 200 employees volunteered as part of the campaign.
Supporting Education
In Peru, we are committed to offering full education scholarships for indigenous students in the areas where we are working. In 2010, 20 students from the Loreto region and the communities of Fasam, Nuevo Osham and Sabaloyacu benefited from these scholarships, which included the cost of materials, lodging, food and transportation. In addition, we funded a training course in Lima for 30 community members on basic health-care techniques.
Helping To Rebuild Communities
We have carried out seismic exploration activities in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq and commenced drilling our first operated well earlier this year. As a condition of our investment, we provided capacity-building payments of US$220 million in 2008 to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to rehabilitate local communities damaged by past conflict. We have taken steps to ensure these dollars are managed transparently. The KRG has established a committee to oversee allocation of $200 million of the initial capacity-building payments, which are allocated specifically to the Garmian region, an area in great need of infrastructure support. Talisman has a seat on that committee. To date, about $75 million has been invested in projects to build roads, improve water sanitation, drill water wells, build schools and provide affordable housing developments.
