OREANDA-NEWS. April 20, 2012. On March 31st, a nationwide community work day took place in Ukraine. According to the organizers of the "green" work day, traditionally initiated by PrivatBank, nearly 100’000 of people from 1’360 cities and towns of Ukraine participated in community work day this year. As a result of the bank’s "green" initiative 500’000 hectares of parks and recreation areas have been cleaned, 1’500 tons of garbage removed, 20’000 seedlings (almost 20 hectares) planted and even an old war grenade found near the Cherkassy Regional Hospital has been defused.
 
"If every true man has to build a house, raise a child and plant a tree, then PrivatBank has completed the basic" commandments of a man" to its 20th anniversary - we have almost 4’000 branches, 3 subsidiaries of the bank and now only in Ukraine, we have planted more than 20 thousands of trees, - says the Chairman of the Board of PrivatBank Alexander Dubilet. - I enjoyed planting some trees in Dnipropetrovsk together with my younger son. Community work day is a wonderful tradition and every year it obtains even more support from all other citizens as well as from the bank's employees– no wonder that March 31st in many parts of Ukraine, our community work day was declared a city-wide".
 
Young green alleys appeared alongside Naberezhna Pobedy Street and the Mir’a Avenue in Dnepropetrovsk. Polevaja and Vokzalnaja squares were landscaped in Zhitomir. In Odessa the entire bank staff and townspeople have worked on memorial. In the Primorski Park in Mariupol trash was removed and birches planted. Several parks have been cleaned and refined in Ivano-Frankivsk - almost 1’000 of people worked there. In Lutsk the Lesia Ukrainka Park area was put in order   and renewed with red oak seedlings. More than 1’000 people supported the "banker" community work day in Kharkov - 50 locations of the city were cleaned up and planted - in parks, squares, schools and kindergartens.
 
In Cherkassy during cleaning the woodland area near the regional hospital work day participants with the old leaves and debris found ... even a grenade. To neutralize the dangerous findings specialists of Ministry on Emergency Situations were called. On the place of the dangerous finding a small pine park grows now.

PrivatBank proceeds nationwide community work days since 1998. Whereas previously only employees of the bank and customers of the bank were taking part in it, for the last two years this action has become nationwide. This year's action was supported not only by companies, mass media and ordinary citizens, but also by local authorities of the most Ukrainian cities.