Helping The Hague’s biggest hospital
Each year, Saudi Aramco runs a children’s art contest and this year a number of the children with winning entries saw their art converted into colorful mosaics on a concrete bench outside The Hague’s biggest hospital ‘Haga Ziekenhuis’.
For five days over a period of three weeks, AOC and hospital volunteers took turns to help finish the bench artwork, using their practical and creative skills to help make a positive lasting impact within the grounds of the hospital.
The concrete benches, which are referred to as ‘social sofas,’ are made to serve as small meeting places, originally in residential neighborhoods, to encourage people to go out and interact with neighbors. These days, the multi-colored sofas can be found everywhere. The social sofa project for HagaZiekenhuis aims to stimulate the patients and their visitors, to get them out of the confines of their rooms and interact with other patients, visitors and hospital staff.
AOC has put a strong emphasis on corporate social responsibility in the past couple of years and has embarked on many different types of activities – visiting elderly neighbors; painting a local community center; sprucing up a playground and a school garden; participating in charity runs; digging out unwanted species in the dunes. The list goes on and on and creating mosaic art adds yet another dimension to the company’s philanthropic portfolio.
This is such a great project. It gets your creative juices flowing. Barbara Bond, AOC Finance
We have wanted these social sofas in the hospitals for sometime now. Thanks to AOC, this got the ball rolling, so after this one, we are going to do two more. The hospital’s employees are also very enthusiastic to take part in doing the mosaic. Helene Marcus, HagaZiekenhuis
