| We believe that
our responsibility
for good practice and our
commitment to forging strong
relationships are not limited to
our customers and our employees.
We consider it a priority to build
relationships and make a
contribution in the communities
in which we operate.
Each year we make significant
donations to charity, focusing
on children's issues. We also
encourage our clients and partners
to join us in these initiatives by
sending them, once a year, a list
with details of the charities to which
we have made donations. |
We contribute
to direct action, selfhelp
projects. For example, we
sponsor educational projects in
villages in the Gambia through Action
Aid. Through UK Comic Relief we
support various projects in Africa,
Latin America and the UK. And we
make annual contributions to projects
organised by Medecins Sans
Frontieres and to local charities in
communities where we have offices.
Integra also concentrates charitable
activities in the medical field of
high-risk obstetrics. From 2001 we
have been facilitating a European medical
doctor exchange in this area. The
first one-year exchange post was
taken up in August 2001. |
We
arranged and sponsored
a symposium on high-risk
obstetrics at the new University
Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland in
September 2002. Specialists from
all over Europe met to
exchange ideas and listen to
presentations from leading experts
in this field.
And our Belgian office has been
instrumental in the setting up a
foetal medicine charity with the
Professor of Obstetrics at UCL in
Brussels to fund research in this
area. A member of our senior
management is on the advisory board
of this charity. |
