Institutional portal - Municipality of Milan

Over 300 people at work. Lipparini: “Today's activity is the tangible demonstration of the importance of collaboration between public, private and associations for the care of the common good”

Milan, July 5 2019 – This morning, starting at 9, around 300 employees of the Samsung electronics Italia headquarters and 25 volunteers from Retake Milan participated in the second edition of the SAVE for Milan project, the corporate volunteering activity organized in collaboration with the Retake association Milan and sponsored by the Municipality of Milan. 
 
Two objectives were achieved during the morning: cleaning the facade of the Saini Sports Center, in via Corelli 136, from the writings on the walls, and the cleaning of Parco Forlanini thanks to plogging, the activity that combines physical activity in the open air with cleaning of surrounding spaces. For the occasion, the benches in the park were also cleaned and repainted. 

Inaugurating the day were Lorenzo Lipparini, Councilor for Participation, Active Citizenship and Open Data, and Chiara Bisconti, President of Milano Sport, who symbolically launched the activities together with the management of Samsung electronics Italia.

“Today's activity is the tangible demonstration of the importance of collaboration between public, private and associations for the care of the common good – declared councilor Lorenzo Lipparini -. As a municipal administration we are satisfied with the success that the instrument of collaboration agreements introduced with the recently approved regulation is experiencing. Thanks to Retake who has stood by us from the beginning for the improvement of our city and thanks to Samsung for actively involving over 300 employees to clean up Forlanini Park and Saini Sports Center together. We are doing everything possible to accompany and enhance the enthusiasm and competence of citizens and companies who choose to commit themselves to the care of the city, and we are recording a constant growth of this type of initiative in terms of number, complexity and impact on the quality of life in the neighborhoods".

“For more than 25 years, Samsung in Italy has stood out in the development of highly innovative initiatives in various fields - from art to school, from security to professional training - aimed at enhancing digital in support of specific local needs. And with this second edition of SAVE for Milan, even bigger and more demanding, we are proud to once again give our contribution to the recovery of an important green area of ​​the city of Milan such as the Forlanini Park, and with this project we reiterate even more the our commitment to promoting the culture of sustainability and respect for the environment in our country – commented Mario Levratto, Head of marketing & external relations of Samsung electronics Italia.