Company: Sealand - A Maersk Company, Miramar, FL USA
Nomination Submitted by: The Collaboration Vector Inc.
Company Description: Sealand, a division of the Maersk Group, is an intra-regional logistics and shipping company headquartered in Miramar, Florida with representation in 29 countries across the Americas.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year - in Mexico, the Caribbean & Central and South America
 Nomination Title: Sealand – A Maersk Company and Sor Dominga Bocca Leave no Stone Unturned
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: Briefly describe the nominated organization: its history and past performance (up to 200 words):
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Sealand – A Maersk Company, is an integrated container logistics company born and bred to service people and relationships*. Since 2015, the company has been growing a goal-directed community program that counts 15 long-term partnerships throughout the Americas aligned with 3 UN SDGs.* In Ecuador, Sealand has been partnering with Sor Dominga Bocca (SDB) since 2019*, a non-profit serving 22 girls who are no longer able to live in their family homes because of having suffered a human rights violation. The program empowers the girls with the professional and personal skills needed to become entrepreneurs and “independent women of the future”. When COVID-19 and quarantine hit shortly after this partnership was secured, the team pivoted to meet the girls’ holistic needs but without ever losing sight of its original scope in Quality Education and Decent Work. Sealand leaders scaled local leadership capacity to include representation from other A.P. Moller – Maersk brands and formed a bigger, more formalized multibrand community leadership team (CLT). This is bringing a world of opportunity to the girls including the addition of an environmental education and awareness program*. No stone has been left unturned!
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Outline the organization's achievements since the beginning of 2020 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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As The Collaboration Vector and Sealand’s community program implementation partner, it’s our privilege to share this story of exceptional teamwork by multibrand leaders Debbie Andrea Pena, Karen Estupinan, Flor Sanchez, Maria Teresa Zavala, Olga Ruiz, Ana Maria Canarte, Morena Escorcia, volunteers in Ecuador, and Sor Dominga Bocca. At the outset of the pandemic, Sealand released funds to ensure the girls would have everything needed. SDB provided shelter and a volunteer to live with the girls 24/7. The girls shared meals and established a routine including exercising, planting home gardens, attending mass on television, and enjoying laughter therapy. Family and change management educators provided virtual age-specific live motivational programming focussed on strengthening emotional skills during difficult times. Virtual connections with siblings in other shelters were facilitated. The girls benefitted from vocational training, coaching by employees, and well-being sessions*. Employees delivered energetic and creative sessions covering a wide range of personal and professional development topics*. SDB worked with the girls in between sessions to integrate learnings. Some of the girls developed a passion for baking inspired by pasty-making school. They practised on weekends, perfecting chocolate nut tarts, "3 leches ", coffee and coconut flans*. By the end of 2021, they were ready to go to market with their baked goods. SDB worked with them to better understand packaging and the cost/pricing model, and the girls sold their products at a local fair*. 2022 developments included adding an environmental education and awareness program*, and a transition program for girls leaving the home*.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 250 words):
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Speed of Action
- Seamless transition to COVID-19 environment, virtual services, virtual volunteering
Holistic and Inclusive
- Strived to meet every single girl’s needs
- Great respect given to the girls and their rights as individuals and as a group
- Modelling of productive co-existence and the power of community/solidarity
Insightful, creative volunteer program
- Designing and delivering an exceptional and diverse virtual volunteering program
- Value of discipline in life, children’s rights, Excel/PPT training, job search on LinkedIn, yoga, nutrition and exercise, super brain and memory, responsible use of social media, and more*
- A native Ecuadorian employee who had taken a position with the company in Florida, returned “virtually” to provide coaching and motivational sessions to the girls on topics including self-love, compassion, positive thinking, values. She had extensive experience working with at-risk girls.
- Effective scaling of leadership team and volunteer program across brands; preserved integrity
Environmental education and awareness program
- CLT worked with SDB and another non-profit to include the girls in “Sowing a City” in Lomas de Sargentillo. The team of girls, employees, and non-profits planted beautiful plants, native to the area and the coast, along the median of the main street*.
- SDB recruited one of Ecuador’s leading environmental experts as a volunteer to implement an environmental program with the girls*. It will develop them as agents of change in environmental sustainability issues through “learning by doing". In step 1, the girls implemented a recycling program at their home after learning how to separate plastics, cardboard, tetra pack, glass, and paper*.
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