Shell Initiatives

 Shell Eco Marathon (SEM) is a global project that encourages students around the world to build fuel efficient vehicles that travel further using less energy. In 2009, 4 student teams from Pakistan became the first participants from the Subcontinent to take part in this global event. In 2010, Pakistan made history once again by having 20 student teams represent Pakistan at the event – the highest number of participants from Asia.

Shell LiveWIRE’s local Tameer programme is one of the foremost efforts to develop entrepreneurship in Pakistan. Since its launch in 2003, Tameer has provided guidance and training to over 50,000 youth across the country. Tameer was recently selected from amongst 29 Shell LiveWIRE programs around the world as a global best practice.

Shell Pakistan has partnered with the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and Health and Nutrition Development Authority (HANDS) to transform an impoverished village on the outskirts of Karachi into a model settlement with housing, sanitation, health and education facilities. Community members will be taught new skills to earn an income so that they are able to have financial ownership in the projects development, drawing on Shell’s focus toward sustainable development.

Project Awaz provides employment opportunities to underprivileged people with hearing impairments at Shell retail stations in Karachi. The project was launched in 2010 as a pilot project and is now being expanded to include sites in Lahore and Islamabad.  

Shell Pakistan has been recognised for its HIV / Aids prevention program as being a best practise within Shell Group. The programme seeks to provide free HIV consultation and awareness to truck drivers, a key HIV demographic, along truck routes and fuel depots in Pakistan. Shell has also supported the Marie Stopes Society to promote HIV awareness across Pakistan.

Shell Pakistan has set up a Relief Donation Fund to support flood relief efforts across Pakistan. Donations to this fund have been collected from across Shell staff worldwide and are being used to provide meals and medical assistance to residents of Noshera, MuzzafarGarh, Sukkur and Rojhan Jamali. Beyond financial support, Shell is also managing a three-fold increase in supply of fuel for humanitarian flights at Sukkur Airport.

In addition to supporting a home in the SOS Children’s Village, a home for orphan children, Shell Pakistan has also donated funds to the SOS Technical School. Shell Pakistan supports their Automobile Technical Department to educate youth in automobile engineering.

Shell Pakistan’s Scholarship programme, now in its second year has supported 50 deserving students from underprivileged sectors of society for degrees in higher education at top Engineering and Business universities across Pakistan.

Shell Pakistan recently partnered with the Citizens Foundation (TCF) to launch the “Fuelling Education” campaign. Through this initiative, Shell and TCF offered scholarships to the children of retail forecourt staff in TCF schools nationwide.  Shell Pakistan also supported TCF to construct 4 primary schools in regions affected by the 2005 Northern Areas Earthquake.

Shell has always placed great importance on the health, safety and environment aspect of the society it does business in. Safety is one of our top priorities, and we base our policies on the belief that all accidents are preventable. The ‘Shell Happy Roads Programme’ is a road safety programme aimed at teaching 7 to12 year old children the rules of the road, as well as shaping the skills and habits necessary to stay safe. So far, over 23,000 children in more than 80 private and public schools have been given this training.

Shell has always supported the community in which it operates in. A good example is the Neighborhood Beautification project in which Shell upgraded the road infrastructure, lighting, landscape, drainage, shrubbery and green space around Shell House. Shell also inaugurated a new bus stop for residents and installed road safety messages to keep our community safe.

At Shell Pakistan, heritage is an important area of focus within our social investment programme.  For this very reason, the company has undertaken major responsibilities to conserve and reinstate many historical monuments of Pakistan. Among these projects are the Mohatta Palace, The Rohtas Fort and most recently the Bibi Jawandi tomb in Uch.