Over 1,000 people get involved in Limerick community event

MORE THAN 1,000 volunteers have taken part in a week-long ‘days for doing good’ campaign in Limerick.

Regeneron, a biotechnology company based in Raheen, celebrated its seventh year of Limerick’s largest volunteer activation project, where more than 1,000 colleagues from the company’s IOPS manufacturing facility participated in 30 local volunteer projects.

Benefiting over 20 non-profit organisations and over 170 schools in total, Regeneron’s Days for Doing Good campaign aimed to “create positive change beyond daily work” from October 20 to 26, and globally until November 2.

“Every year, our colleagues unite to promote positive social change and give back to our communities,” said Leonard S. Schleifer, MD, PhD, Board Co-Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer of Regeneron.

“Our annual Day for Doing Good epitomises our philosophy of ‘doing well by doing good,’ and each initiative we undertake is devoted to nurturing prosperity where we live and work.

“We know that by investing time in the well-being of our communities, we are also investing in a brighter, healthier future for all."

Globally, the event involves colleagues from Regeneron sites in the United States, the UK, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands and further afield.

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More than 6,000 Regeneron colleagues participated and will do so in 300 in-person, virtual and remote community service projects that will impact more than 240 non-profit and community organisations.

During the week-long campaign, Regeneron’s Raheen colleagues provided more than 1800 students with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) learning experiences across eight local communities.

They also provided computers to benefit students in 140 schools across Ireland, prepared over 23,700 donated items for five charitable organisations and spent over 600 collective hours painting and decorating spaces at Northside Family Resource Centre.

As well as that, volunteers participated in three career connection conversations with post-primary school students, impacting over 400 students, participated in a novel sustainability project called “Pocket Forests.

They collaborated with Novas, and also had volunteers carry out a city centre clean up in the Hunt Museum vicinity.

Founded 35 years ago by physician-scientists, Regeneron has numerous FDA-approved treatments.

The medicines produced are designed to help patients with eye diseases, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, hematologic (blood) conditions, infectious and rare diseases.

The company is listed as one of the most “community-minded” in the US.