XL Capital – Global Day of Giving

XL Capital celebrated its fifth annual Global Day of Giving, an employee volunteer day dedicated to supporting the communities in which XL companies operate. More than 2,000 XL colleagues in 25 countries helped out more than 170 community projects. In Montreal, XL employees lent a hand to Moisson Montreal, Canada’s largest food bank. XL’s Toronto office split into two teams and focused their efforts on sprucing up the Cabbagetown Youth Centre and the Toronto Friendship Centre. At the Toronto Friendship Centre, about 30 XL colleagues painted the community centre, a drop-in location for people living through “the affordable housing crisis,” At a time when job shortages and changes in the social service system have increased the number of people living in hostels and on the streets, the Toronto Friendship Centre provides a safe, warm and friendly place for those who are homeless or marginally homeless. XL’s team was able to give nearly the entire interior of the centre a fresh coat of paint and planted a small flower garden outside. Another 24 XL employees in Toronto spent their Global Day of Giving at the Cabbagetown Youth Centre. Founded as the Cabbagetown Boxing Club in 1972, the CYC began providing social programs for youth in Toronto’s eastern, inner-city core. There, XL staff repaired and painted walls and baseboards. They also installed new ceiling tiles to make the centre’s classrooms — used for English-as-a-second-language classes — look like new.

See all photos from this event at www.canadianunderwriter.ca/gallery