{"id":256,"date":"2017-09-04T08:25:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T08:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.omg.com\/mena\/trekking-to-everest-base-camp\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T19:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:09:44","slug":"trekking-to-everest-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/trekking-to-everest-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Trekking to Everest Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9391\" src=\"https:\/\/omnicommediagroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/orphanage.jpg\" alt=\"orphanage\" width=\"1000\" height=\"755\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-35px\"><em><strong>Expedition raises funds for two causes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 31 August, a group of 26 employees, led by our CEO Elie Khouri, set off to Nepal for a 10 day-trek. The group, comprising staff from all our agencies, will climb\u00a0from Lukla to Everest Base Camp with Gulf For Good. This initiative is a key component of our\u00a0CSR\/sustainability plan.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge, which will see them walk for some 100 km, has helped raise valuable funds for two causes. These are Mission Himalaya, a local orphanage and eco farm, and the UNHCR. With the funds, Mission Himalaya will build a new dormitory for the boys. It will also get a solar panel system, computers and school supplies. Our donation to the UNHCR is for the medical treatment of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Omnicom Media Group MENA\u00a0reports its sustainability activities in accordance with the GRI G4 Guidelines. Our\u00a0first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/static.globalreporting.org\/report-pdfs\/2015\/da8d90d2c9850fab18e3eb1f483c6d8b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>\u00a0was awarded at the 2015 Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expedition raises funds for two causes On 31 August, a group of 26 employees, led by our CEO Elie Khouri, set off to Nepal for a 10 day-trek. The group, comprising staff from all our agencies, will climb\u00a0from Lukla to Everest Base Camp with Gulf For Good. This initiative is a key component of our\u00a0CSR\/sustainability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,63],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mena-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnicommedia.com\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}