The management of van den Berg Kenya is proud to announce receiving of yet another award by Workers Rights Watch. This time van den Berg RoseS Kenya is winner over the period 2008-2009 for ‘’Exemplary contribution towards observing corporate and ethical business practices’’. The reward was officially signed at the first of June 2009, by the general manager Johan Remeeus, and Workers Rights Watch representatives…… 

The management of Van den Berg RoseS Kenya sees this reward as an acknowledgement of their efforts regarding; 

• Human rights observance
• Corporate social responsibility
• Good and fair personnel management
• Occupational health and safety
• Protection against sexual harassment
  

Since the start of the company in 2004, corporate social responsibility always has been a mayor focus of the management. In 2004 it started with salaries higher then the industrial average, and free health care for employees. While nowadays van den Berg RoseS Kenya is running several programs and committees in order to raise living standards of employees. 

Examples of these programs and committies are; 

• APHIA 2 program, a USAID sponsored program dealing with fighting HIV and Malaria, by free testing and free supply of precaution measures to employees.
• Horticultural Crops Development Authority, which is based on supporting HIV infected employees, with medicines and nutritious foods.
• Free health care for employees, and reduced prices for their families by our own clinic.
• Welfare committee, which deals with welfare of van den Berg employees.
• Sexual harassment/discrimination committee, which fights sexual harassment and discrimination within the company.  
• Sponsoring programs, for example paying teachers, constructing toilets for students, and supporting the construction of boreholes, in order to supply fresh drinking water.
• Annual clothing collecting in Holland, which are handed out free of charge to our employees and their families.

Corporate social responsibility is a continuous process, which van den Berg RoseS Kenya will continue to implement and improve, in order to reach better living standards for our employees, and the entire community.