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From gas turbines and ultrafibre water purification technology to LEDs and healthcare industrial internet software, the output of GE’s 12 manufacturing plants, 3 regional business headquarters, 5 technology centers and 1 Global Operations Center is impressive.

Now the corporate executives of GE Global Operations are helping to make the buildings of schools, kindergartens, healthcare and cultural institutions, including Radnóti Theater, more attractive in Budapest. As part of the company’s annually organised CSR program, 350 corporate executives from 26 countries help institutions and people in need with volunteer work.

Besides renovating, they will give lectures about usage of digital devices to civil organizations, cook for homeless people and hold wheelchair sports day. I was invited along for a ’behind the scenes’ of the CSR program, during which leaders of the company of GE Global Operations in Europe, Russia & CIS and well-known Hungarian actors of Radnóti Theater, including Adel Kovats, Zsolt Laszlo, Dorina Martinovics, Eliza Sodro and Bjorn Bergabo, got together at the courtyard of the neighboring building, to put to good use their renovations talents…and a fine job they did!

Words and photos by Russell Skidmore for XpatLoop.com
After an extensive career in advertising - as an Art Director & Creative Director in London, Paris and Budapest for leading agencies - Russel transferred the skills and knowledge gained to the development of his own successful company covering wedding, event, PR and portrait photography: www.russell-skidmore-photography.co.uk