Bee Engineering creates tool to donate essential goods through 1 KM routes
- The platform is called Bee Explorers and aims to strengthen the connection between employees, promoting their well-being and guaranteeing donations to associations.
- Bee Engineering team has already used the app in Lisbon and secured more than 40 kilos of first-class goods. need and tech material to the Entrajuda Association
Bee Academy 2022 – the Bee Engineering academy – has developed Bee Explorers, a platform with routes through different locations and different applicability and is already being used for the donation of solidarity goods. The stipulated routes were only one kilometer long (although longer routes can also be defined) and have different stops, to which the points are assigned. At the end, the final score is considered, which will define the number of materials and food to be delivered to the institutions.
“Bee Explorers represents the ideal combinationbetween team building and social responsibility, a philosophy by which we aregoverned. Thus, in addition to this activity that brings teams together andallows them to get closer, it also ensures that they do it around a common andsolidary purpose”, says José Leal e Silva, Executive Director of BeeEngineering.
The first initiative, called Team Explorerswith Social Mind, took place at the end of September. The employees of thistech company got together in Lisbon to carry out, as a group, four differentroutes. In the end, the suggested objective was achieved: they raised 40 kilosof first-class goods – rice, pasta, tuna… – delivered to Entrajuda. Someused tech or with anomalies material was also delivered to encourage youngpeople from these associations to repair it. The objective is to promote thedesire to learn more about this craft, thus returning to school.
This technological solution was created to beimplemented by the Bee Engineering team, but it can be used by other companiesthat want to have Corporate Social Responsibility. “The combination of sportsactivities that promote well-being with solidarity motivates professionals tofeel that they are part of an ecosystem that cares as much about themselves asfor others”.
Other solidarity tools
Before Bee Explorers, Bee Engineering hadalready created Bee Kind - a video game with challenges based on 'taps' - andwhich secured the donation of several contributions to União Zoófila. In thelast year it also created the Bee Social Opportunity, a pro bono program thatmakes 2000 hours of its team available to SMEs and NGOs that need technologicalsupport.
