Social Responsibility on a Global Scale

[EC8] ProLogis is committed to supporting community programs that improve the health and welfare of children and youth in the regions where we operate. During 2008, the company completed charitable activities in virtually every country in which it operates. For example, in Mexico, ProLogis and MolsonCoors Brewery joined forces to co-sponsor a fundraising event benefiting the victims of the flood-ravaged cities of Tabasco and Chiapas. Organized by Project C.U.R.E, the event helped secure much needed medical supplies and equipment, which were delivered on a cargo container. In addition to providing financial support for the supplies and the delivery, ProLogis staff was onsite for the unloading of the container.

In San Antonio, Texas, 11 people from the ProLogis office spent a day rebuilding and renovating a home for a family of three through its partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Work on the home included installing doors, windowsills, trim, baseboards, floors, shelving and interior hardware, as well as painting, caulking and tiling. The home is located on the east side of the city in an area where Habitat builds about 50 homes a year; this is the third house the local ProLogis team has helped build in the San Antonio area.

In the U.K., ProLogis contributed time and money to support a variety of education-based organizations. In Bristol, we contributed toward a new bus for a school for hearing impaired children, replacing their old, worn-out bus. In Birmingham, the team renovated a garden at a school in an economically deprived area. They also worked directly with the students on reading and other projects and restored part of an outdoor activity center there. In Dartford, ProLogis donated a half-acre site for the development of a construction skills workshop, now known as the ProLogis Academy. This site will serve as a job training facility for people seeking employment at construction and infrastructure projects throughout the region.

In Budapest, Hungary, we renovated an old building to serve as a new kindergarten school for "Beszélj Velem" (Speak to Me Foundation); a non-profit organization that teaches disabled children between the ages of three and eight. In 2008, the foundation stopped receiving support for a lease on a building where the kindergarten had been located for several years, forcing them to move to an old, run-down building. Since they had no available funding to refurbish the facility, they turned to ProLogis Hungary for help. The ProLogis team, along with a network of construction subcontractors, helped renovate the building, paint and improve the landscaping, resulting in a nicer environment for the children.

At ProLogis offices in Tokyo, our employees have been collecting plastic bottle caps from water, teas or other drinks, which are then sent to a non-profit group called "Eco-Cap Movement." The organization sells the caps to local recycling plants and donates the proceeds to another non-profit in Japan called "Vaccines for the World’s Children," which sends polio vaccines to children in developing countries.

In China, we pledged to fund the construction of one new school for every five million square feet of industrial development completed. In 2008, we developed three new schools, bringing the total number of schools built in China to four. In addition to the construction, ProLogis also donated books, TV sets, disc players and other items for the students' use. More than 1,000 students attend the schools, which are located in the Guangxi, Dalian and Ningxia regions.

One of the most significant donations from last year was the result of a global, collective effort among ProLogis employees following the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit central China in May of 2008, killing more than 69,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. We partnered with Mercy Corps, an international humanitarian aid and development charitable organization that focuses on emergency relief services, to participate in the aid and relief efforts for the survivors affected. Donations from our employees around the world, plus matching from the ProLogis Foundation, resulted in a total contribution amount of 4.73 million RMB (US$691,000) to support the China earthquake relief funds.