Coatings World - April 2017

organize the premiere Mur Art festival of murals, holding a contest for artists to submit ideas for the best mural showing the heritage, traditions or legends related to the Cieszyn area.

The Colorful Communities project brought together more than 20 PPG volunteers from the local PPG industrial coatings plant, who spent two days revitalizing an old wall located in the city center by creating a bright, colorful mural showing the most recognizable buildings of Cieszyn – the watch tower and the castle. On the building next to this wall, contest-winning artist Mikołaj Rejs created a mural based on the Legend of Three Brothers, which is the story of the founding of the city.

“Together with the city of Cieszyn,
PPG is working to beautify and add color
to areas visited by many residents and
tourists,” said Waldemar Gołębiewski,
PPG plant manager at the Cieszyn in-
dustrial coatings facility. “The idea of a
festival of murals seemed like a perfect
opportunity to both show that PPG is a
responsible partner of the local commu-
nity and brighten the city with our du-
rable and colorful products.”
The Colorful Communities program
is PPG’s signature initiative for commu-
nity engagement efforts, with the aim
to protect and beautify the neighbor-
hoods where PPG operates around the
world. The program increases PPG’s
commitment to invest in communities
by adding $10 million to support efforts
made during a 10-year period. It sup-
ports projects that transform community
assets, providing PPG volunteers and do-
nated PPG products. PPG completed 11

Colorful Communities projects in 2015, and it expects to complete more than 30 this year.

PPG Completes Second
COLORFUL COMMUNITIES
Project in San Juan del Río,
Mexico

PPG announced the completion of its second COLORFUL COMMUNITIES project in San Juan del Río, Querétaro, Mexico, this time revitalizing the park, playground and traffic school on the grounds of the Headquarters of Crime Prevention and Citizen Participation in the La Floresta neighborhood. The global Colorful Communities program provides PPG volunteers and products along with financial contributions to bring color and vitality to communities where the company operates, such as San Juan del Río, where PPG has a coatings plant and its Mexico headquarters office.

The PPG project brought together about 100 volunteers, who worked for three days to revitalize the park, playground and traffic school. PPG provided more than $11,000 (about 200,000 pesos), including donated paints and supplies from the COMEX brand – PPG’s architectural coatings brand in Mexico – to support the project, which in addition to painting included repairs to structures and systems along with maintenance of bicycles and tricycles at the site.

The Colorful Communities proj-
ect shows PPG’s support for the
Headquarters of Crime Prevention and
Citizen Participation’s mission, to encour-
age the active and responsible participa-
tion of local residents in improving their
security through promoting a culture of
prevention, by making the public area
brighter and safer. It also promoted the
recreational use of the site, with activities
such as dance lessons and fitness classes
hosted by PPG during the weekend. The
revitalization effort will benefit about
12,000 local residents who use the area.

“As part of our corporate philosophy, PPG seeks to fill the communities where we operate with color and to support neighborhood organizations and sites that are important to our employees,” said Luis Fernandez, PPG technical director, industrial coatings, Latin America - North. “We hope that by revitalizing these facilities, we will help to promote citizen participation and strengthen the values and bonds of children, youth and adults in San Juan del Rio.”

The Colorful Communities program is PPG’s signature initiative for community engagement efforts, with the aim to protect and beautify the neighborhoods where PPG operates around the world. The program increases PPG’s commitment to invest in communities by adding $10 million to support efforts made during a 10-year period. It supports projects that transform community assets, providing PPG volunteers and donated PPG products. PPG completed 11 Colorful Communities projects in 2015, and it expects to complete more than 30 this year.