Environmental Initiatives in Europe: The Travelers Europe Forest Takes Shape

Within our European operations, we partner with OnHand, a “tech for good” organization that matches volunteers with opportunities in their local communities through a mobile phone app. By providing companionship to isolated individuals, mentoring disadvantaged youth and engaging in other volunteer activities, employees can also have a positive environmental impact.

As part of our partnership with OnHand, we commit to plant one tree in the “Travelers Europe Forest” for each employee who completes their first volunteering activity. To make an even greater impact from the outset, OnHand and Travelers Europe started the forest in 2021 by seeding two trees for every Travelers Europe employee. At the time, the number of trees in the forest totaled 1,300.

Travelers Europe and OnHand also plant trees for employees who earn them by completing environmental sustainability actions at home. These actions range from eliminating single-use plastics to reducing food waste by cooking meals for the vulnerable. Thanks to employees’ actions in both the United Kingdom and Ireland, the forest grew to include more than 4,500 trees by year-end 2023.

Travelers Europe partners with OnHand to plant trees in global farming communities severely impacted by deforestation, such as those in Mozambique and Nicaragua.