BASF Report 2021 Management’s Report – We Value People and Treat Them with Respect 107 which aim to help improve local living conditions, then enter the German sites (€702,668 in total) to around €1.4 million. BASF implementation phase. BASF contributes both technical expertise Stiftung distributed the donations to affected private households and resources to the projects to address local challenges and and charitable institutions. In September, BASF donated $500,000 contribute to the SDGs. One project under our Starting Ventures to disaster relief following Hurricane Ida and for long-term recovery program is the Waste- 2- Chemicals project in Lagos, Nigeria. Under efforts in Louisiana. Local nonprofit organizations used $300,000 of the project, plastic waste is collected by local residents, sorted this amount for emergency relief and reconstruction. In addition, and then converted into pyrolysis oil. This pyrolysis oil is used as $200,000 went to supporting BASF employees who were directly feedstock in the production of high-quality chemical products. In impacted by the effects of the hurricane. cooperation with nonprofit organizations, this will enable local waste For more information on Starting Ventures, see basf.com/en/starting-ventures collectors and their families to earn a regular income. For more information on societal engagement at our sites, see ludwigshafen.basf.de For more information on our societal engagement around the world, see basf.com/en/engagement BASF Group expenses for societal engagement activities¹ ~€30 million In the area of international development cooperation, we support the independent charitable BASF Stiftung with donations for its projects in cooperation with various organizations. The 2021 year-end donation campaign in favor of BASF Stiftung supported the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, which celebrated its 75th anniversary. Together with the Indian organization ChildLine and other partners, UNICEF is working to provide psychosocial care for children in India who have had difficulty accessing important services as a result of the pandemic. BASF doubled the donations made by employees of participating German Group companies to a total of around €600,000. BASF also made donations to support those affected by natural disasters in 2021. In July, BASF donated €1 million to flood relief in Germany, which hit the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate particularly hard. The donation went to the German Red Cross, which was active in these crisis regions. In August, BASF doubled the amount donated by employees at its 1 As of 2020, we report a total figure for our societal engagement activities. The figure includes all consolidated companies with employees, including joint operations.