NORTH CHARLESTON, SC —MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV) has generously provided $5,000 in scholarship money for Metanoia students who participated in the 2012 MWV job shadowing program. The contribution will be used to match funds students have been saving to pay for their college tuition.
Rashawnna Hawkins, is one of the first students to graduate from Metanoia’s Freedom School, and partake in MWV’s job shadowing program. Rashawnna stated, “After job shadowing at MWV I am definitely going to pursue graphic design.” She will be starting Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Atlanta on Sept 13th. The matching funds are assisting with her tuition.
The MWV summer internship program with Metanoia gives four rising seniors an opportunity to shadow MWV employees for two weeks in different areas of the business. Metanoia students have benefited from this partnership in many ways i.e. job shadowing, mentors, and more recently the matched MWV funds for college.
“We are thrilled to have MWV support our students as they go off to college this year,” said Rev. Bill Stanfield, Metanoia CEO. “It is especially gratifying that the MWV scholarship money is matching dollars that our students have earned themselves because MWV is showing support for our approach of helping reinforce opportunities that students work to create themselves.”
About MWV
MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV), provides packaging solutions to many of the world’s most-admired brands in the healthcare, beauty and personal care, food, beverage, home and garden, and tobacco industries. The company’s businesses also include Specialty Chemicals, and the Community Development and Land Management Group, which sustainably manages the company’s land holdings to support its operations, and to provide for conservation, recreation and development opportunities. With 15,000 employees worldwide, MWV operates in 30 countries and serves customers in more than 100 nations. MWV manages all of its forestlands in accordance with internationally recognized forest certification standards, and has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for eight consecutive years.
