Community Investment and Philanthropic Activity > Partnerships Our Partnerships The following partnerships spotlight just a few of the many organizations we supported and collaborated with globally during the year. In alignment with our new approach, we aim to Canadian Roots Exchange The Manulife Health empower sustained health and well-being by Manulife has partnered with Canadian Resilience Program increasing accessibility to easier and healthier Roots Exchange, a Canadian Indigenous for the Elderly behaviour choices through our Community youth-led organization that collaborates Investment. This is a natural extension of our with communities to provide programs, Manulife Hong Kong partnered with life insurance business as we hope to improve grants, and opportunities to strengthen Christian Family Service Centre (CFSC) Empower how well and long people live. and amplify the voices of Indigenous youth. to launch a healthcare program with Sustained Health World Central Kitchen Through this partnership, we support the flexible end-to-end medical services. & Well-being CREation Community Grants Program, a The Manulife Health Resilience Program During the year, we formalized our disaster multi-level funding program providing grants for the Elderly aims to provide 1,000 response strategy through a multi-year to strengths-based, community-focused, online medical consultations for partnership with World Central Kitchen and youth-led projects. CREation aims to seniors with limited mobility and family (WCK), a non-profit dedicated to providing empower and support Indigenous youth, support in the first phase, with end-to- meals to people impacted by humanitarian, increasing available resources for projects end support to help them rebuild their climate, and community crises worldwide. and groups that seek to create impactful physical and mental health from home. WCK’s unique model for disaster response community change and boost the wellness, Assisted by the CFSC project team with not only helps communities around the world resiliency, and engagement of Indigenous digital devices, the program offers free immediately recover from disasters by serving youth. During the year, we empowered online consultations with Chinese and freshly made, nourishing meals, but they 32 youth participants to lead projects in Western medical practitioners. After the also help invest in local economies through their communities and participate in four consultations, CFSC project staff help community-centered solutions that are critical capacity building workshops, which focused with the delivery of prescriptions. to sustained health and well-being. In 2022, on a variety of topics to foster project In 2022, 531 sessions were delivered WCK’s Relief Team mobilized with urgency to development and management. to seniors through this program. serve more than 185 million meals in Ukraine and another 10 million meals in response to emergencies in more than 30 other countries. 2022 Public Accountability Statement 5