Our Social Responsibility

At AerCap, our employees are proud to be a part of a company that seeks to do good for each other and our communities. Over the last several years. during the months of October and November, AerCap employees have supported Breast Cancer Awareness month and the Movember campaign – both of which aim to create awareness of women’s and men’s health issues and raise funds to support these causes. AerCap encourages employees to get involved through companywide fundraisers which involve the matching of funds raised through employee organized events.

AerCap supports the development of the next generation of talent through a number of educational initiatives. In 2019, we established a scholarship program with the University of Limerick, the first Women in Aviation program of its type in Ireland. The program aims to create awareness amongst female students of Aeronautical Engineering as a career option and encourage more females into the industry.

AerCap has partnered with LGBT Ireland, a national support service for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people, together with their families and friends. AerCap has pledged its support by making a contribution to the LGBT Champions Program, an advanced training and support program for health and social care staff working with older people in the community. The program’s aim is to address the inequalities in access to health and social care services experienced by older LGBT+ people, by equipping staff to deliver care in a more appropriate way. AerCap’s donation will fund a part-time trainer for six months and will enable LGBT Ireland to continue its important work.

AerCap is proud of its long-standing partnership with Orbis Ireland, a global charity fighting blindness through training, advocacy and research. One of its initiatives, the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, is an aircraft with an on-board training facility that reaches developing countries and regions that otherwise may lack access to training. Over the past several years, AerCap employees have participated in many organized Orbis fundraising events, in support of Orbis’ sight-saving work in southern Ethiopia. In 2022, a group of 17 employees from offices across the company took part in the Great Ethiopian Run, a 10 kilometer run through the city of Addis Ababa.

AerCap is proud to sponsor Leinster Hockey, supporting their ambitious high-performance player and coach development program for the Junior Age teams. This initiative aims to inspire the next generation of junior age hockey players.

We are proud to partner with Concern Worldwide to support the CHANGE program, an educational initiative for marginalized girls aged 15-19 in achieving better literacy, numeracy skills. Based in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, the program is helping to reintroduce vulnerable girls to education, giving them skills and resources that they need to develop sustainable livelihoods and take control of their future. Our funding goes towards the provision of school desks, learning aids and school equipment, as well as seed money to support girls set-up small businesses.