PROVIDENCE — More than 230 MetLife employees, relatives and friends turned out recently to build a new playground at Davis Park in Providence, an effort that was also paid for by the MetLife Foundation.

On June 27, the employees and executives joined residents from the Smith Hill neighborhood, as well as the Providence Parks Department and KaBOOM!, a nonprofit that helps to provide play areas nationwide, to construct the playground, which was designed based on drawings from children in the neighborhood.

More than 300 volunteers were on hand to help with the build.

Tim Bowen and Joanne Sherman, from MetLife Auto & Home in Warwick, chaired the effort to recruit volunteers, who were joined by Rob Henrikson, chairman, president and CEO of MetLife, and Bill Moore, president of MetLife Auto & Home. MetLife Foundation Chairman Gwenn Carr and President Dennis White also pitched in, as did Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline and other civic leaders.

MetLife Inc. (NYSE: MET) — the nation’s largest life insurer, based on policies in force — is a provider of insurance and financial services to more than 70 million customers in the United States, Latin America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Its Rhode Island-based MetLife Home & Auto division employs more than 2,000 people at its offices in Warwick. Additional information is available at www.MetLife.com.