![]() This includes USD10 million donated to Red Cross* and UNICEF to provide urgent medical support and protect and educate vulnerable children across markets in Asia and Africa. Charities and NGO partners are being selected based on their understanding of local needs and their ability to provide rapid support to individuals and communities.ĭonations have been focused around some key themes including: supporting frontline healthcare workers with personal protective equipment (PPE) and other support services funding medical equipment and testing supporting services for vulnerable groups, such as food provision, housing assistance, visits and advice enabling health and hygiene communication and helping young people to continue their education.īelow are just some of examples of the initiatives we’re supporting across our regions: The remainder of the fund is being allocated through our markets. Commenting on our donation, Matt Stringer, CEO at RNIB, one of the UK’s leading sight loss charities, said: “We want to ensure the millions of people with sight loss across the UK stay safe and feel connected during the pandemic.” Our colleagues in the UK helped choose where local donations went, with St John Ambulance as one of the chosen charities In the UK, colleagues helped determine where donations should go and chosen charities include St John Ambulance, which provides critical staff to support the NHS on the front line, and the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to help blind and partially-sighted people access sight-loss advice services and its helpline. In other parts of Europe, funds were donated to leading French philanthropic network Fondation de France to support caregivers, researchers and help the most vulnerable, and the Aircraft Leasing Ireland Initiative, a direct PPE procurement scheme for the Irish Health Service Executive and healthcare charity. In Poland, our donation to the Fundacja Wielka Orkiestra Swiatecznej Pomocy will fund the purchase of PPE such as masks, aprons, gloves, sanitisers, and life-saving medical equipment for hospitals. Beth Shapiro, Executive Director, Citymeals on Wheels in New York, said: “This generous and critical support will help us to deliver 450,000 shelf-stable emergency meals to more than 40,000 elderly New Yorkers during the pandemic and maintain our normal meal delivery services.” In the US, funds pledged to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey and the New York-based Citymeals on Wheels will provide nutritious food to vulnerable families and elderly people directly to their homes or through mobile pop-ups. Meanwhile, our emergency relief donations to the United Way of the Bay Area (UBWA) in San Francisco and United Way of Greater Houston in Texas will help provide meals, housing assistance, transport, medical services and emergency childcare for those in need. More than half of the Group’s USD10 million donation to Red Cross and UNICEF will provide urgent medical support and protect and educate vulnerable children across Africa and the Middle East. Dr Simon Missiri, Regional Director for Africa, at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said: “Our volunteers are the frontline responders, and these funds will help address some of the most urgent health and socio-economic impacts faced by the most vulnerable people.” Donations to Red Cross in South Africa and elsewhere are helping frontline responders USD3.55 million has gone to Red Cross for urgent medical support in Pakistan, Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Tanzania. Meanwhile, USD3.25 million has been donated to UNICEF for the immediate protection and education of vulnerable children in Pakistan, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gary Stahl, Director, UNICEF Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division, said: “In any crisis, the young and the most vulnerable suffer disproportionately. ![]()
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