The UPS Foundation Awards $16 Million To Increase Humanitarian Relief, Community Resilience And Safety Efforts
12 Avril 2018 - 3:00PM
The UPS Foundation, which leads the global citizenship efforts
of UPS (NYSE: UPS), today announced it is awarding 2018 grants and
in-kind support totaling more than $16 million to non-profit,
non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies for
humanitarian relief, community resilience and safety programs
worldwide. Grants provide support for disaster response,
preparedness and recovery, enhancing public health care supply
chains and improving global road safety.
Among the programs, The UPS Foundation is expanding its work
with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Zipline, a California-based
robotics company, to leverage drones to deliver life-saving blood,
medicines and vaccines to remote communities like Rwanda. The
global partnership, which was announced in May 2016 and formally
launched the first drone deliveries in October 2016, has resulted
in more than 4,000 drone deliveries expediting over 7,000 units of
blood to remote hospitals across Rwanda. The world’s first
national medical drone delivery network in Rwanda has proven so
successful that in 2018 it’s being expanded across all of
Rwanda.
“This groundbreaking partnership with Gavi and Zipline provides
access to life-saving medical supplies in only minutes rather than
hours for millions of men, women and children in need,” said
Eduardo Martinez, president of The UPS Foundation and chief
diversity and inclusion officer. “With this expansion, the reach of
the drone program will double from 6 million to 12 million people
across Rwanda. Additionally, the initiative will
expand to deliver basic medications, vaccines, and medical
supplies to hospitals and health clinics via drone.”
The UPS Foundation’s top goal is to leverage its philanthropy,
the resources of UPS and expertise of its employees to create
public-private partnerships that are dedicated to advance the
resiliency of communities around the world.
“UPS is honored to work side-by-side with these preeminent
institutions who together are impacting the lives of people in
crisis today and helping to “future proof” these communities so
that they can thrive in a safer, healthier and more prosperous
world,” said Martinez.
The UPS Foundation also will award grants to the following
organizations, among many others:
- American Red Cross, in support of the Annual Disaster Giving
Program that enables the Red Cross to provide food and shelter
immediately following disasters as well as the Home Fire
Preparedness Campaign
- CARE USA, to aid with emergency response and to develop
supply chain solutions for vital relief efforts in famine impacted
areas of Africa
- Good360, in continued support of DisasterRecovery360 platform
technology enhancements and transportation assistance for long term
recovery efforts
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies (IFRC), toward the Community Pandemic Preparedness
Program and support for local resilience programs
- National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD), to
support the organization’s Long-term Recovery Initiatives
and Long-term Recovery Mini-Grant Program
- Operation Hope, toward the Disaster Recovery Fund to help
disaster survivors with financial recovery solutions as well as the
Financial Recovery Preparedness Program for small businesses
- St. Bernard Project, Inc., to support the National Disaster
Resilience & Recovery Lab (DRL), which provides re-building
support for communities impacted by disasters
- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, toward capacity building for
global fleet management, emergency preparedness supply training and
Safe Road Use workshops
- UNICEF, toward efforts to strengthen health system supply
chains through vaccine stock management tool development and
emergency and global crises transportation support
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Corporate Citizenship Center, to aid
in the expansion of the Connecting Business Disaster Resilience
Program and Resilience in a Box Toolkit to enhance the disaster
preparedness of small and medium businesses and to build community
resilience
- World Food Program USA, in support of emergency and global
crisis response and capacity building efforts including road safety
training in Tanzania, and food distribution supply chain
optimization efforts in Rwanda and India
The UPS Foundation also will award grants that help extend the
reach of UPS Road Code™, a teen and novice safe driving training
program available in the United States and internationally. Taught
by UPS volunteers and based on the company’s safe-driving methods,
the program is available to teens between the ages of 13 and
18. To date, more than 48,000 teenagers have
participated. The program has been extended to Canada, China,
Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United Arab
Emirates.
The program is offered in the U.S. with the Boys & Girls
Clubs of America, and overseas in six countries with various youth
development organizations. The UPS Foundation has contributed $16.6
million to the UPS Road Code program since its inception.
These community investments are part of The UPS Foundation’s
commitment to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and
advancing humanitarian action and global resilience by combining
its philanthropy with the resources of UPS and the expertise and
volunteer spirit of UPSers all over the world. For more information
about UPS’s philanthropic and volunteerism efforts, please
visit www.UPS.com/Foundation.
About The UPS Foundation
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering a
broad range of solutions including the transportation of packages
and freight; the facilitation of international trade, and the
deployment of advanced technology to more efficiently manage the
world of business. Since its founding in 1907, UPS has built a
legacy as a caring and responsible corporate citizen, supporting
programs that provide long-term solutions to community needs.
Founded in 1951, The UPS Foundation leads its global citizenship
programs and is responsible for facilitating community involvement
to local, national, and global communities. In 2017, UPS and its
employees, active and retired, invested more than $118 million in
charitable giving around the world. The UPS Foundation can be found
on the web at UPS.com/Foundation
and @UPS_Foundation on Twitter. To get UPS
news direct, follow @UPS_News on
Twitter.
Kristen Petrella, UPS
404-828-4182
kpetrella@ups.com
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