Week 4. How does business help the country during the war?
Ukraine has been defending itself against Russia for a month now, while companies are doing everything possible to defend the home front. We are very grateful to the companies that continue to work, volunteer, and provide financial, material, and humanitarian assistance to the country during the war. Each of their stories fascinates and strengthens the sense of unity, involvement, and pride in the EBA community. Check it yourself:
Employees of the law firm Sayenko Kharenko work as volunteers in the charity fund “Dykhai” established during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, the fund has changed its core activities and transfers all charitable donations and humanitarian aid to support the civilians in Ukraine. Since the beginning of active hostilities in Ukraine, almost UAH 3 million of aid has been collected.
Foxtrot, as a member of the Euronics Group, initiated the humanitarian aid of almost 700 thousand euros from the Union of World Retailers . The company also reopened more than a hundred physical stores operating in 75 cities and districts of Ukraine. Moreover, the company organized systematic assistance to the defenders of Ukraine’s independence, providing household appliances at the request of local governments, law enforcement agencies, volunteers, social institutions, and NGOs. The company is also arranging rooms for refugees at Foxtrot facilities: the rooms have already received the first residents in Lviv and Lutsk. Soon the facilities will be open in Chernivtsi and Uzhhorod.
McDonald’s Ukraine has allocated $ 5 million and set up a fund to help workers injured in the shelling. Besides, the company donated more than 58 tons of products from its restaurants. And it will continue to do so. Also, the Ronald McDonald House Charity has supported children’s hospitals from the earliest days of the way with financial and humanitarian support.
EPAM Ukraine transferred UAH 50 million of income tax to the state budget in advance for the first quarter of 2022. It also allocated 10 million hryvnias to the Red Cross of Ukraine for medical needs, 440,000 hryvnias – to ASAP Rescue for rescue operations. Another 300,000 hryvnias went to the Lviv IT cluster to provide shelters for migrants and help Kharkiv overcome the food crisis. EPAM financially supports the blood centers so that the preservation and transportation of donated blood throughout the country can be ensured.
Infopulse transferred to the Come Back Alive Foundation (UAH 3 million) and the Lviv IT Cluster (UAH 100,000 for refugee shelters). It also provided 51 units of equipment to local territorial defense groups and to Armed Forces, allocated human resources to address specific technical projects important for the security of the country. The company has intensified cooperation with its long-term partner – the Charity Fund “Children of Hope and Love”.
Winner Group Ukraine is the official importer of Ford, MG, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche, and Bentley cars. Thus, Winner also purchased an ambulance car for a medical center that cares for wounded soldiers. The total amount of Winner’s financial support for the Armed Forces, the Territorial Defense, and charitable organizations currently amounts to over UAH 89 million.
Despite the suspension of projects, Kantar provided its employees with financial aid and decided to pay salaries for the entire period until the end of the war. Kantar’s global office has set up a $ 1 million fund to help Ukrainian employees and their families. It will also donate 250,000 GBP to humanitarian needs for people affected in Ukraine.
Kimberly-Clark International Corporation is donating $ 1 million in financial and humanitarian aid in Ukraine. This will include a $ 500,000 donation to the Red Cross, as well as $ 500,000 of essential products under Huggies, Kotex, Kleenex, Depend, and K-C Professional brands.
Parimatch Tech increased the amount of aid to Ukraine from 30 to 60 million hryvnias. On the left and right banks of Kyiv, the company has organized two warehouses that are used to coordinate, collect and deliver humanitarian aid. Besides, a significant amount of office equipment was donated to territorial defense groups: printers, laptops, monitors, network equipment, modems. Branded Teslas are now used to deliver medicines, food, and ammunition, as well as to evacuate residents of Kyiv and the region. At the same time, the non-profit Parimatch Foundation has suspended sustainable development initiatives, shifting its focus to helping war victims.
Fresenius Medical Care provides dialysis services to people with chronic kidney disease around the world. Its official offices in Ukraine are situated in Cherkasy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv. Thus, Chernihiv and Kharkiv centers provided hemodialysis under fire and at risk for the life of its specialists. Due to the complicated situation in Kharkiv, the company evacuated more than 50 patients with relatives and pets to Lviv. Patients have been resettled and will receive dialysis at a partner center. Nearly 100 patients with families from Chernihiv have been evacuated. They are currently provided with housing and will undergo hemodialysis at the Fresenius Medical Care Ukraine Center in Cherkasy.
Liga Zakon has decided to provide free access to the Liga360 IT platform to central authorities, courts, prosecutors, the army, and the territorial defense groups. More than 2,000 people have already joined the informational planform.
Ukrtelecom maintains the telecom services for the population regardless of the balance on the account. In Kropyvnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Khmelnytsky, Uzhhorod, Mukachevo, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, the company’s premises are being equipped for temporary accommodation of workers and their families. During the 20 days of the war, the operator sent about 18 million hryvnias to help the Armed Forces and the territorial defense group.
Festo is a German family-owned private company. The owners have already donated EUR 100,000 to the German fund that organizes humanitarian aid for Ukraine and are going to provide further aid in the near future.
Kremenchukgaz transferred UAH 250,000 to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, UAH 150 thousand for humanitarian aid to Ukrainians, UAH 200,000 to the accounts of local medical institutions that receive evacuees from the East, North, and South of Ukraine. The company also provides assistance to the territorial defense forces – the company’s employees produced 360 anti-car “hedgehogs”.
Since the first day of the war, Sanofi in Ukraine has made every effort to provide patients with access to vital treatment, as well as to minimize the impact of the war on the ongoing clinical trials in Ukraine. Through its charitable foundation, Sanofi provided € 5 million in donations to the Red Cross and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
In general, the EBA Health Care Committee member companies, namely AbbVie, Arterium, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Darnitsa, Egis, Farmak, Novartis, Orion Pharma, Pfizer, Philips, Roche Diagnostics, Sandoz, Sanofi, Takeda, Teva, USB, Wörwag Pharma provided assistance to Ukraine in the amount of about 44.1 million US dollars – read more.
Strong support is also felt from the members of the EBA Committee for Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Development. Thus, Asters, Ferrexpo, GTH, Kronospan, Bayer, Metinvest, ArcelorMittal, DTEK, MHP, BASF, Kernel are focused on four volunteering areas: providing humanitarian aid, support of medical institutions, evacuation, and shelters for people from combat areas.
And that’s not all. Our marathon of stories will be continued.
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