More fertilizer related companies announced major donations for relief to Haiti last week, adding to the previously reported list (GM Jan. 18, p. 15).
Honeywell announced comprehensive plans to provide both immediate and long-term aid to Haitian earthquake relief efforts. The company will commit $1 million in cash, including a 100 percent match of employee donations, to fund rebuilding projects in Haiti. Honeywell is also making its business jets available and has already provided airlift support to Operation USA to deliver 1,500 lbs. of medical supplies, including urgently-needed, high-value antibiotics, and transported Partners In Health medical staff to Port-au-Prince.
“In the hours immediately following the earthquake, Honeywell Hometown Solutions began work to deliver emergency medical supplies and transport medical staff to Haiti,” said Honeywell Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dave Cote. “The people of Haiti need the world’s help to meet their immediate needs for food, water, and medical care, and to rebuild.”
“We’ve reached out to our more than 120,000 employees globally who have been extremely generous in situations like this in the past,” said Cote. “The company has opened a website to facilitate employee donations and payroll deductions. Honeywell will also continue to support recovery and relief efforts with airlift support from Honeywell Aviation.”
Viterra Inc. said it will donate up to $100,000 to the Canadian Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti in a matching donation program with employees and farm customers. “Our corporate contribution will add to the employee fundraising efforts already underway and to a program developed to include our farm customers and partners who are also looking for ways to help,” said Mayo Schmidt, Viterra president and CEO.
Viterra is accepting donations from farm customers at its grain elevators across Western Canada. Farmers will have the ability to contribute money in the form of a deduction from their cash tickets.
In addition, Viterra’s oat milling business has donated one truckload of rolled oats (48,000 pounds) to Canadian Food for Children, an organization that collects food and distributes it to Haiti, among other countries in need.