Saskatoon-Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. on March 15 announced a $1 million donation to support relief efforts in Japan following the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and the tsunami that struck the island nation on March 11. The contribution will go to the Canadian Red Cross Japan Earthquake/Asia-Pacific Tsunami fund. “Like the rest of the world, we have been gripped and deeply moved by the devastation and destruction of this unprecedented natural disaster,” said Bill Doyle, PotashCorp president and CEO. “We value the longstanding friendships and relationships we have forged with customers across Japan and hope that our contribution brings help and hope in the wake of this terrible crisis.” In addition to the $1 million contribution, PotashCorp employees’ donations to relief efforts in Japan will be matched dollar-for-dollar through PotashCorp’s Employee Matching Gift program, the company reported. “We are extremely grateful to PotashCorp for its very generous donation,” said Conrad Sauve, secretary general and CEO of the Canadian Red Cross. “This gift will be used to directly support Red Cross relief and recovery operations underway in affected communities.” Mitsui & Co. Ltd., a firm headquartered in Tokyo that has fertilizer trading operations worldwide, reported on March 14 that it had “not experienced any major damage to its facilities,” including those at its Tohoku office in northeastern Japan. Mitsui said its employees “are all safe and unharmed,” and reported that it was still collecting information regarding its affiliated companies. Mitsui also announced on March 14 a 400-million-yen cash donation, including a 20-million-yen donation declared earlier, to aid emergency relief efforts in the Tohoku region. “We would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims of the earthquake,” Mitsui said. “At the same time we express our earnest wish for the earliest recovery of the region, as well as the safety and well-being of the residents.” PotashCorp’s donation to Japan relief efforts follows significant commitments to earthquake relief efforts in China and Myanmar in 2008, Haiti and Chile in 2010, and most recently in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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