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...workers based at the plant. The company responded quickly. A day after the disaster, a Lafarge team based in Indonesia flew search, rescue and medical personnel to Banda Aceh to hunt for the missing and care for survivors. The team brought 450 employees and their kin to emergency relief centers and hired trucks and planes to ship food, water and medicine to the area. The Paris headquarters donated €767,000 to affected countries, and continues to collect contributions from its 75,000 employees around the world. It will soon dispatch a team to plan the rebuilding...
...feel connected to these countries in which we have been active for decades," says ThyssenKrupp CEO Ekkehard Schulz. British American Tobacco's Sri Lankan division, Ceylon Tobacco Company, has pledged to rebuild a destroyed village, too. British American Tobacco plans to announce a substantial cash contribution to the relief drive this week. Companies whose products or services are desperately needed in affected countries - from drugmakers to utility companies - have come forward with in-kind contributions. French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis' CEO Jean-François Dehecq personally made one such delivery. He and French Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy accompanied...
...sufficient funds for its programs in the area and encouraged donors to give to the organization’s general fund for operations elsewhere in the world. The Red Cross has received more than $100 million in pledges for the disaster but has committed just $30 million to the relief effort...
Several organizations at Harvard have launched efforts to raise funds for the relief effort. The fraternity Sigma Chi is promoting a dinner at Uno’s in the Square tonight where 20 percent of diners’ checks will be donated to the Red Cross. A newly-formed group, the Harvard College Tsunami Relief Effort, has begun soliciting donations...
...billion in aid have been pledged by nations around the world to help victims, with private charity expected to be in the billions as well. On the national level, two respected leaders, former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, are using their national influence to lead the relief effort. Even in the Harvard community, groups of concerned Harvard students have been spending winter break and reading period doing everything they can to help...