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Deutsche Post has entered into a global partnership with the United Nations’ Children’s Fund (Unicef) to reduce child mortality.
The Berlin-based postal and logistics multinational will offer the use of its services, expertise and the time of some of its 500,000 employees – who make up one of the biggest corporate workforces in the world. It will also contribute financially, with an as-yet unspecified amount earmarked for anti-malarial projects.
In addition, the company will work with Unicef, which seeks to raise the living conditions of children and protect their human rights, to examine how services can be improved, for example in the distribution of temperature-sensitive vaccines.
As a first step the initiative will focus on Kenya, where child mortality has increased significantly over the past few years and one child in eight dies before its fifth birthday. One of the group’s subsidiaries, DHL, will help distribute 3.5 million mosquito nets to children there at risk of contracting malaria. Employee volunteers will also improve primary health care facilities and provide families with basic healthcare information.
In a pilot project in the Kenyan district of Kwale, DHL donated more than $280,000 (£140,000) to buy 50,000 mosquito nets, equip health centres with cooling boxes to transport medicine, and provide motorcycles to reach people living in rural areas.
The link with Unicef deepens Deutsche Post’s involvement with the UN. The two organizations first began working together two years ago, mainly on disaster relief.
The Berlin-based postal and logistics multinational will offer the use of its services, expertise and the time of some of its 500,000 employees – who make up one of the biggest corporate workforces in the world. It will also contribute financially, with an as-yet unspecified amount earmarked for anti-malarial projects.
In addition, the company will work with Unicef, which seeks to raise the living conditions of children and protect their human rights, to examine how services can be improved, for example in the distribution of temperature-sensitive vaccines.
As a first step the initiative will focus on Kenya, where child mortality has increased significantly over the past few years and one child in eight dies before its fifth birthday. One of the group’s subsidiaries, DHL, will help distribute 3.5 million mosquito nets to children there at risk of contracting malaria. Employee volunteers will also improve primary health care facilities and provide families with basic healthcare information.
In a pilot project in the Kenyan district of Kwale, DHL donated more than $280,000 (£140,000) to buy 50,000 mosquito nets, equip health centres with cooling boxes to transport medicine, and provide motorcycles to reach people living in rural areas.
The link with Unicef deepens Deutsche Post’s involvement with the UN. The two organizations first began working together two years ago, mainly on disaster relief.
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