Launch of one online platform to enable Janssen employees to make a donation. Donations will go to Save the Children to respond quickly to the refugee crisis. StIt will be possible to donate "food for a day" ad un bambino fuggito dalla guerra e dalla povertà estrema, costretto a dormire in un campo profughi o all’aperto.
To address this serious situation, Janssen with Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust (Trust) started one series of health and humanitarian interventions to alleviate the plight of refugees and to help them find safety and relief from suffering.
In support of this global approach to the crisis, the Trust is collaborating, together with J&J's global partner Save the Children, to launch a online platform to enable Janssen employees, a pharmaceutical company of the Johnson & Johnson Group, to make a donation. Donations will go to Save the Children to respond quickly to the refugee crisis.
“Siamo orgogliosi di poter fornire il nostro contributo alla grave situazione dei rifugiati che negli ultimi mesi sta assumendo dimensioni sempre più preoccupanti – ha affermato Massimo Scaccabarozzi, President and CEO of Janssen Italia – Therefore it is essential to give a concrete and rapid response to the humanitarian crisis, starting right from our company. I hope that, also thanks to our donations, Save the Children will be able to alleviate the suffering of these people who have already suffered enough in their country of origin".
The Johnson & Johnson Group companies and the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust (Trust) have already started multiple health interventions in support of the plight of Syrian refugees over the past few years, including:
• May 2014: Donation of trauma equipment all’Associazione DePuy Synthes Middle East in favore del progetto cure chirurgico – ricostruttive di Medici Senza Frontiere svolto nel campo profughi di Zaatari in Giordania, per un valore complessivo di 1.4 miliardi di dollari;
• 2013: The Trust rescheduled its grants ($137,000) to the Aga Khan Foundation's (AKF) humanitarian response in Syria, to support for the health of babies and children and for communicable disease prevention programs in the Salamieh district of Syria.
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