Telekom supports the German Relief Coalition with 100,000 Euro donation and a staff campaign
Bonn, 19th January 2010. Faced with the huge need for aid, the member organisations of Aktion Deutschland Hilft (the German Relief Coalition) are reinforcing their German teams. It is in this context that the Johanniter are to send out a 13-strong medical team from Frankfurt, while HELP is dispatching a five-strong team consisting of three doctors and two nurses. All of the eleven organisational partners currently at work are continuing to distribute aid, with the supply structures having been set up by the United Nations and the USA.
Deutsche Telekom is supporting the German Relief Coalition with an immediate and unbureaucratic donation of 100,000 Euros. In addition to this, the company has also begun a campaign to collect donations from its staff, and intends to double each individual donation that its employees make to the Relief Coalition. "We're very pleased about this generous support because our member organisations want to continue to work in Haiti after the emergency aid has been provided", explains Manuela Ro=DFbach, Managing Director of the German Relief Coalition.
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