BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany, reports that it will contribute EUR 250,000 to the United Nations Central Emergency Fund (CERF) for immediate aid to flood victims in Pakistan. The donation, provided by the BASF Social Foundation, will be used in on-site initiatives such as the World Food Program (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). BASF notes that this way ensures that food, medicine, and relief goods will reliably reach those most in need.
BASF also has started an employee donation campaign at its headquarters in Ludwigshafen. Immediately following the first floods, BASF Pakistan and its employees began relief actions with an initial donation of EUR 40,000. Individual BASF employees also supported the company's internal flood-relief committee, donating food, medicines, and utensils for the relief packets prepared for distribution. BASF established distribution points around company sites in Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, and Sialkot, where relief packets containing basic food items, clothes, bed sheets, clean drinking water, and medicinal aid to combat water-borne diseases are being distributed. Around 1,000 relief packets offering emergency aid to the flood-hit villages and families in the interiors of Punjab and Sindh were dispatched via road.
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