P&G Announces Three Commitments for 2008 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
September 25 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
CINCINNATI, Sept. 25, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The Procter & Gamble
Company (NYSE:PG) announced a multi-million dollar program to save
and change the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and
mothers across the globe. At the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative
(CGI) Annual Meeting in New York City, the Company unveiled a $55
million investment in three commitments focused on saving an
estimated 5,000 lives by providing safe drinking water, eliminating
maternal and neonatal tetanus, and helping one million vulnerable
girls in Africa remain in school. (Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080925/CLTH027 ) The three
commitments are Children's Safe Drinking Water program (CSDW),
Pampers Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Global Campaign and Always
and Tampax Protecting Futures Program. The Children's Safe Drinking
Water program has already provided one billion liters of safe
drinking water to children and their families using P&G's PUR
water purification technology. PUR is provided in small sachets
that can each purify 10 liters of water. Today, P&G announced
an $11 million plan to provide an additional one billion liters of
safe drinking water using PUR sachets that will prevent 40 million
days of diarrhea and save an estimated 5,000 lives. In addition,
the company will spend $7 million on reaching a 1/3 billion
households in developed countries to raise both awareness and
generate a further $11 million in donations for the campaign. The
company is working closely with CARE, World Vision, PSI,
Americares, CNN, Caring Kids TV/PBS, Scholastic, CNN and others to
further raise awareness and funding. P&G is building a new PUR
manufacturing facility to provide up to 1 billion additional liters
per year. More details on this program can be found on its new
website, http://www.csdw.org/. The Pampers Maternal and Neonatal
Tetanus Global Campaign is a $22 million, three year global
partnership between Pampers and UNICEF to help eliminate maternal
and neonatal tetanus in 47 remaining countries by 2012. It will
provide 200 million doses of tetanus vaccine in addition to one
billion media impressions to support the need for maternal and
neonatal tetanus vaccination. The Always and Tampax Protecting
Futures Program is a four year, up to $15 million global
partnership between Always and Tampax, CARE, and Save the Children
dedicated to helping vulnerable girls in Africa stay in school and
reach their full potential. It will provide one million girls with
puberty education and sanitary pads to help them manage their
period while in school as well as installing 500 sanitary
facilities. Currently some girls living in sub-Saharan Africa can
miss up to four days of school each month because they lack access
to reliable and hygienic sanitary protection and other resources to
manage their periods. "P&G is proud to make three commitments
at the Clinton Global Initiative to provide safe drinking water,
protect mothers and babies from neonatal tetanus, and help keep
girls in school in the developing world. We thank President Clinton
and CGI for inspiring us to take action and our dozens of partners
that turn our goals and resources into hundreds of thousands of
lives impacted and saved," said Susan Arnold, President-Global
Business Units. About Procter & Gamble Three billion times a
day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. The
company has one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality,
leadership brands, including Pampers(R), Tide(R), Ariel(R),
Always(R), Whisper(R), Pantene(R), Mach3(R), Bounty(R), Dawn(R),
Gain(R), Pringles(R), Folgers(R), Charmin(R), Downy(R), Lenor(R),
Iams(R), Crest(R), Oral-B(R), Actonel(R), Duracell(R), Olay(R),
Head & Shoulders(R), Wella(R), Gillette(R), Braun(R) and
Fusion(R). The P&G community includes approximately 138,000
employees working in over 80 countries worldwide. Please visit
http://www.pg.com/ for the latest news and in-depth information
about P&G and its brands.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080925/CLTH027
http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: The Procter & Gamble
Company CONTACT: Rotha Penn, +1-513-983-3939, , Dr. Greg Allgood,
+1-513-602-7719, , both of Procter & Gamble Company Web site:
http://www.pg.com/ http://www.csdw.org/
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