Walmart, Coca-Cola, Nestlé & PepsiCo Come Together to Provide Flint, Mich., Public Schools with Water for Students Through t...
January 26 2016 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Donations will provide up to 6.5 million
bottles of water for approximately 10,000 Flint public school
students
Walmart support also enables the public to make
donations via online platform Good360
Walmart today announced support for the Flint, Mich., community
through donations, education and online services. Walmart,
Coca-Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo will collectively donate water to
meet the daily needs of over 10,000 school children for the balance
of the calendar year. That translates to 176 truckloads, or up to
6.5 million bottles of water, to help with relief efforts for those
affected by the water crisis in Flint.
In addition to the water donation, the companies are encouraging
others to support the Flint community by working with Good360,
where nonprofits operating in Flint are listing their needs online.
Walmart and its suppliers will continue to work closely in the
Flint community and are encouraging the public to get involved by
visiting www.good360.org/flint to make donations that will go
directly to local nonprofits serving the community.
Walmart previously helped fund Good360’s disaster recovery
platform through a $1 million grant announced on the 10-year
anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Walmart and Sam’s Club will
continue serving the community through its stores and clubs, where
associates in pharmacies can share basic health tips and offer
information on resources available in the community.
“The water crisis is personal to us here in Flint. Those
affected include our own associates, customers and their families,”
said Beth Harris, store manager at Walmart, Flint, Mich. "Our
associates are proud to be a part of the effort to help our friends
and neighbors.”
“At Walmart, we take pride in using our strengths to help
communities like Flint during times of crisis, as we’ve done around
the world in times of need,” said Dan Bartlett, executive vice
president of Corporate Affairs for Walmart. “We’re working to
ensure that the children of Flint, the city’s most vulnerable
citizens, have access to safe water.”
Walmart has already donated 14 trucks of water, or 504,000
bottles, and 1,792 water filters to the Flint community since July
2015. Coca-Cola has donated nearly 78,720 bottles of Dasani to
local food banks and foundations and to approximately 40 associates
living in the affected area. Nestlé Waters North America has
already donated five truckloads, or more than 190,000 bottles, to
Flint community organizations since October 2015.
“We are grateful for Walmart and their suppliers' support during
this crisis,” said Bilal Tawwab, Flint Community Schools
Superintendent. “With their generous support, District students
will have access to clean drinking water, and more importantly, the
ability to focus on their education.”
“PepsiCo believes that access to safe water is a basic human
right,” said Tony West, executive vice president, PepsiCo
Government Affairs. “We are committed to supporting the
communities where we operate, and our action today will
allow Flint school children and their parents to focus on their
education rather than where they can find clean water.”
“Nestlé Waters is proud to team up with Walmart to expand our
ongoing work to provide clean, safe bottled water for Flint
residents,” said Cameron Lorrain, plant manager for the
Michigan-based Ice Mountain® and Nestlé Pure Life® brand
operations. “We will continue to work in partnership with other
companies, local officials and relief organizations to ensure that
families in Flint have access to a steady supply of safe drinking
water.”
“We are committed to supporting Walmart and other groups in
water relief efforts for the Flint community,” said Lori George
Billingsley, vice president of Community Relations, Coca-Cola North
America. “This critical initiative to provide bottled water to the
two Flint school districts builds on our heritage of supporting
disaster relief work around the world. Over the past 19 months, we
have donated bottled water, volunteer hours and supported our
employees in the affected area and will continue to look for ways
to help meet the community’s needs.”
Walmart has a long history of providing aid in times of disaster
by donating emergency supplies, such as food and water, home and
personal products, and by creating ways for associates and
community members to locate and help one another. Over the past 10
years, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have provided more than
$50 million in cash, in addition to in kind support, in response to
events such as typhoons in Mexico and the Philippines, tsunamis in
Asia, floods in the U.K. and Canada, tornadoes in the U.S.,
Africa’s Ebola epidemic and many other tragedies. Walmart and the
Walmart Foundation also invested $7.2 million over the past 10
years to build community resiliency.
About Walmart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world
save money and live better - anytime and anywhere - in retail
stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week, nearly
260 million customers and members visit our nearly 11,600 stores
under 72 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11
countries. With fiscal year 2015 revenue of $485.7 billion, Walmart
employs approximately 2.2 million associates worldwide. Walmart
continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy
and employment opportunity. Additional information about Walmart
can be found by visiting http://corporate.walmart.com, on Facebook
at http://facebook.com/walmart and on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/walmart.
About Philanthropy at Walmart
By using our strengths to help others, Walmart and the Walmart
Foundation create opportunities for people to live better every
day. We have stores in 28 countries, employing more than 2.2
million associates and doing business with thousands of suppliers
who, in turn, employ millions of people. We are helping people live
better by accelerating upward job mobility and economic development
for the retail workforce; addressing hunger and making healthier,
more sustainably-grown food a reality; and building strong
communities where we operate and inspiring our associates to give
back. Whether it is helping to lead the fight against hunger
in the United States with $2 billion in cash and in-kind donations
or supporting Women’s Economic Empowerment through a series of
grants totaling $10 million to the Women in Factories training
program in Bangladesh, China, India and Central America, Walmart
and the Walmart Foundation are not only working to tackle key
social issues, we are also collaborating with others to inspire
solutions for long-lasting systemic change. To learn more about
Walmart’s giving, visit www.foundation.walmart.com.
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