UPS provides transportation of Ebola aid

UPS has recently announced its involvement in helping provide transportation of support and commitments totalling a worth of $400,000 in gifts-in-kind (GIK) for the urgent relief in aiding the outbreak of the deadly virus, Ebola which has currently claimed the lives of over 1,500 people in West Africa.

UPS, and The UPS Foundation, have responded to the World Health Organisation's plea for help, with the parcel delivery company offering its transport services at no cost to relief agencies.

UPS is to expedite the transport of 10 pallets of supplied to New York's JFK Airport to be placed onto a humanitarian flight. It has been confirmed an additional $175,000 GIK is to follow via sea freight to the affected area.

UPS has sponsored a charter flight for UNICEF of 55 metric
tones of dry chlorine disinfectant

The US parcel delivery company has also sponsored a Humanitarian Relief charter flight on behalf of UNICEF from Belgium. The aircraft is due to carry 55 metric tones of HTH dry chlorine disinfectant in assist in hygiene activities at Ebola treatment centres in Liberia where more than 40% of deaths due to the virus have occurred.

UPS has a history of working alongside disaster relief organisations to help deliver critical, life-saving aid to people and communities in need around the world. Last year saw the parcel delivery company provide $7.5million in humanitarian relief across 46 countries worldwide.

UNICEF and UPS call for help to save Sahel children’s lives

UNICEF and the international courier, UPS, have called for emergency actions to help an estimated 15 million people who are currently affected by an extreme drought and deadly malnutrition in the Sahel region. On Monday morning, a UPS plane took off from Cologne airport carrying 102,000 pounds of much needed UNICEF relief supplies.

U.S. Fund for UNICEF President and CEO Caryl Stern explained that

“UPS understands that during humanitarian emergencies, the need to move supplies quickly is essential and can mean the difference between life and death. We are extremely grateful that UPS has once again donated its expertise and services, this time to help UNICEF deliver lifesaving supplies to the one million children at risk in the Sahel region, and for their on-going support in times of emergency.”

UNICEF are particularly concerned about the health and wellbeing of children and women across the eight affected countries in the Sahel region including Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, northern Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal.

Humanitarian action is desperately needed! 

In fact, UNICEF need more than $60 million in order to supply further medical, nutritional, hygienic and educational supplies. 

If you would like to support this cause and help save lives in the Sahel region, you can make a tax-deductible donation to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF via unicefa.org/sahel, reference: 1-800-FOR-KIDS.

Source: UPS, UNICEF