Stamford, CT—To
thank Fujifilm North America Companies and their employees, officials from
Stamford, CT-based AmeriCares recently visited the Fujifilm offices in
Valhalla, NY to present a special appreciation award for Fujifilm’s
contributions to AmeriCares Japan
earthquake and tsunami relief efforts.
“AmeriCares
is grateful to Fujifilm for its compassion and generosity in helping the people
of Japan recover from this devastating tragedy,” said AmeriCares Vice President
of Institutional Relations Diana Maguire.
“Thanks to great supporters like Fujifilm, AmeriCares has the resources
to assist the long-term recovery efforts and help restore health and hope for
countless survivors.”
Fujifilm
North America Companies made a total donation of $227,000 to AmeriCares Japan
earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. Fujifilm
North America Companies donated $100,000 and $127,000 came from individual
employee contributions.
“I
could not have imagined that over the course of just three short weeks,
employees of our North American companies would donate over $125,000 of their
hard-earned money to help people in a country so far away,” Ray Hosoda, president,
HLUS and president & CEO, FNAC said during the award presentation ceremony
in April. “Each day when I received the updated employee contribution report, I
kept thinking, ‘How can this be possible?’
I have spent over ten years in this country, and what I have come to
learn is that the people in the U.S. will always find a way to help those
people who are less fortunate.”
AmeriCares
is delivering critically needed aid to hospitals and evacuation centers in
Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster. Our aid includes medicines and medical
supplies for hospitals and medical teams treating survivors, as well as
personal hygiene products for the thousands of families left homeless. Going forward, AmeriCares plans to focus its
relief work on restoration and expansion of health care services; elder care
and care for the disabled; mental health and social support; protection of
orphans and vulnerable children; and aid for evacuees.
AmeriCares
has provided medical relief and humanitarian assistance to millions affected by
natural disasters and man-made crises around the world for nearly 30 years
including the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, Hurricane Katrina in the United
States and the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. AmeriCares emergency response
work often lasts years beyond the initial disaster as we rebuild hospitals and
health clinics and restore health services.
