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Gildan donates to humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti

The funds will be distributed equally between two organizations – UNICEF and Americares, as each focuses its efforts on different areas of intervention.

28th October 2016

Knitting Industry
 |  Montreal

Knitted Outerwear, Sports/​Activewear

The funds will be distributed equally between two organizations – UNICEF and Americares, as each focuses its efforts on different areas of intervention. Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti ear as a category four hurricane, resulting in extensive flooding and mudslides, damage to roads and infrastructure, and electricity and water shortages.

“Fortunately, none of our Gildan employees or the employees at our contractors’ facilities in the Port-au-Prince area were directly impacted by the storm,” said Freddy Barrantes, Gildan Country Manager, Caribbean Bassin. “Nevertheless, having had a presence in Haiti for more than 15 years, we wanted to assist in meeting the needs of the affected communities.”

Humanitarian relief efforts

UNICEF’s current relief efforts are focused on providing people access to clean water, hygiene and sanitation, getting children back to school, and restoring basic health and nutrition services for women and children.

Americares’ emergency response teams are providing medicine and medical supplies to clinics and hospitals, expanding mobile medical care in areas where health facilities are damaged or overwhelmed, and providing water purification supplies and other cholera prevention items to devastated communities, representing over 1.4 million people.

Gildan has also donated food and water kits to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and continues to monitor the situation in the affected areas.

Gildan

Gildan is a leading manufacturer and marketer of quality branded basic family apparel, including T-shirts, fleece, sport shirts, underwear, socks, hosiery, and shapewear. The company sells its products under a diversified portfolio of company-owned brands, including the Gildan, Gold Toe, Anvil, Comfort Colors, Alstyle, Secret, Silks, Kushyfoot, Secret Silky, Peds, MediPeds and Therapy Plus brands.

The company sells its products through two primary channels of distribution, namely printwear and retail markets. It distributes its products in printwear markets in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Gildan owns and operates vertically-integrated, large-scale manufacturing facilities, which are primarily located in Central America, the Caribbean Basin, North America and Bangladesh.

www.gildan.com

 

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