On World Food Day, JBS announces donation of over 130 tons of protein in 2021, equivalent to 1.3 million meals
20 | 10 | 2021
To commemorate World Food Day celebrated on October 16, JBS, through its social responsibility program Good Deeds Do Good, is announcing the donation of more than 130 tons of protein by the end of 2021, equivalent to 1.3 million meals.
The donations are forwarded to NGOs and third-sector institutions and are focused on assisting socially vulnerable families. In 2021, the institutions benefitted by the company are Ação Cidadania, Amigos do Bem, the Child Fund, Escola de Gastronomia Social, Grupo Sol, Instituto Capim Santo, Gastromotiva and G10 Favelas.
“Through the Good Deeds Do Good Program we have invested R$ 400 million in tackling Covid-19 and its impacts, which includes initiative in public health, scientific research and anti-hunger actions”, says Fernando Meller, program manager. The donations are undertaken in the states of São Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Piauí, Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Norte, Maranhão, Pernambuco, Pará and Paraíba, in addition to the Federal District.
Taking into account the 2020/2021 two-year period, the company will have donated 533 tons of food by the end of the year, equivalent to 5.3 million meals. So far, 483.9 tons of protein have been donated to third-sector institutions, a volume equivalent to 4.83 million meals.
Good Deeds Do Good
Since the onset of the pandemic last year, the JBS program has channeled R$ 400 million to tackling Covid-19 in Brazil, on three different fronts: healthcare, social assistance and science. The Good Deeds Do Good program has already enabled the construction of two permanent hospitals as well as delivering 88 ambulances, 561 respirators, 1,612 multi-parameter monitors, 19,5 million PPE kits, 2,022 clinic and ICU beds, 1,4 million liters of hygiene and cleaning products and 575 food baskets. Also, 15 healthcare units have been refurbished and extended, in addition to support for 39 scientific and technological research initiatives into Covid-19. Over two million people have been assisted by the NGOs comprising the program.
Moreover, JBS has contributed R$ 5 million to the construction of a new vaccine plant at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, and donated 400 cylinders of oxygen to tackle the public health crisis that affected Manaus in early 2021.
In August 2020, the Good Deeds Do Good program donated to the tele-medicine project that has provided medical services to riverine 25 communities on the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractivist Reservation (Resex), in Santarém-PA. With the donation of broadband internet infrastructure and laptop computers to the basic healthcare units(UBS) of São Pedro and Parauá, the local population now has access to medical services without having to travel to the more far-flung regions of the reservation. Around 4,500 inhabitants of the communities at São Pedro and Parauá and neighboring communities have access to the services.
For further information about the Good Deeds Do Good program, go to: jbs.com.br/fazerobemfazbem
Escrito por: Oxigenweb