After years of consistent social commitment in the company's immediate surroundings, the mid-size printing ink manufacturer Doneck Euroflex, which is based in Grevenmacher and specialises in food packaging, has decided to take new roads. Together with CARE, the company has developed a concept that is tailor made for its strategy and with which management and employees can also show their solidarity on the international stage, too.
Specifically, the Doneck Network is supporting two maternity clinics in Niger this year. Niger is the world's poorest country and has at the same time the highest rate of mortality of mothers and children during or shortly after birth. Statistically, one in seven mothers dies while giving birth. The two partners are tackling this problem in the first year of their cooperation. Thanks to a generous donation, the maternity clinics will be connected to a clean water supply so that the midwives no longer have to carry the water 400 or 1000 metres respectively from the well to the clinics themselves. In this way the hygiene in the clinics and thus the health of the newborn babies and their mothers will be improved. Day by day, with each new birth, the dramatic mortality rates are being reduced a little more.
The cooperation is initially planned for three years and, apart from the water supply to the clinics, is also dedicated to supporting nutrition centres for children and improved nutrition in primary schools.
photo: Doneck Euroflex Managing Director Arndt Breitbach and CARE President Robert Schadeck following the signing of the contract
