€1 million for earthquake victims donated by MAN
MAN Truck & Bus is donating one million euros as emergency aid for the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. In addition, the Volkswagen Group is also donating one million euros on behalf of its brands for emergency aid in the affected countries.
Alexander Vlaskamp, CEO of MAN, said that “MAN has been closely associated with Turkey for many decades through its Ankara site. When it was founded in the 1960s, the plant in Ankara was our first production site outside Germany. The relations are correspondingly close. In view of this catastrophe, it is clear that we will help quickly and unbureaucratically.”
The company’s relief efforts include sending money directly towards material goods and their transport with buses, trucks and vans; providing five fire engines to be used in the earthquake zone; launching a collection campaign for donations in kind; collecting cash donations by employees to be handed over to an aid organisation; transporting relief supplies with a bus and an MAN TGE; and setting up a central appeal for donations throughout MAN sites and service companies.
Aside from these active initiatives, MAN has demonstrated its compassion towards those affected by taking hundreds of relatives of their employees out of the disaster region to Ankara, providing necessary winter clothing, blankets, shoes, hygiene articles, food and water to those who need it most.
