We have a new Alliance: “Cultivando Comunidades” (Nurturing Communities)
- Fundación Dibujando un Mañana and Driscoll’s integrate the Alliance “Cultivando Comunidades” (Nurturing Communities) to mitigate the effects caused by the COVID-19 health contingency in rural communities.
- Collaboration seeks to benefit vulnerable groups in rural areas by donating food packages and medical supplies.
Guadalajara, Jalisco June 11, 2020.- Fundación Dibujando un Mañana, with more than twenty years of experience in linking and building multi-actor networks, joins forces with Driscoll’s in the context of the global health contingency caused by the COVID-19 virus, to contribute to the well-being of rural communities. The initiative “Cultivando Comunidades” (Nurturing Communities) seeks to promote food supply to families in 50 vulnerable communities, as well as to work to protect health professionals in hospitals taking care of COVID-19 patients in rural communities in Jalisco, Michoacán, Puebla and Tlaxcala.
Through this partnership, Driscoll’s will donate $8,500,000 pesos (mp) in food supplies with fruits and vegetables from the Mexican countryside to Food Banks – which in turn will serve to revive the local economy of the country’s rural workers. Likewise, non-perishable products such as rice, flour, preserves, among others, will be delivered seeking to deliver 32,688 nutritional complete packages to approximately 8,172 families in vulnerability or with little resource situations, who need help to face the effects of this heath emergency.
In addition, supplies shall be distributed to protect medical staff, and this means the delivery of 5,000 complete surgical uniforms, 5,000 pairs of nitrile gloves, 5,000 N95 masks, more than 18 thousand protecting masks and 71 security glasses to protect those who are in the first line of action caring for persons affected by this virus in hospitals in Jalisco, Michoacán, Puebla, Tlaxcala. State of Mexico and Mexico City.
Fundación Dibujando un Mañana’s General Director, Katty Beltrán, stated “we appreciate the trust that Driscoll’s has deposited in the work carried out by Fundación Dibujando un Mañana, so that together we can create better development opportunities in the communities”. In turn, Miguel Ángel Curiel Mendoza, Driscoll’s Operations Director stated that “we appreciate the significant work that Fundación Dibujando un Mañana does to try to provide well-being to some of the most vulnerable social groups in México, and this allows us to visualize, once more, the importance of the social commitment we all have to face the challenges COVID-19 has confronted us with”.
Fundación Dibujando un Mañana and Driscoll´s reiterate their commitment with the development and wellbeing of Mexico’s rural communities.
About Fundación Dibujando un Mañana
Fundación Dibujando Un Mañana with more than twenty years of experience in the relationship and creation of multi-actor work networks, and also in the consulting of social investments in Mexico, has as an objective to contribute to improve the quality of life for girls, boys and adolescents in vulnerable situations by strengthening the organizations that serve them, so that they are more efficient and sustainable.
Go to: www.dibujando.org.mx for more information
About Driscoll’s
Driscoll’s is a leading worldwide company in the berries market, and the following are some of them, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and fresh blueberries. With more than 100 years of agricultural legacy and heritage and the collaboration with hundreds of independent producers, Driscoll’s proves its passion for the production of healthy good and with wonderful flavor berries. Its exclusive varieties are patented by Driscoll’s and its growth and development is the result of years of research that only uses traditional farming methods.
Driscoll’s is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries™www.driscolls.com
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