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Who ever said multi-national corporations were heartless?  Look what’s been going on behind the scenes as businesses from all over the world donate to our city in need:

“* Coca Cola Amatil, which has distributed 300 pallets of water and is delivering another 72,000 bottles of water a day until further notice

* Sanitarium which is distributing breakfast products daily to emergency centres via 4-wheel drives and trailers. Locals are using Sanitarium’s water bore for fresh water.

* Goodman Fielder is baking 40,000 loaves a day for emergency centres and open shops. There are plans to send to Christchurch more than 50 pallets of free, fresh pizzas and pies inaddition to biscuits and cakes. These donations are likely to be distributed through the Salvation Army.

*Hubbards is delivering breakfast cereals to emergency groups

* Mars will donate food, chocolate and petfood

*Unilever is contributing tea, soups and cleaning products and has dispatched trucks to give away iced tea and icecreams

*Frucor is sending water from Auckland and Kaiapoi

*Nestle vans which can serve 200 people an hour ar expected to arrive in Christchurch today to donate product

* Colgate Palmolive has sent thousands of toothbrushes, bacterial soaps, hand wash bottles, hand sanitisers, toothpastes and personal travel packs to emergency centres

* Heinz Watties has distributed canned products and other goods with the help of the Salvation Army

*Cerebos Greggs has sent instant coffee from Dunedin

*SunRice has pledged 4700 packets of rice

*Australia’s National Foods has offered dairy and yoghurt products

*Mainfreight will donate transport for donations

*L’Oreal has offered shampoo and skincare products

*Johnson and Johnson is working with the Red Cross to send in sutures, infection control and skin staplers”

This information was ‘borrowed’ from a stuff article which can be viewed here.

Ha ha!  They’re people after all, and all people feel.  No really, even the seemingly hard-shelled, aloof ones.  In fact those people generally have reasons for that hard shell, but I digress.  It’s impossible for anyone connected to Christchurch not to want to help out in some way.  I love seeing the way countries and big-business step up to give generously when it’s needed most.  Obviously their capacity to offer much needed resources is huge, and while some days they may seem rich and totally absorbed in helping their shareholders get rich, other days something like this comes along and their size suddenly becomes an asset to humanity.  Aint that life for you?   Full of fascinating paradoxes.

Today’s rating: 8/10

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