FedEx, TELMEX and Mexico's Peruvian Embassy Support Peru Earthquake Victims
México D.F. August 27, 2007.-FedEx Express, the world’s largest express transportation and global logistics solutions provider, is providing support to the victims of Peru’s August 15 earthquake in partnership with Telmex and Mexico’s Peruvian Embassy.
In support of the Peruvian victims, Telmex and the embassy are providing comforters, mattresses, tents, generators and packing boxes, along with tools and food supplies, via a flight donated by FedEx. The supplies, which totaled 77 tons, will be given to Peru’s Asociación Civil Caminando Juntos (an NGO) and to the National Civil Defense Institute (INDECI) for distribution among victims.
Thanks to the efforts of individuals from all three entities, these provisions were shipped by FedEx aboard an MD-11 aircraft from the company’s Express fleet, which left the state of Mexico’s Toluca airport during the early hours of Monday, August 27.
FedEx is recognized as one of the most admired brands in the world, in part because of its commitment to helping neighbors in need. The company has a long history of support for the communities it serves, dedicating resources, both operational and financial, to improving the quality of life for individuals of limited resources.
In recent years, FedEx has donated the company’s aircraft as well as the time of pilots and employees to help hurricane victims in Mexico and Guatemala. FedEx also works in partnership with the Orbis “flying hospital,” donating pilots and maintenance personnel to fly ocular surgery equipment to help thousands of individuals in Latin America improve or recuperate their eyesight. FedEx also works with the Starkey Hearing Foundation, offering aircraft, pilots and volunteers to donate hearing aids to individuals in Colombia and the Dominican Republic.
FedEx Express Latin America & Caribbean Division services more than 50 countries and territories throughout Latin America and the Caribbean and employs more than 3,400 people committed to total customer satisfaction each business day.
