Lafarge Egypt, a subsidiary of LafargeHolcim Group, has announced repairing 460 ventilator devices in public hospitals nationwide and providing 2,000 food boxes to support daily workers in Qalyubia Governorate, Invest-Gate reports.

The company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are rolled out in collaboration with the Egyptian Cure Bank and the Egyptian Food Bank, according to a May 13 statement.

“In this unsettling time, our first and foremost priority remains the health and safety of our employees, customers, service partners, and the communities we form a part of. We want to ensure that we are complying with all the government’s directives to help stop the spread of the virus, ease the suffering, and bring about an end to it as quickly as possible,” said CEO of Lafarge Egypt Solomon Baumgartner Aviles.

Moez El Shohdi, president of the Food Banking Regional Network and CEO of the Egyptian Cure Bank, noted, “Throughout the past decade, the Egyptian Food Bank got accustomed to Lafarge Egypt’s unceasing humanitarian contribution, where a strategic partnership strongly bonded both entities, in 2010, collaborating to extend a helping hand to the underprivileged students with proper nutritional diets.”

“Today, we are leveraging on what we have started long ago by supporting irregular daily workers through the Egyptian Food Bank, while greatly contributing in repairing medical ventilators in the state’s hospitals through the Egyptian Cure Bank, noting to further collaboration to subsidize the financially embarrassed classes in Egypt, diligently investing in their well-being and welfare,” El Shohdi added.