In commemoration of World Humanitarian Day, Avianca and its industry units Avianca Cargo, LifeMiles and Deprisa, spotlight the event executed in consequence of the work with foundations and partner organizations in the design, with which it has been imaginable to increase causes targeted on three main areas: emergency response, successfully being and transportation of volunteers.
All the design by design of 2024, this strengthen has integrated the transportation of over 100 hundreds humanitarian cargo in countries equivalent to Brazil and Colombia, the mobilisation of 260 volunteer doctors assisting in clinical brigades in rural areas and benefiting extra than 600 households by design of meals deliveries.
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In step with the floods that affected Rio Grande enact Sul in Brazil, Avianca Cargo and GOL partnered to transport 50 hundreds humanitarian lend a hand from Campinas World Airport (VCP) to Porto Alegre Canoas Airport (QNS) to increase households suffering from this emergency at the stop of April.
Relating to Colombia, one day of the emergency led to by fires in Bogotá between January and February, Avianca delivered 138 kilograms of humanitarian lend a hand, including non-perishable meals, blankets, and face masks, to ABACO, which benefited the inhabitants straight affected in the eastern hills of the city.
In step with the above, in collaboration with Airlink, the company facilitated the transportation of 462 kg of very crucial chemotherapy medications, destined for 900 sufferers in humanitarian programs at the Faithful Samaritan Clinic in La Romana, Dominican Republic.
Avianca has a profitable model of fashion partnerships by design of which it works to continually increase existing agreements with key organizations, producing a predominant social affect in inclined communities. This effort has enabled joint work aligned with the company’s industry model, technique and vision, applying the most sharp practices in the airline industry.
Thanks to the Banco de Millas of LifeMiles and in collaboration with TECHO World, the airline mobilized a personnel of 12 volunteers between January and February to conduct residence building projects as piece of the response to wildfires in Chile, benefiting households, including folks with cognitive and mobility disabilities.
Within the same style, Avianca collaborates with allies such because the Colombian Civil Air Patrol (Patrulla Aérea Civil Colombiana), Alas para la Gente, and Fundación Operación Sonrisa to raise clinical brigades to rural areas in Colombia. These efforts bear mobilized 250 volunteer doctors who bear handled over 2,000 folks. The brigades from the first two allies offer current sanatorium treatment to inclined communities, migrants, pregnant ladies, the aged, and Indigenous populations, whereas Fundación Operación Sonrisa specializes in treating youth with cleft lip and palate.
“We are convinced that our aircraft, past being a manner of transportation, are transformative parts that generate style for the income of the communities and regions the build we characteristic. That’s why on World Humanitarian Day, we reaffirm our commitment to invent a predominant contribution in conditions of crisis and to increase the resilience of the most inclined populations. By design of collaboration with native and world organizations, we are going to gain a design to continue to work to offer immediate and efficient solutions that invent a inequity in the lives of hundreds of folks,” said Felipe Gómez, Avianca’s Director of Institutional Relatives and Sustainability.
