Whirlpool had an impact across the globe in 2019. Two thousand, seven hundred employees in fifteen countries took part in Community Day volunteering at thirty-two non-profits. Whirlpool Corporation and Indiana University celebrated ten years of building Habitat for Humanity homes together. Employees honored Martin Luther King Junior with a day of volunteerism. Habitat for Humanity and Whirlpool Corporation teamed up with Chef Roshara Sanders to lend new homeowners a hand in the kitchen. We announced significantly reduced emissions and improved product efficiency in our corporate
sustainability report. We were proud to support local high-school robotics
teams. Whirlpool EMEA launched a new initiative supporting the reduction of
plastic pollution. A new bus program for employees at our Amana, Iowa plant
helped reduce auto emissions. Whirlpool Brand helps keep kids in school with
clean clothes courtesy of washers and dryers from the Care Counts program.
Our blood drives donated blood for three thousand, five-hundred people.
We donated appliances for every Homes for our Troops build and raised over
eighty thousand dollars with our annual Veteran’s Ball. Consulada da Mulher
empowered and improved the lives of over thirty-two thousand low-income
women in Brazil with matched funding from Whirlpool Foundation. Employee
and retiree giving through United Way was more than four-point-five million
dollars. More than one hundred thousand families over the last twenty years
impacted worldwide through our partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Over
one hundred Whirlpool Foundation Sons and Daughters Scholarship and
Award recipients currently attend collage. Hundreds of volunteers around the
world pitched in for the Kitchen-Aid Day of Caring. Our disaster relief program
made employee-matched donations to people in distress. Maytag brand has
donated more than seven million dollars to Boys and Girls Clubs of America
since the start of their partnership. Whirlpool EMEA helps to fight food
waste with the “Moment Not to be Wasted” campaign. The Women’s Network
organized employees to pack food for Haiti disaster relief. EMEA employees
ran the Milano Relay Marathon supporting CAF Onlus. The Whirlpool
Foundation has awarded more than two-hundred million dollars in grants
since its founding. Whirlpool Corporation employees volunteer an average of
two-hundred and sixty-eight thousand hours each year. We have supported
more than a thousand organizations benefiting over one-point-six million people
around the globe. Whirlpool corporation. Whirlpoolcorp.com.
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