Domtar Corporation’s Comfort & Care Program & Nonprofit Partner, First Book, Donate Baby Care Packages to More Than 1,500 U...
April 20 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Care packages, donated to local Waco family
charities for distribution, include diapers and baby books for
low-income families
Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) announced that
employee volunteers from the company’s personal care product
manufacturing facility in Waco, TX will be assembling and
delivering more than 1,500 baby care packages today to local
organizations that help support underserved families in the Waco
area. The donated baby care packages will include baby diapers and
children’s books. A Fortune 500 company, Domtar makes a wide
variety of everyday products from sustainable wood fiber, such as
copy paper and diapers. Domtar’s facility in Waco employs nearly
200 people in the local community.
Domtar employees will be delivering the baby care packages today
at:
- 2:00 PM (CST) to the Talitha Koum
Institute (TKI), a charitable organization that provides a sensory
integration brain development program to children from eight weeks
old to Kindergarten, and
- 3:15 PM (CST) to the Waco Diaper Bank,
a local organization that partners with social services agencies to
provide diapers to Waco and McLennan county families in need.
The Domtar Comfort and Care Program has helped alleviate
financial and emotional stress for families in need by donating
hundreds of thousands of diapers to charitable organizations in the
last year alone.
“The Comfort and Care program aligns with our commitment to
champion health, dignity and comfort in our local communities,”
said Brad Goodwin, president of Personal Care North America. “We
believe everyone deserves personal care, and, hopefully, the
diapers included in these baby care packages will help those
families in Waco that need it most.”
The new board books included in the baby care packages were
donated by Domtar through its partnership with First Book. As part
of its Powerful Pages campaign, Domtar has partnered with First
Book, a nonprofit social enterprise that provides books to children
in need, since 2012 to provide more than half a million dollars in
grants to schools and programs in towns that are home to Domtar
facilities. Domtar’s grants provide funding to educators to
purchase books through the First Book Marketplace, a website
available exclusively to First Book programs, and then the school’s
children are able to bring home the new books.
“We’re proud to have provided hundreds of thousands of brand new
books to children from low-income families across North America, in
partnership with First Book,” said Domtar Corporate Responsibility
Manager, Heather Alverson Stowe. “Domtar is committed to promoting
literacy by putting books in the hands of children in need in the
communities in which we operate—it’s a cause that is close to our
hearts and core to our business.”
“Access to books is transformational in the lives of our
children and the educators who serve them,” said Kyle Zimmer, First
Book president and CEO. “Domtar’s work with First Book has opened
up a world of opportunities to children who might not otherwise
have books at home.”
About DomtarDomtar is a leading provider of a wide
variety of fiber-based products including communication, specialty
and packaging papers, market pulp and absorbent hygiene products.
With approximately 10,000 employees serving more than 50 countries
around the world, Domtar is driven by a commitment to turn
sustainable wood fiber into useful products that people rely on
every day. Domtar’s annual sales are approximately $5.1 billion,
and its common stock is traded on the New York and Toronto Stock
Exchanges. Domtar’s principal executive office is in Fort Mill,
South Carolina. To learn more, visit www.domtar.com.
About Domtar Comfort and Care Diaper Assistance
ProgramFounded in 2016 and born of Domtar’s spirit of caring
and commitment to supporting sustainable community development, the
Comfort and Care diaper assistance program helps address diaper
poverty. The program aims to alleviate financial and emotional
stress on families by providing a process for donations to diaper
assistance organizations such as diaper banks and care
facilities.
About First BookFirst Book is a nonprofit social
enterprise that has distributed more than 100 million books and
educational resources to programs and schools serving children from
low-income families throughout the United States and Canada. By
making new, high-quality books available on an ongoing basis, First
Book is transforming the lives of children in need and elevating
the quality of education. For more information, please visit us
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Alverson Stowe, 514-848-5555 x 85979Corporate Responsibility
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