HERTFORDSHIRE, England
and PITTSBURGH and SAN JUAN, Puerto
Rico, March 7, 2019
/PRNewswire/ -- A small crowd of SBP staff, AmeriCorps members,
Puerto Rico Central Office of Recovery and Reconstruction's
Omar J. Marrero, Esq and volunteers
from global pharmaceutical company Mylan (NASDAQ: MYL) gathered in
a quiet backyard in Villa Palmeras to celebrate the homecoming of
Hurricane Maria survivor Ms. Sunchy. It had been more than a year
since the storm caused catastrophic damage to Sunchy's home,
forcing her and her three grandchildren to relocate until repairs
were made. While Sunchy and her family's recovery may be over, SBP
is rebuilding for many other Puerto Rican families thanks to a
major gift from the Mylan Charitable Foundation.
"Mylan has a long-established commitment to the people of
Puerto Rico, having run operations
on the island for more than 30 years," said Mylan CEO Heather Bresch. "We are proud to partner with
SBP in bringing hope to people like Ms. Sunchy and her
grandchildren. We know the long-term impact disasters like
Hurricane Maria have on affected communities and understand that
rebuilding and healing takes time. There remains a need to do more
and teaming up with SBP gives us the necessary resources to impact
a much larger number of residents, so they can safely return to
their homes. For more than 60 years, giving back has been a core
value at Mylan as we strive to strengthen the communities where we
live and work."
As part of the welcome home ceremony, the Mylan Charitable
Foundation (MCF) pledged $1 million
to rebuild communities in Puerto
Rico in partnership with SBP. The MCF is an independent
501(c)(3) organization, providing financial support to help meet
community education, social services and health needs, among other
areas. This donation directly funds the rebuild and repair of at
least 100 homes, adding to SBP's extensive recovery efforts since
Hurricane Maria.
"We are grateful for the Mylan Charitable Foundation's support
in establishing a long-term recovery operation here in Puerto Rico," said SBP Co-Founder and CEO
Zack Rosenburg. "This partnership
has enabled SBP to help establish on-the-ground recovery operations
and provide a predictable path home for disaster-impacted families
in several communities across the island."
With Mylan's hands-on support and MCF's financial contribution,
SBP has been able to scale its home rebuilding initiatives in areas
like Loiza, San Juan, and Yabucoa.
SBP has already welcomed home 16 families while working towards its
goal of rebuilding and repairing 100 homes in the first year.
Following Hurricane Maria, SBP deployed a total of 22 AmeriCorps
members and staff to provide immediate relief, mold remediation
services and home repairs—spanning five deployments from
October 2017 through July 2018, before establishing a long-term
recovery operation on the island.
"My colleagues and I know firsthand how devasting the hurricane
was and the disruption it caused," said Mylan's Frank Rodriguez, Head of Site Operations in
Puerto Rico. "At Mylan, we talk
about doing what's right, not what's easy. And right now, that
means working with SBP to continue making progress to rebuild
Puerto Rico."
SBP and Mylan share common passions of fueling community and
building purpose in the face of adversity. In 2016, Mylan and the
MCF contributed $1 million to rebuild
communities in West Virginia
impacted by devastating floods, spearheading a project called
Homes for West Virginia. Led by
SBP and local stakeholders, Homes for West Virginia created a new 40-home
neighborhood and community park in White
Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Mylan and its
employees also contributed to SBP's relief efforts in Texas following Hurricane Harvey.
About SBP
SBP's mission is to shrink time between
disaster and recovery. Since its founding in 2006 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana following the
devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, SBP has rebuilt homes for
more than 1,660 families with the help of 180,000 volunteers in
New Orleans; Joplin, MO; Staten
Island, NY; Rockaway, NY; Monmouth and Ocean Counties, NJ;
San Marcos, TX; Columbia, SC; White
Sulphur Springs, WV; Baton Rouge, LA; Houston, TX; Puerto
Rico; Wilmington, NC; and
Bay County, FL. To learn more,
visit SBPUSA.org and like/follow on Facebook & Twitter
@SBPUSA.
About Mylan
Mylan is a global pharmaceutical company
committed to setting new standards in healthcare. Working together
around the world to provide 7 billion people access to high quality
medicine, we innovate to satisfy unmet needs; make reliability and
service excellence a habit; do what's right, not what's easy; and
impact the future through passionate global leadership. We offer a
growing portfolio of more than 7,500 marketed products around the
world, including antiretroviral therapies on which more than 40% of
people being treated for HIV/AIDS globally depend. We market our
products in more than 165 countries and territories. We are one of
the world's largest producers of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
Every member of our more than 35,000-strong workforce is dedicated
to creating better health for a better world, one person at a time.
Learn more at Mylan.com. We routinely post information that may be
important to investors on our website at investor.mylan.com.
About Mylan Charitable Foundation
The Mylan Charitable
Foundation was established in the U.S. in 2002. It operates
independent of Mylan's business operations and supports efforts to
enhance the quality of life and meet unmet needs in and around the
communities where Mylan operates, primarily working with
child-related issues in the areas of education, social services and
health, by encouraging self-sustaining and ongoing positive change.
Over the past 16 years the foundation has made grants totaling more
than $12 million to more than 125
nonprofit organizations.
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2017 – Mylan Provides Support for U.S. Disaster-Relief
Efforts
Dec. 20, 2017 – Life After Hurricane
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