By donating USD 250,000 to TECHO, Deutsche Post DHL is helping build 100 houses for Latin America's neediest.

A partner of the non-profit organization TECHO since 2010, Deutsche Post DHL recently provided a special donation of USD 250,000 to build 100 new houses for families living in poverty stricken areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. With this donation, Deutsche Post DHL becomes one of the organization’s main allies in reaching its 2014 goal of completing the building of 100,000 houses in the 19 countries where TECHO is active with this project.

Money is only one aspect of the support provided by Deutsche Post DHL. Since 2010, over 2,000 volunteers dedicated more than 30,000 hours of their time to help build 400 emergency houses, initiate fundraising campaigns and supporting with transportation of materials in 19 different countries.

“For years now, our employees in the Americas donate their time and talent to help build urgently-needed housing with TECHO and the beneficiary families. With our donation, we want to further support the important work this non-profit organization is doing, and at the same time recognize the efforts of our own people,” said Deutsche Post DHL CEO Frank Appel. “They will continue lending a hand to the poor families in their communities.”

Deutsche Post DHL began its partnership with TECHO in 2010 following the DHL Disaster Response Team (DRT) deployment to flood-struck El Salvador the previous year. The company’s employees acted as volunteers in the construction of provisional housing for the families that had lost everything in the natural disaster.

Emergency housing is only one part of TECHO’s work. By building basic houses in city slums, the non-profit aims to provide families the chance to improve their quality of life. “TECHO” is one of the partner organizations Deutsche Post DHL works with as part of its GoHelp program. At the core of the Group-wide GoHelp program is the strategic disaster management partnership with the United Nations (UN), which has made Deutsche Post DHL an important player in the worldwide humanitarian community.

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