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E.ON companies in Hungary donate EUR 25,000 to the international E.ON program for helping children in Haiti
2010.01.29The E.ON Group in Hungary is donating EUR 25,000 (approximately HUF 7 million) to E.ON’s international aid program, whose goal is to improve the present conditions of the children who were injured, orphaned, or separated from their families in the earthquake and to provide them with supplies.
The children in Haiti were badly hit by the powerful earthquake that shook the Caribbean country. Several hundred thousand were injured, separated from their families, or orphaned. E.ON launched an immediate international program to help the children who are now living in the most wretched conditions. E.ON AG, the Düsseldorf-based center of the corporate group, voted this week to make a EUR 500,000 central donation, which will be transferred to the Save the Children Foundation, an international aid organization that is working to help Haitian children. The other members of the E.ON Group also joined the program with additional pledges. The E.ON company in the United States, for example, donated USD 50,000, and E.ON Energy Trading, the company’s international energy trader, collected EUR 30,000 in private donations.The Save the Children Foundation
Save the Children was founded in the wake of World War I to help starving Austrian and German children. The success of the British organization led to the founding of the International Save the Children Alliance in 1920. Building on her international reputation, the organization’s founder, Eglantyne Jebb, became the principal framer of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924 and later, in 1959, by the United Nations.
The American organization, Save the Children USA, was active in helping American children who were starving as a result of the Great Depression in the 1930s, while the Save the Children Europe Group provided aid for the Basque orphans of the Spanish Civil War and the children of Jewish parents who had fallen victim to the Nazis. In the 1950s, Save the Children concentrated primarily on children orphaned in the Korean War and later on children who lost their parents during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Save the Children has been active in Haiti since 1985. The aid organization currently has 180 staff at the site of the disaster, and it has announced that more are on the way.