Coca-Cola gives $2 million to quake relief efforts

10 Oct, 2005

Neville Isdell, Chairman and CEO of the Coca-Cola Company on Sunday announced that the Coca-Cola Company and the Coca-Cola Foundation have pledged two million dollars for the earthquake relief effort underway in Pakistan.
Of this one million dollars are being given into the President's Relief Fund for quake victims and one million dollars will go to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said a press release issued here on Sunday.
In addition, to help address the vital need for clean drinking water, the Coca-Cola system would be donating water and other beverages to the local agencies co-ordinating the relief efforts.-PR

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