BY: Loop Author 06:00, May 28, 2021 36 reads
Papua New Guinea, 17
th May, 2021 – Today, The Coca-Cola Foundation, the international philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company, announced a grant of PGK350,000 to The Australian Red Cross to provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Red Cross branches and health centres across 13 PNG provinces in an effort to help stem the current surge of COVID-19 cases.
The grant will be used to procure 50,000 items of PPE, including masks and hand sanitizer, to provide protection to over 700 PNG Red Cross staff and volunteers across 13 branches of PNG Red Cross, along with 1,275 community health workers. This will enable PNG Red Cross and health workers to support and deliver COVID-19 public health messaging and information to an additional 30,000 vulnerable community members across PNG.