SÃO LUIZ DE PARAITINGA - It does not mind if you have known or not the small and charming city of São Luiz do Paraitinga, in the countryside of São Paulo. It is impossible to not be impressed while seeing scenes of the city destruction after the rains of early 2010. Besides the material damage, the place will have to rebuilt your history and your life at all - the colonial houses, narrow streets and even the Carnival traditions, which have always kept alive the traditional marches.

United Way Brasil (UWB), which is working in partnership with Civil Defense and the Military Police, is making a fund-raising campaign called “Reviver Sao Luiz do Paraitinga”. According to IPT (Institute for Technological Research from Sao Paulo), 300 buildings were affected by the flood and a great number of its population, i.e., 11 thousand habitants, had to leave their houses and now they need assistance in food, water, mattresses, hygiene and cleaning products.

In order to assist the victims of this tragedy, the enterprises from +Unidos Group are organizing a fund-raising campaign to be sent to the city. In addition to cash contributions, assistance offered by +Unidos members includes donations of food, water, medicines, articles of hygiene, and some other supplies.

This information below refers to the enterprises already committed in providing assistance to Sao Luiz do Paraitinga .

Alcoa – Is organizing an intern campaign to encourage voluntary donations from employees.

DuPont - Is organizing an intern campaign to encourage voluntary donations from employees, which includes food, clothes, and hygiene products. The donations are being collected at the Alphaville and Guarulhos units. Furthermore, as requested by the major of the city, DuPont has made a commitment to donate a pressure washer, which will help to clean the city.

 FedEx – Collected more than 500 pounds of donations (food, clothes, shoes and hygiene products), at the Police Battalion. The campaign was made within the collaboration of Nalco, Reuters and FedEx.  

HP - Is organizing an intern campaign to encourage voluntary donations from employees. Any donation can be done through the United Way account.

Microsoft – Microsoft Brasil donated food, first aid kit, hygiene and cleaning products with the collaboration of its employees and service providers. The donations were sent with the help of Red Cross of Sao Paulo.

Monsanto – Monsanto’s unit in Sao José dos Campos, in the city of Sao Paulo, coordinated a raising campaign to collect food, water, clothes and cleaning products in order to help the victims of Sao Luís do Paraitinga and the city of Cunha, in the Vale do Paraíba. The donations totaled 2,7 ton.

Procter & Gamble – Collected hygiene products.

Even after overcoming the emergency phase, the inhabitants from Sao Luiz do Paraitinga also will need aid to rebuild their homes, retake work activities and in general they also need to bring back the spirit of joy of that community.

Enterprises and individuals can contribute with donations in cash through the United Way Brasil’s account, Unibanco Bank – Agency 1005, Current Account 107581-9 or using the PagPal system, at the UWB website: www.unitedwaybrasil.org.br.

For those who wants to participate with other types of resources (material or services), should contact Patrícia Diniz, Manager of Corporate Relations, by e-mail: patricia@unitedwaybrasil.org.br