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Coca-Cola Co Provides Additional Relief To Disaster-Stricken Communities In Latin America And Caribbean

ATLANTA -- Coca-Cola Co., its Mexico and Latin Center business units, and its philanthropic arm, the Coca-Cola Foundatio n, pledged additional financial support to communities recovering from recent natural disasters across Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean islands. With the addition of the new pledges of support, the Coca-Cola system has contributed $6.4 million to support disaster relief and recovery efforts across the hardest hit areas over the past month. The new pledges include a $1 millio...

September 27, 2017

ATLANTA -- Coca-Cola Co., its Mexico and Latin Center business units, and its philanthropic arm, the Coca-Cola Foundation, pledged additional financial support to communities recovering from recent natural disasters across Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean islands. 

With the addition of the new pledges of support, the Coca-Cola system has contributed $6.4 million to support disaster relief and recovery efforts across the hardest hit areas over the past month.

The new pledges include a $1 million grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation to the Mexican Red Cross to support relief efforts in communities impacted by recent earthquakes in Mexico. The foundation has also pledged a $1 million grant to the Salvation Army to help provide immediate resources in areas impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria across the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Additionally, Coca-Cola de Mexico has pledged $2 million to support reconstruction in Mexico once immediate disaster relief efforts are complete. And Coca-Cola's Latin Center business unit has pledge $300,000 to support reconstruction in St Kitts, Turks and Caicos and Barbuda.