COVID-19 Relief Fund

In Argentina, cash donations are used to provide three ultrasound machines to hospitals in the City and Province of Buenos Aires for the support of the National Ministry of Health. An estimated 11,200 patients can be treated by each equipment in one year.

In Australia, we are collaborating with Beyond Blue. 

The monetary donations in Bangladesh are used to provide food for the needy through the organization Bidyanondo. This benefits thousands of needy families.

The monetary donations in Bolivia go to Aldeas Infantiles SOS to help provide food, cleaning and digitization supplies for approximately 15,000 children in need.

Siemens Caring Hands e.V. supports the local initiative Salvando Vidas to improve the health system of 16 Amazonian communities and 3 cities in the southeast. In total 19 hospitals received protection material for medical staff, benefiting more than 1.3m people in the region.

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In Canada, the donations are used to support the Canadian Red Cross in providing assistance to medical facilities, setting up emergency hospitals and giving access to relief supplies and food as well as further projects.

In Colombia, the donations will be used to provide food packages for more than 1,300 families in need in order to enable them to stay at home. Furthermore, the money was used for 120 public handwashing stations. The distribution of 5,000 protective masks is in progress, so that people in Colombia can protect themselves from infection.

In Chile, we support the Alfredo Zolezzi Foundation in providing access to clean water to approx. 1,600 people in Puchuncavi by installing Plasma Water Sanitation Systems in schools.

The Centro de Innovación of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile receives donations that will be used to produce around 5,000 optimized face shields.

Diakonie received donations that are used to run dozens of charity programmes for elderly, disabled, ill, socially disadvantaged people all across the country.

Siemens Caring Hands e.V. works together with the organization Techo Ecuador to support poor families without access to basic sanitation. The donations will be used to build five composting toilets and create a suitable infrastructure for hand washing.

Siemens Caring Hands e.V. supports the Berliner Stadtmission by providing Covid-19 tests that ensure the safe care of people without a home in emergency shelters.

Tafel Erlangen distributes 7 tons of food to about 1,700 people in need every week. The TafelMobil, which is supported by Siemens Caring Hands, delivers food to people at home who are no longer able to come to the food bank themselves due to Covid-19.

The donation to Sozialstation Neufahrn will be used to implement a new IT system. The system will enable better and safer care for more than 200 patients and elderly people and thus support the nurses in their demanding work during the pandemic.

Modern digital media have become an indispensable part of children's lives, especially since the Covid-19 crisis. Siemens Caring Hands e.V. therefore supports the "Medienlöwen" project of the German Child Protection League. The media skills training is aimed at children in grades 3 to 7 and teaches them how to use smartphones, tablets and other digital gadgets. 

Siemens Caring Hands e.V. colaborates with the THW foundation to assist the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) with their digital transformation, thus supporting the work of the essential organization in times of crisis. The donation consists of 668 tablets and the provision of apps that can help with order management as well as respiratory protection monitoring.

In Hong Kong (China), donations are made to St. James' Settlement in order to provide more than 1,600 food packs and 2,000 surgical masks for people affected by the Corona pandemic.

In collaboration with the Indian government Siemens supports a combined program tackling healthcare and humanity aspects of the pandemic. Overall, Siemens and its employees in India collected donations totaling 283,000 Euros.

In Italy, donations amounting to 200,000 euros were given to the Istituto Superiore di Sanitá. Thanks to the substantial donations from Siemens Caring Hands e.V., a multimedia crisis room will be set up at the Italian Health Institute in Rome. The aim is to optimize the coordination and control of emergency operations. For this purpose, a corresponding technological infrastructure can now be set up, which will provide Italy with sustainable help in similar crises in the future.

In Mexico, donations are used for the development and performance of the Hospital Conversion Platform in order to support healthcare institutions.

In Pakistan, donations were used for the procurement and distribution of more than 1,000 PPEs to medical institutions in most need in Balochistan and Sindh.

Siemens Caring Hands e.V. provides 3.840 antigen tests to detect infected inhabitants of Amadora Municipality in Portugal. The tests are used to detect Covid infections in 17 elderly homes, 52 schools and 13 health centers to prevent the virus from spreading. 

In Peru, monetary donations go to  Colegio La Alegría en el Señor. Poor and disabled children will benefit from these donations and receive the necessary treatment and education.

In Peru, the monetary donations will also help poor children to access STEM education from home. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools have closed in the country; with this support, children will be able to finish high school with a good level of education.

In Russia, donations are used to support Covid-19 hospitals by providing 44 irradiators-recirculators. The initiative is carried out together with the organizations Izgolek and CAF Russia.

In Latin America, Siemens Caring Hands e.V. supports the Siemens Stiftung in developing digital educational content for teachers and students thus fostering STEM education.

The monetary donations are used to provide a separate modular hospital solution with a 100 bed capacity to the Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in East London. This will help to ease the burden on the hospital and ensure quality healthcare.

In Turkey, Siemens Caring Hands e.V. works with TEV to provide scholarships to 47 children who have lost their parents due to corona, thus ensuring their continued education.

In the US, we have teamed up with Testing for America (TFA) to supply funding and COVID-19 testing technologies to support the safe reopening of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country. The support included direct investments in COVID-19 testing and the supports/protocols to administer the program on campus at Delaware State University as well as 7 additional campuses.

Siemens and Siemens Foundation support community health centers in several cities (e.g. Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles) in providing primary care for the medically underserved and helping the most vulnerable communities.

Siemens Caring Hands e.V works together with the Trussell Trust which supports a network of over 1,200 food bank centres in the UK provide emergency food and support to people and families locked in poverty, and campaigns for change to end the need for food banks in the UK.

The Siemens Caring Hands donation for Yemen went to UNICEF, which provides health facilities with water and sanitation services in order to protect children and families, affected by pandemic and years of conflict within the country. 

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