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Toymaker Lego to donate for vulnerable Afghans

Copenhagen: Foundation created by Toymaker Lego and his parent company said they would donate 100 million Kroner ($ 16 million) to support vulnerable children in Haiti and Afghanistan.
“The humanitarian crisis that occurred in Haiti and Afghanistan was unimaginable and was only intensified by Covid-19 pandemic,” said Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, Chair of the Lego Foundation.
Since May 2021, more than 500,000 people have been transferred in Afghanistan.
As for Haiti, a 14-August hard earthquake followed by a tropical storm “has left half a million Haiti children with limited or no access to shelter, safe water, health care, and nutrition.” “With Covid-19 still (being) a threat that will soon occur in the health and safety of the Haitian population, the loss and damage associated with the latest natural disasters this is only further a terrible situation compound so many children and family,” they said in a shared statement .
Based in Denmark, Lego Foundation and the parent company Kirkbi A / S said that they had partnered with, among others, two UNICEF and UNHCR UN agencies – and education could not wait, global funds to change the submission of education in an emergency.

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