• Vitro employees in a determined effort, through an internal campaign, to gather desperately needed articles come to the aid of the flood ravaged region.
• Colleagues from Vitro in Villahermosa are very grateful for the support.

Overwhelming support, Vitro employees bend over backwards to donate to the collection centers.

Every time a community is in distress and calls for help Vitro employees form teams and enter into action.

That was the scene last November following the recent devastating floods in the state of Tabasco in southeastern Mexico that inflicted severe damage to the region and local inhabitants including Company personnel residing and working in the city of Villahermosa.

In keeping with our sense of social responsibility and, following our company values, Vitro swiftly organized an internal communication campaign to form a common front to come to the rescue of our coworkers in distress.

The employees of Vitro showed, once again, their enormous sense of solidarity by responding to the call for help in an overwhelming show of support by bending over backwards to carry their donations and contributions to the collection centers set up in the different work areas of the company.

Relief, the spirit of solidarity within Vitro carried hope to Tabasco.

“Thanks to the overwhelming support of our employees we collected over 13 tons of food items that were sent to Tabasco to be divided among our fellow workers and their communities affected by the disaster”, commented Homero Navarro, Human Resources Manager for Vitro’s Replacement Automotive Glass Market.

Canned food, bottled water, powdered milk, basic food baskets, clothing, blankets, jackets, medicines and personal hygiene items such as soap, toilet paper, shampoo and tooth paste, among many other articles, were some of the desperately needed supplies donated by Vitro employees.

Due to the massive response, two tractor trailers were needed to transport all of the donations with the first trailer reaching Villahermosa on the 4th of November and the second arriving on the 8th.

 “Our coworkers who reside in Tabasco were surprised and very grateful when the first trailer arrived with help”, recalled Oswaldo Doria from the Human Resources Department of Vitrocar.

Besides the donations in food and clothing, the company also organized, internally, a voluntary monetary collection effort through payroll deductions to compliment the solidarity effort.

Once again in Vitro we have shown that we know how to act in an expedtious and efficient manner when a community calls for help reaffirming our collective sense of social responsibility.

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