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The information on this page was audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers on February 15, 2008.

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Accepting social responsibility

Our partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) forms a cornerstone of our socio-political commitment. We have enlarged our disaster relief organisation, which now comprises three well-qualified teams in Singapore, Miami and Dubai. These disaster response teams cover the Asia Pacific region, America, the Middle East and Africa – more than 80% of the world’s territory most frequently visited by catastrophe – co-ordinating logistics for incoming aid at local airports in order to help avoid supply bottlenecks. In conjunction with the UNDP, we also improved our disaster mitigation provisions in 2007. Airport managers and employees are learning about pre-disaster planning through the GARD (Get Airports Ready for Disasters) programme.

We are supporting the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the global struggle against infant mortality by providing logistics services and financial aid, and through our employees’ personal engagement. As reported in 2006, we helped UNICEF to distribute about 3.5 million mosquito nets in Kenya as part of Africa’s largest vaccination campaign. We thus contributed to reducing the number of children under the age of five dying from malaria from 34,000 in 2005, according to the World Health Organisation, to 16,000 in 2006. Twelve volunteers from Deutsche Post World Net spent two weeks working for UNICEF in Kenya and taking part in local preventive healthcare programmes. In 2008, we are extending the international reach of our co-operation with UNICEF to include Asia and South America.

In the year under review, our social responsibility found further expression in more than 250 regional and local initiatives. We transported and distributed aid, for example, following the extremely cold spell in Peru, and supported orphans in Angola. We also used Fair Trade products as giveaways, and sponsored school and cultural projects in Bonn, the home of our corporate headquarters.

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