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Inditex has announced that it will donate garments to refugees in Rwanda for humanitarian needs through UNHCR and machines to manufacture masks to the Galician Confederation of Persians with Disabilities (COGAMI), within the framework of the presentation of results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2020 -2021 (between May 1 and July 31), released this September 16.

Inditex will donate

four machines to the

Galician Confederation of People with Disabilities

for the mass manufacture of surgical masks for protection against Covid-19 and which will be sold by the organization to contribute to its social purposes.

It is estimated that the machines, which arrived at Inditex's facilities in A Laracha (A Coruña) in June, will begin production during the winter, once the installation works are completed, in collaboration with Mondragón Assembly.

The machinery will be installed at a COGAMI site located in the Bergondo industrial estate (A Coruña), where

up to 25 jobs

related to this production

will

be

generated

.

These facilities will be fully equipped by Inditex to meet the requirements established by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products in relation to the operation of facilities for the manufacture of health products.

With this objective, COGAMI is going to establish a Special Non-profit Employment Center, whose main objective will be to offer people with disabilities, employment for this production appropriate to their personal characteristics and to facilitate their labor integration in the ordinary job market.

The facilities will have four automated production lines.

These teams, valued at more than one million euros, will have a production capacity of around

eleven million units per month.

The whole project is valued at 2.3 million euros.

The manufacturing lines have been designed and assembled by the Mondragón Assembly cooperative, belonging to the Mondragón Corporation, which with its more than 40 years of experience in manufacturing and assembly line automation, develops high-tech solutions for various sectors, among they the medical sector.

Regarding the first project, framed within the global policy of the refugee aid company, Inditex details that it is going to

donate 750,000 garments of its different brands to the Spanish Committee of the High Commissioner of the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR ) for its distribution in seven camps in Rwanda

where around 149,000 displaced people are sheltering, mostly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.

Through this initiative, which the company develops in collaboration with various suppliers, 139,571 units have been shipped in August;

111,048 will depart before the end of September and the rest, until the donation is completed, will do so before January 31, 2021, fully assuming the transport to the African country.

The retail value of the donated products reaches 13.5 million euros.

Rwanda is one of the main host countries for those displaced by waves of instability in recent years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as from Burundi.

The first country has generated an estimated 5 million displaced people between 2017 and 2019. The tension in Burundi has caused the flight of hundreds of thousands of Burundians to neighboring countries.

For this reason, UNHCR is providing assistance in camps for displaced people, who need shelter, water, sanitation, medical care, clothing and food.

The president of Inditex, Pablo Isla, has referred to this commitment that the company maintains in the long term in the care of refugees, and that occupies a fundamental part of its investment model in the community: "During the last 20 years, we have collaborated in a stable manner with leading social organizations in their international cooperation and humanitarian aid programs for the care of refugees and forced migrants in numerous areas of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. For all of us who make up Inditex it is a great motivation to maintain this involvement in the future. "

The company highlighted that it continued to meet its

sustainability commitments and objectives

, both in progress in the elimination of plastic and in increasing the weight of raw materials and more sustainable processes within its collections, prioritizing its objectives in this matter and in the eco-efficient management of all its headquarters and stores.

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