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Hyundai gives donation to aid victims of KZN floods

May 03, 2022 Hyundai Automotive South Africa, Hyundai Motor Company of South Korea, Niall Lynch, Gift of the Givers, Motus Corporation,


Hyundai gives donation to aid victims of KZN floods

 

Hyundai Automotive South Africa and Hyundai Motor Company of South Korea has donated R1,5 million towards relief efforts for residents of KwaZulu-Natal.

 

The donation cheque was handed to Gift of the Givers Foundation on 26 April 2022, at the Hyundai Umhlanga dealership. At the same occasion, another donation of R1,5 million rand was handed to Gift of the Givers by Motus Corporation, holding company of Hyundai Automotive SA, which brings the total contribution to R3 million. The bulk of the donated money will go towards acquiring material to help flood victims rebuild homes and places of residence that were damaged or washed away.

 

“The losses and suffering due to the floods in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) are of a scale unseen in recent times in South Africa. There was no doubt in our minds that we had to contribute to the relief effort in the province by this donation to Gift of the Givers, which has vast experience and many successes in relief and rebuilding operations of this kind,” says Niall Lynch, CEO of Hyundai Automotive SA.

 

“Hyundai Motor Company of South Korea is equally concerned about the disaster in KZN and have combined with us to make this contribution possible. We trust that the funds donated in this collaborative effort will be put to good use to improve the lives and circumstances of people who have lost homes, all possessions and modes of transport,” says Lynch.

  

“Gift of the Givers deeply values the incredible partnership with Hyundai and Motus who always rise to the challenge at the most critical times during disaster intervention. At the onset of Covid-19 we had to increase our vehicle fleet to meet the ever-demanding requests from 210 hospitals nationwide and to deploy mobile Covid-19 testing teams. Hyundai and Motus responded rapidly with the donation of three vehicles,” says Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, founder and head of the Gift of the Givers Foundation. “In 2021 they added another two, and yet another one at the beginning of 2022 as part of an ongoing supply of vehicles to vastly improve Gift of the Givers logistics capability.” 

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