Intesa Sanpaolo "takes the field" for thehumanitarian emergency by donating 10 million euros to Unhcr – the two-times Nobel Prize-winning UN refugee agency – and Caritas in favor of Ukrainian population both locally and in Italy. The Chief Executive Officer and CEO of the banking group, Carlo Messina, announced the donation. "With the fundraising launched on our For Funding platform for Unhcr, we invite companies and families to join us in this great humanitarian project", commented Messina.
Humanitarian emergency: over 3 million refugees in Europe
“A senseless war that is causing untold suffering. More than 3 and a half million refugees have crossed the borders of Ukraine, more than 6 and a half million internally displaced - he said Philippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees -. Behind these numbers are women, children and the elderly. They are people terrified by the violence they have witnessed which affects them indiscriminately, refugees and displaced persons who have left everything, marked by the traumas of what they have seen, by tiredness, by the cold, and by concern for their family members left behind in Ukraine. In the face of this crisis - concludes Grandi - the response of the private sector has been extraordinary and the support of Intesa Sanpaolo is crucial as being able to count on immediate financial support without constraints is essential to allow us to continue saving lives. For this I thank Intesa Sanpaolo and Carlo Messina, its Chief Executive Officer and CEO.”
“It is about – underlines don Mark Pagniello, director of Caritas Italiana – of an action that will make it possible to support even more the commitment of Caritas in hospitality. All this being able to count on a network that allows capillarity and responses that are constantly adapted to needs, not only in an emergency but also in the medium and long term. With specific attention to the most vulnerable, especially minors, and to the involvement of local communities to activate paths of accompaniment and inclusion".
