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ThyssenKrupp CSA Aids Flood Victims and Combats Dengue Fever
01/21/2009 - ThyssenKrupp CSA Companhia do Atlântico, ThyssenKrupp Steel’s Brazil-based affiliate, launches two new projects as part of its responsibility to society.
ThyssenKrupp Steel AG’s Brazil-based affiliate, ThyssenKrupp CSA Companhia do Atlântico, launched two new projects at the beginning of 2009 as part of its responsibility to society.
ThyssenKrupp CSA is donating food and clothing to help flood victims in Santa Catarina and Rio de Janeiro. The relief effort will help to support the two states, which experienced several days of torrential rain in November 2008 that caused floods and landslides. At least 100 people lost their lives as a result, and more than 70,000 were made homeless in Santa Catarina alone.
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva called it “the worst natural disaster in Brazilian history”.
In December, ThyssenKrupp CSA collected food and clothing for the flood victims. The donated resources were then transferred to the civil defense authorities in Rio de Janeiro.
ThyssenKrupp CSA also is cooperating closely with the government of Rio de Janeiro on a project to combat dengue fever, a potentially deadly virus that infected a sharply higher number of people within the state last year. The illness is transmitted primarily by the yellow fever mosquito.
ThyssenKrupp CSA also is cooperating closely with the government of Rio de Janeiro on a project to combat dengue fever, a potentially deadly virus that infected a sharply higher number of people within the state last year. The illness is transmitted primarily by the yellow fever mosquito.
To help mitigate the problem, ThyssenKrupp CSA is training voluntary helpers to keep watch for populations of the dangerous mosquitoes on and around the site. The company also is instructing employees about how to protect themselves against infection.
