BRF DONATES HOSPITAL PRODUCTS TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF DOURADOS

PPEs, probes, catheters and other products have been bestowed by the Company as a part of its contribution to fight the effects of coronavirus in the region

In order to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic, BRF has donated hospital products to the Health Services Foundation of Dourados (Fundação de Serviços de Saúde de Dourados / FUNSAUD), in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul. This institution has received personal protection equipment (PPEs), such as caps and gloves, and health items, such as probes, urine collectors, bandages, catheters, wound dressings, and electrodes. 

This initiative has counted on the BRF Institute’s support, an association that strategically channels the Company’s social investments. During the coronavirus pandemic, IBRF has been managing donations in order to pursue the efforts to contain dissemination of the virus, contribute to providing care to the local population, and act to fight the effects of the pandemic in the communities where BRF operates.  

About the BRF Institute: 

The BRF Institute is a private association responsible for strategically channeling BRF’S social investments. Founded in 2012, its purpose is to promote sustainable communities, by fostering socio-economic inclusion, social innovation and corporate citizenship, based on food supply and waste reduction. Since its creation, and through volunteering actions and direct investment projects, the BRF Institute has already reached more than 400 thousand people, mobilized 30,000 volunteers, and undertaken more than 2 thousand social actions in 60 cities around the country. 

About BRF 

BRF is present in 117 countries and owns brands such as Sadia, Perdigão and Qualy. Its purpose is to offer quality and increasingly savory and practical food products, to people and their pets all over the world, through the sustainable management of a live, extended and complex supply chain, able to provide a better quality of life to all, from farms to consumers’ tables.