TNT Express, the world’s leading B2B express delivery company, has joined Foresight – the UAE based non-profit charity organisation - in its year end ‘Save Your Stamps’ fundraising drive to help raise awareness of blindness caused by hereditary eye disease.
The latest Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative by TNT will see it assist Foresight in its collection of used stamps from the general public. The stamps which can be dropped off at TNT’s Sheikh Zayed Road walk-in-centre and Foresight’s office in Knowledge Village will then be shipped to the UK’s Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), to be sold.
“As a global business, TNT strives to improve the social and environmental impact it has on the communities in which it operates, and the ‘Save Your Stamps’ campaign is an example of our on-going local CSR activity, “said Rodney Ellis, Commercial and Marketing Manager-Gulf, TNT Express.
The money raised from the sale of the stamps will be donated to the Sunshine House School, Northwood, England - a school for partially sighted, blind and multiple disability children providing high quality specialist education and care, enabling the children to achieve their full potential.
TNT provides businesses and consumers worldwide with an extensive range of services for their mail and express delivery needs. Headquartered in the Netherlands, TNT offers efficient network infrastructures in Europe and Asia and is expanding operations worldwide to maximize its network performance. TNT serves more than 200 countries and employs over 128,000 people. In the first half of 2006, TNT reported € 5.3 billion in revenues and € 671 million EBIT from continuing operations. TNT N.V. is publicly listed on the stock exchanges of Amsterdam and New York. TNT recognizes its social responsibility, and has formed partnerships with the United Nations World Food Programme and the United Nations Environmental Programme to fight hunger and pollution in the world. More information about TNT can be found on its website http://group.tnt.com
