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Sustainability Focus Areas
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To bring our sustainability efforts to life, we decided to focus on areas in which we can most effectively make a positive difference and which can involve all our businesses and regions. After much internal and external discussion, we selected two areas :

  • Water
  • Health and Hygiene
 
P&G's work in these areas entails :

  • Reaching consumers we have never reached, such as in the rural villages and urban slums of the developing world
  • Creating new products responsing to the needs, frustrations and aspirations of those new consumers and selling those products at an affordable price
  • Exploring new business models, often with new supply and distribution systems to lower cost and extend reach
 

Sustainability in Action

Pampers UK Donates 7.4 million tetanus vaccines to UNICEF

Pampers UK and UNICEF have recently announced the results of their joint campaign to provide tetanus vaccinations to help protect vulnerable mothers and their new babies against maternal and neonatal tetanus. The 2 month campaign ran during November and December last year here in the UK and has resulted in an amazing 7,461,234 vaccines being donated to UNICEF.

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Pampers UK Donates 7.4 million tetanus vaccines to UNICEF

Children's Safe Drinking Water Programme

More than 5,000 children die every day from diseases caused by drinking unsafe water. Our goal is to reduce that number substantially.

The Children's Safe Drinking Water programme is P&G's Corporate Signature Programme for Live, Learn and Thrive and consists of emergency relief work and establishing not-for-profit markets to provide our safe drinking-water technology to children and their families in the developing world.

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Children's Safe
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About our safe drinking-water technology

P&G’s Health Sciences Institute has developed a product for water purification called that could help more than a billion people in developing nations who do not have safe drinking water. Scientists at our Newcastle Research & Development site played a key role in this development work.

P&G has won the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and United Nations Development Programme prize for 's water cleaning technology – in support of United Nations Millenium Development Goals.

For more information go to P&G's Health Sciences Institute website


Related articles :

Procter & Gamble and PSI Announce Commitment To Provide Safe Drinking Water in Africa

P&G's PUR - Purifier of Water Awarded 2005 Stockholm Industry Water Award

UNICEF and Procter & Gamble join forces on safe drinking water for children


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P&G will always be committed to improving the environmental quality of our operations and our products.

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