The cartridge recycler will send digital Christmas cards and donate money saved to three charities.
The company reported that this Christmas it will “only send digital Christmas cards and refrain from sending Christmas gifts to our customers”, with the money saved “donated to charities selected by our staff” instead, adding that “we trust that these donations will meet your interests”.
The three charities chosen by the “entire” ClozDLoop team include Child Poverty Fund of the Kind Baudouin Foundation, Memisa and WaterAid. The first is a fund for children living in poverty in Belgium, with 10 percent born in Flanders “born into an underprivileged family” equating to “approximately 130,000 children” with “fewer opportunities”, and the organisation supports projects that “provide more development opportunities” to children and families.
Memisa meanwhile is an “emergency call for Ebola”, with the organisation providing healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for about 4.5 to five million people in rural provinces. This year, the Equateur province has seen 71 cases of Ebola and 43 deaths, including eight health organisations, and Memisa is committed to “prevent further spread”.
Finally, WaterAid’s Project Child of Mine aims to help provide “clean water and safe sanitation” to more of the 748 million people around the world – a tenth of the total population – who currently “have no choice but to get water from wherever they can”, which has lead to 1,400 children dying per day from “water-related diseases”.