Shell Oil Company has donated over $300,000 to help victims of Hurricane Laura.
The money, according to the oil company management, was donated across its businesses in Louisiana to assist those impacted in southwest Louisiana in the wake of the Category 4 storm, which displaced more than 100,000 people.
The donations include: $40,000 to the Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana, $10,000 to the American Red Cross, $25,000 to Second Harvest of Acadiana, $50,000 to United Way of Southwest Louisiana, $50,000 to stand up and deploy Shell volunteer clean up and rebuilding events.
Another $90,000 was donated to provide shower stations and restroom trailers to hardest hit areas, $10,000 to provide humanitarian supplies to hardest hit areas, and $35,000 for a volunteer cooking team to feed over 3,000 people in hardest hit areas.
Shell Vice President, Production for Deep-water Gulf of Mexico, Rick Tallant, said in a release that “almost exactly 15 years ago, Shell’s operations and people in Louisiana faced monumental challenges to our people and business from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
“Back then in 2005, our neighbours in southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas took us in and helped us to recover and rebuild so that Shell could continue to call Louisiana home.”
Tallant said the company was grateful for the opportunity to repay their kindness and care by stepping up and providing a suite of disaster recovery donations and volunteer activations from every aspect of its Louisiana businesses so its neighbors too can recover and rebuild their lives and businesses in Southwest Louisiana.
Shell’s Vice President, Rhoman Hardy, identified Louisiana as one of the most critical regions Shell operates globally, noting that the state is home to all aspects of its business, ranging from retail gas stations, refining and chemical manufacturing, and remains the home and heartland of its Deepwater Gulf of Mexico exploration and production business.
Hardy added, “These businesses directly employ more than 4,000 people, with another 4,000-plus Shell retirees calling Louisiana home. When one part of our state needs help, we respond, because this is our home too.
“Shell employees also donate to select non-profits in the region aimed at hurricane relief until September 15, through the company’s “Helping Everyone Reach Out,” or HERO programme.”
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