Organizations, FCA partner to provide food for children

FCA announced Friday that it’s expanding its efforts to battle the COVID-19 pandemic by providing food for children and more resources to produce personal protective gear and medical equipment.

“There has never been a more important moment to help children and their families with vital needs in our communities than during this time of great uncertainty,” FCA CEO Mike Manley said in a statement.

Starting immediately, FCA will help provide over a million meals to school-age children in the communities around its principal manufacturing plants in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.

The company will expand the program to include the rest of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

“We are partnering with organizations with whom we have existing, long-standing relationships and that have the capacity to scale their networks to serve the community,” said FCA Canada’s head of communications, Lou Ann Gosselin.

In addition to having plants in Windsor, Brampton and Etobicoke, FCA also has also parts and sales offices throughout the country.

Earlier this week the company announced it was readying one of its plants in Asia to make masks.

FCA also announced Friday it’s now investing technical, logistical and manufacturing resources to the production of medical equipment and personal protective equipment (PPE).

FCA is teaming up with other companies producing ventilators and other much needed medical equipment and PPE.

“In this time of need, we’ve focused our resources on those actions we can implement quickly and that will have the greatest impact as we did in Italy as soon as the emergency started,” Manley said.