CRAMO ENTERS PRINCIPAL SPONSORSHIP FOR SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES' NEW VILLAGE IN UKRAINE The European rental company Cramo has decided to increase their long-term support of SOS Children's' Villages by committing to a corporate sponsorship, including a EUR 75,000 donation to the organization's new village in Brovary, Ukraine. More and more companies are choosing to give a donation to a charity organization as an alternative to giving Christmas gifts to customers and employees. Cramo - which is a rental company with operations in the Nordic and the Baltic countries, Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic - has been supporting SOS Children's Villages for many years. SOS Children's Villages has a well-established organisation and activities in all of these countries. The construction of the new SOS Children's Village in Brovary, Ukraine, is presently being completed, and the plan is to have all children move in during the spring of 2008. "We are very happy to see Cramo's increasing trust in and support of SOS Children's Villages, and that they now want to become one of our main sponsors," says, Pia Watkinson, corporate relations manager at, SOS -Children's Villages. "Many vulnerable orphans will benefit from this important contribution." Cramo has chosen to sponsor SOS Children's Villages in part because of the organization's presence in every market where Cramo has its operations. "By committing to a main sponsorship, we contribute to building real homes for the most vulnerable children. Obviously, this is of great importance to the children, their families and the local community. From a broader perspective, it also has a positive impact on the industry and our own operations," says Anders Collman, director of Communications, who is responsible for group-wide sponsoring at the Cramo Group. For more information, contact: Pia Watkinson, corporate relations manager, SOS Children's Villages in Sweden, tel.: +46 734 03 0430 or Anders Collman, director of Corporate Communications, Cramo, tel.: +46 8 623 54 77. SOS Childen's Villages is the largest organization in the world today providing care for orphans and children in need, giving them a home, a family and an education. Since its start in Austria in 1949, SOS Children's Villages has built and operated children's villages in 132 countries. The organization also operates schools, medical and social centres, vocational schools and youth facilities. SOS Children's Villages has no political or religious affiliation and works in accordance with the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child. More than one million people get help through SOS Childen's Villages each year. Cramo is a rental services company specialising in equipment rental and rental-related services, as well as rental and sale of modular space. As one of the industry's leading service providers in the Nordic countries and Central and Eastern Europe, Cramo operates in ten countries with 260 depots. With a group staff of approximately 2,000, Cramo's consolidated sales for 2006 totalled EUR 402 million. The parent company Cramo Plc is listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki. www.cramo.com.
CRAMO ENTERS PRINCIPAL SPONSORSHIP FOR SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES' NEW VILLAGE IN UKRAINE
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