16 January 2007

Dumex, the leader of infant milk formula market, today signed a donation agree- ment with the SOS Child- ren’s Village China that Dumex will donate € 100,000 (? 1,000,000) to the Lhasa SOS Children’s Village, and set up the "Dumex Education Fund" by cooperating with SOS Children’s Village China to provide work skill training to the older youth in all SOS Children’s Villages in China. Bai Yihua, President of SOS Children’s Village China and Alejandro Rivas, Managing Director of International Nutrition Co., Ltd, attended the signing ceremony.

As said by President Bai Yihua, "Today, it’s our honour to sign the agreement with Dumex on aiding the construction and development of SOS Children’s Villages China. This is a social donation of the longest aid period and the most amounts that SOS Children’s Villages China has received by now. The existence and development of the Chinese SOS Children’s Villages rely on the support of the society. We sincerely appreciate the beneficence of Dumex. The children in SOS Children’s Villages China will never forget those who have helped them."

"To participate in community and social charity activities is a long-term development strategy of Dumex, which embodies the undertaking that Dumex devotes to the healthy growth of infants and children." said by Alejandro Rivas, "In China, we have donated 8 Hope Schools and will continue our aid. Now our parent company, Royal Numico of the Netherlands has called on all subsidiaries in 37 countries to work for local SOS Children’s Villages and provide effective aid to the orphans. For Dumex, this is our obligatory duty. We have made a plan of providing long-term aid to SOS Children’s Villages China, which is implemented from today."

SOS Children’s Villages was established by Hermann Gmeiner of Austria in the 1940s as a non-profitable and non-governmental charity organisation for protecting children’s rights and interests. Today, 140 countries have established SOS Children’s Villages to provide family-like aid to tens of thousands of orphans.