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Composed in part of refugees, prominent appliance manufacturer Mabe is committed to protecting lifeguards in Latin America.
It is part of an industrial-scale washing device production team, subtle for older pathogens and is expected to be donated to hospitals and clinics across Latin America treating patients with COVID-19, as well as shelters serving refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
The company for which he works, Mabe, also produces “aeroboxes”, which remodel the plastic housings of refrigerators on separation screens to help protect doctors, nurses and other frontline medical personnel in the sensitive patient intubation procedure.
“He’ll do a lot to families in shelters. “
“I am very proud to contribute through my paintings and help others in the pandemic,” says the father of two, taking a break from the production line of the factory he runs in the city of Saltillo in northern Mexico. in shelters a lot. “
José Manuel is one of more than one hundred refugees and asylum seekers hired in Mabe, which in turn was founded 74 years ago through two marketers who escaped the turmoil of post-civil war Spain. the world.
Uprooted from his local Central American thanks to the death threats of the gang members, José Manuel arrived in Mexico in 2016 with his circle of relatives, with their lives crowded in a few suitcases.
After his move from the city on Mexico’s southern border to Saltillo, a few hours’ drive south of Texas, José Manuel in Mabe in 2016 and is now guilty of the washing device production line.
The resettlement programme, implemented by UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, is moving thousands of refugees from overcrowded ports of access in southern Mexico to disgustingly rich shopping malls in the central and northern markets.
There, strong jobs are more likely to be placed, allowing them to integrate more into Mexican society. In 2019, the firm has relocated more than 5,500 people, offering them assistance in assisting them in their new host cities.
“They are looking forward to it and make the most of the opportunity that is given to them. “
The dozens of refugees from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala who are hired in Mabe “are incredibly committed to corporate and eager to do so and make the most of the opportunity that is given to them,” said Pablo Moreno, director of the corporate. .
Latin America is lately one of the epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic, Mexico, with a population of 130 million, has the fourth number of COVID-19-related deaths in the world, after the United States, Brazil and India, according to The Global. Follow-up of coronavirus at Johns Hopkins University.
To date, MABE has manufactured and donated more than 30,000 aeroboxes and 500 washing machines to hospitals, clinics and hostels in Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
And that makes Moreno proud of his number of refugees: “We are pleased that our refugee workers are at the front line of the fight against the coronavirus. “
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