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Companies providing expertise in addition to donations for Nepal

HSL Constructor and DHL, for example, have sent disaster-response teams; airlines sending aid supplies

Published Tue, Apr 28, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

WITH the death toll from the Nepal earthquake rising, local and international companies are chipping in to provide relief for the victims, not just in cash, but also in kind - in the form of their professional expertise.

Local engineering firm HSL Constructor, working under the Corporate Citizen Foundation's Swift Emergency Evaluation Deployment (SEED) platform, sent five trained humanitarian workers and media personnel to Nepal on Monday, along with supplies such as body bags, stretchers and water filtration systems.

The team i…

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