EQS-News: Wienerberger AG: Cooperation with Habitat for Humanity prolonged: Wienerberger helps to provide housing for people in need

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Wienerberger AG: Cooperation with Habitat for Humanity prolonged:
Wienerberger helps to provide housing for people in need

28.02.2022 / 11:00
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Cooperation with Habitat for Humanity prolonged: Wienerberger helps to
provide housing for people in need

* 10-year jubilee: Cooperation between Wienerberger and Habitat for
Humanity International since 2012
* Help provided for about 5,000 people over the past ten years

As a leading international supplier of building material and
infrastructure solutions, Wienerberger is committed to creating the
greatest possible benefit for society with its products and its expertise,
not least by providing affordable and safe housing. Since 2012, the
company has cooperated with Habitat for Humanity International, a
non-governmental non-profit organization, on numerous social projects in
various countries. At the beginning of this year, Wienerberger prolonged
the cooperation agreement, which expired in 2021, until 2024.

Within the framework of this cooperation, support has already been
provided for about 5,000 people. During the past three years alone, the
company helped 159 families and enabled them to live under better
conditions; another 784 disadvantaged persons were supported through
municipal projects, such as the construction of centers for people with
disabilities, the establishment of community centers, or the renovation of
school buildings. „We continuously support a whole range of social
projects and institutions in many countries Wienerberger operates in. We
are best able to help with our core competencies, i.e. by supplying
building materials and infrastructure solutions or through the transfer of
sustainable building know-how. Our cooperation with Habitat for Humanity
also contributes substantially toward heightening the public’s awareness
of the need for affordable housing, to offer socially disadvantaged people
a place they can call home, and to improve their living conditions“, says
Heimo Scheuch, Chairman of the Managing Board of Wienerberger AG.

ESG: Wienerberger’s commitment to corporate social responsibility
Within the framework of its Sustainability Program 2023, Wienerberger has
set itself the following target relating to its corporate social
responsibility: 200 housing units per year are to be built for people in
need in the company’s local markets, and the annual product and cash
donations are to be increased in all participating countries. Products and
solutions from the entire „World of Wienerberger“ from Europe and the USA
are to be employed, such as clay blocks for interior and exterior walls as
well as roof tiles from Wienerberger Building Solutions, ceramic and
plastic pipes for drinking water supply and wastewater discharge from
Pipelife, and facing bricks from General Shale in Wienerberger’s North
America Business Unit.

Cooperation between Wienerberger and Habitat for Humanity International
also extends to advocacy measures aimed at a housing policy that ensures
the provision of energy-efficient and affordable homes for all. In this
context, joint events are being organized to heighten the awareness for
the importance of social housing among political stakeholders and the
public administration. Moreover, within the framework of volunteer events,
employees of the Wienerberger Group join forces to build homes for people
in need.

Wienerberger and Habitat for Humanity: Implementation of numerous social
projects
In Hungary, for example, Wienerberger supported the construction of a
hostel in Miskolc for families visiting their autistic relatives living in
Willow House. In Poland, where a family’s home and all their belongings
were destroyed by a fire in December 2020, the company helped by
renovating the roof. In Romania, Habitat for Humanity used product
donations from Wienerberger to build four new houses in 2021, where four
low-income families now have found a decent and affordable home. In the
United States, numerous families benefited from donations by General
Shale.

About Habitat for Humanity
Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat
for Humanity found its earliest inspirations as a grassroots movement on
an interracial community farm in South Georgia. Since its founding in
1976, the Christian housing organization has grown to become a leading
global nonprofit working in local communities across all 50 states in the
U.S. and in more than 70 countries. Families and individuals in need of a
hand up partner with Habitat for Humanity to build or improve a place they
can call home. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside
volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. Through financial support,
volunteering or adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can
help families achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need
to build better lives for themselves. To learn more, visit [1]habitat.org.

Wienerberger Group
The Wienerberger Group is a leading international provider of smart
solutions for the entire building envelope and for infrastructure.
Wienerberger is the world’s largest producer of bricks (Porotherm, Terca)
and the market leader in clay roof tiles (Koramic, Tondach) in Europe as
well as concrete pavers (Semmelrock) in Eastern Europe. In pipe systems
(Steinzeug-Keramo ceramic pipes and Pipelife plastic pipes), the company
is one of the leading suppliers in Europe. By acquiring Meridian Brick,
Wienerberger further strengthened its position as a leading supplier of
facade products in North America. With its total of 215 production sites,
the Wienerberger Group generated revenues of € 4.0 billion and EBITDA LFL
of € 671 million in 2021.  

For further information, please contact:
Claudia Hajdinyak, Head of Corporate Communications Wienerberger AG
t +43 664 828 31 83 | claudia.hajdinyak@wienerberger.com
 

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Language: English
Company: Wienerberger AG
Wienerbergerplatz 1
1100 Wien
Austria
Phone: +43 1 60 192-0
Fax: +43 1 60 192-10159
E-mail: office@wienerberger.com
Internet: www.wienerberger.com
ISIN: AT0000831706
Listed: Vienna Stock Exchange (Official Market)
EQS News ID: 1289057

 
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