Henkel follows with great sympathy the events in Japan after the major earthquake and the subsequent tsunami. The company has provided immediate and unbureaucratic help and has initiated donations. Many Henkel employees from all over the world have expressed their sympathy with the victims of this natural catastrophe and their wish to donate money themselves. Henkel is collecting these employee donations and will transfer them to a local relief organization.

Thousands of victims, unimaginable destruction – the Haitian earthquake cause aid organizations throughout the world to sound the red alert. Henkel too responded by deciding immediately to send aid. The company was able to quickly channel a donation to the aid charity International Search and Rescue – I.S.A.R./Germany. The main focus of the operations carried out by the aid workers of I.S.A.R. lay in the provision of medical supplies and rescuing quake victims. Henkel also donated care products, household detergents and, especially useful packs of wound adhesive, donated to Humaplus, UNICEF and International Health Partners.

December 2004: on Boxing Day a tsunami in the Indian Ocean took countless human lives and swept away the livelihoods of thousands more. Henkel, its employees and retirees, the Henkel family and many others donated a total of 600,000 euros in order to give the people in the region at least a little hope for the future.