WACO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) today announced that employee volunteers from the company’s personal care manufacturing facility in Waco, TX visited Rapoport Academy Elementary School – East Campus on Thursday, April 26th at 8:45am to donate and read 200 new books to the school’s children as part of its partnership with First Book. Domtar makes a wide variety of everyday products from sustainable wood fiber, and is one of the world’s largest producers of a complete line of absorbent hygiene solutions and an innovator in absorbent technology. Domtar’s facility in Waco employs nearly 200 people in the local community.
Employee volunteers from the Domtar personal care manufacturing facility in Waco, TX read and donated 200 books to the Pre-K students, Kindergarteners, First Graders, and Second Graders of Rapoport Academy Elementary School - East Campus, 2000 J.J. Flewellen, Waco, TX 76704. Each of the 200 participating students will be able to take home one of the books donated by Domtar.
This is the second grant that Domtar has provided to Rapoport Academy Elementary School in the last six months. This past October, Domtar provided a grant that enabled the school to purchase more than 240 books from First Book for students to read and enjoy.
“Domtar is so grateful for the wonderful relationship that we’ve developed with the students and teachers of Rapoport Academy Elementary School through our book grants and volunteer reading events,” said Domtar Corporate Responsibility Manager, Heather Alverson Stowe. “We’re committed to promoting literacy, one of Domtar’s core corporate giving pillars, by continuing to put books in the hands of children in the Waco community—it’s a cause that is close to our hearts and core to our business.”
As part of its Powerful Pages campaign, Domtar has partnered with First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise that provides books to children in need, since 2012 to provide more than half a million dollars in grants to schools and programs in towns that are home to Domtar facilities. Domtar’s grants provide funding to educators to purchase books through the First Book Marketplace, a website available exclusively to First Book programs, and then the school’s children are able to bring home the new books.
“Access to books is transformational in the lives of our children and the educators who serve them,” said Kyle Zimmer, First Book president and CEO. “Domtar’s work with First Book has opened up a world of opportunities to children who might not otherwise have books at home.”
About Domtar
Domtar is a leading provider of a wide variety
of fiber-based products including communication, specialty and packaging
papers, market pulp and absorbent hygiene products. With approximately
10,000 employees serving more than 50 countries around the world, Domtar
is driven by a commitment to turn sustainable wood fiber into useful
products that people rely on every day. Domtar’s annual sales are
approximately $5.1 billion, and its common stock is traded on the New
York and Toronto Stock Exchanges. Domtar’s principal executive office is
in Fort Mill, South Carolina. To learn more, visit www.domtar.com.
About First Book
First Book is a nonprofit social enterprise
that has distributed more than 100 million books and educational
resources to programs and schools serving children from low-income
families throughout the United States and Canada. By making new,
high-quality books available on an ongoing basis, First Book is
transforming the lives of children in need and elevating the quality of
education. For more information, please visit
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