Mitsubishi Electric In-house Donation Program to Aid Victims of Earthquake in Myanmar

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that the Mitsubishi Electric Group has donated a cumulative 7.4 million yen through an in-house matching-gift program — the Mitsubishi Electric SOCIO-ROOTS Fund — to aid people affected by the earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28.

Donations were collected at Mitsubishi Electric group offices. Contributions from employees amounted to 3.7 million yen, which the company then doubled, and the total was donated on May 30 to Save the Children Japan's disaster relief program responding to the earthquake in Myanmar.

To date, Mitsubishi Electric has already made a separate corporate donation of 10 million yen, as announced on April 7.

The Mitsubishi Electric Group once again expresses its deepest sympathies to those affected by the disaster and its sincerest best wishes for a speedy recovery.

About Mitsubishi Electric SOCIO-ROOTS Fund
Established in 1992, the Mitsubishi Electric SOCIO-ROOTS Fund is open to Mitsubishi Electric employees in Japan, or worldwide in special cases. Each year, many employees across the country take advantage of the fund to support various facilities and programs involved with social welfare.

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