Procter & Gamble Brings Relief to Residents Affected by Tornadoes in the Great Plains
Procter & Gamble is providing relief to residents impacted by tornadoes in the Great Plains by offering free personal care products, shower services, and laundry facilities at Walmart in Omaha, Nebraska. The initiative is in collaboration with Matthew 25: Ministries to aid families, individuals, and responders in need of essential items after severe storms hit the region. P&G is distributing personal care kits, cleaning products, and laundry services to support the affected communities.
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Residents Can Receive Free P&G Essential Personal Care Products, On-Site Shower Services and Tide Loads of Hope Laundry Services at the Walmart in
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P&G Disaster Relief is activating to support recovery efforts in
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Families, individuals, and responders in need of personal care items, cleaning products, laundry and shower services in the wake of devastating tornadoes and storms striking the Great Plains. |
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P&G Disaster Relief is activating to support recovery efforts in |
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A Tide Loads of Hope Mobile Laundry Unit, powered by Matthew 25: Ministries, will provide free, full-service laundry to affected residents and responders. People can bring clothes (up to two loads per household) to be washed, dried, and folded free of charge. All washable clothing types will be accepted, except for heavy bedding. |
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A shower trailer will be also available to provide residents with hot showers. The shower trailer has five private bathroom/shower units, one of which is ADA-compliant, and a Pampers diaper changing station. Individual personal care products, including shampoo, conditioner and body wash from P&G brands such as Pantene, Head & Shoulders, Olay and Old Spice, and freshly laundered towels will be available for use on-site. All units are thoroughly cleaned and disinfected following each use. |
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In partnership with Matthew 25: Ministries, P&G will also distribute free personal care kits with everyday essentials, including cleaning products to meet basic hygiene and home care needs directly into impacted neighborhoods.* |
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Powerful tornadoes and storms struck the Great Plains, resulting in loss of life, injuries and damage to homes and communities. |
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P&G, Walmart and Matthew 25: Ministries are working together to continue their commitment to help restore a sense of normalcy to communities most impacted by major disasters. Together, they assist people in need of clean laundry, showers and personal care items in communities recovering from major disasters. These services are free and available to local families and first responders while supplies last. |
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Beginning on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, the team will collect laundry at the below location and time until daily capacity has been reached. The deployed disaster relief vehicle will also provide shower services, and the team will be distributing personal care kits, home care and cleaning supplies directly to the affected areas. |
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Walmart, 16960 W. Maple Rd., |
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9am – 5pm CDT (or until daily capacity is reached) |
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For the most up-to-date information, please visit Tide’s social channels: |
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Tide: X account: @Tide and Instagram: @tidelaundry |
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| *Personal care kits contain products from P&G brands such as Always, Crest, Ivory, Gillette, Head & Shoulders, Olay, Old Spice, Oral-B, Pampers, Pantene, Safeguard, Secret, Tampax, and Venus. Home and cleaning product brands include Bounty, Charmin, Dawn, Febreze, Mr. Clean, Swiffer, Tide and Zevo. | ||
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ABOUT TIDE LOADS OF HOPE: For more than 15 years, Tide Loads of Hope has provided free laundry services to families affected by disasters. Created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Tide Loads of Hope is a mobile laundromat that can complete hundreds of loads of laundry per day. In partnership with Matthew 25: Ministries, an international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization, the program has benefitted over 90,000 people across the
As a key component of Tide Ambition 2030, Tide has committed to expand its Loads of Hope program tenfold, providing clean clothes to millions of people in times of need, with a focus on communities most impacted by climate change. Learn more at https://tide.com/en-us/our-commitment/loads-of-hope.
About Philanthropy at Walmart
Walmart.org represents the philanthropic efforts of Walmart and the Walmart Foundation. By focusing where the business has unique strengths, Walmart.org works to tackle key social and environmental issues and collaborate with others to spark long-lasting systemic change. Walmart has stores in 19 countries, employs more than 2 million associates and does business with thousands of suppliers who, in turn, employ millions of people. Walmart.org is helping people live better by supporting programs to accelerate upward job mobility for frontline workers, advance equity, address hunger, build inclusive economic opportunity for people in supply chains, protect and restore nature, reduce waste and emissions, and build strong communities where Walmart operates. To learn more, visit www.walmart.org or connect on X @Walmartorg.
ABOUT MATTHEW 25: MINISTRIES Matthew 25: Ministries rescues and reuses approximately 20,000,000 pounds of products each year and redistributes them to the poorest of the poor and disaster victims. Each year, Matthew 25: Ministries impacts the lives of more than 25,000,000 individuals throughout
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Media Inquiries for P&G and Tide: Chloe McGrath, chloe.mcgrath@ketchum.com
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