USA. Airport hospitality group OTG and UNICEF USA (United Nations Children’s Fund) today announced an initiative to allow travellers to donate to Ukraine relief directly from OTG airport iPads and mobile ordering technology.
OTG will match up to US$100,000 in donations that are made from its airport technology.
OTG manages hundreds of dining and retail locations in airports across the country, including at Newark, LaGuardia, JFK, Philadelphia, and George Bush Intercontinental airports. The campaign will allow passengers to make a UNICEF donation when ordering or when paying the bill on the airport’s iPad ordering system or through the mobile ordering technology. Each donation will go directly to UNICEF.
UNICEF is working with partners in the war zone to reach vulnerable children and families with essential services including healthcare needs, education, protection, clean water, sanitation and other life-saving supplies.
“We are all watching the situation unfold in Ukraine. We wanted to make it easier for our customers to help those in need, and that’s why we started this initiative,” said OTG Founder and CEO Rick Blatstein.
“UNICEF has been working day and night staffing essential programs in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, delivering essential provisions, and working with women and children who are still being evacuated. UNICEF has an incredible operation, and we are proud to support them by making it easier for our customers to donate and by donating ourselves.”
To learn more about United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) response in Ukraine, visit www.unicefusa.org/OTG. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works in more than 190 countries and territories to pursue a more equitable world for every child. UNICEF has helped save more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organisation, by providing health care and immunisations, safe water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more.
Founded by Rick Blatstein in 1996, OTG is one of North America’s leading airport food & beverage operators with more than 350 restaurants and retail locations across ten airports.
Note: In coming days The Moodie Davitt will publish Travel Retail United, a fundraising initiative to help the Ukraine relief effort. Via direct contributions and a recently launched Just Giving page, the project has raised almost US$50,000 for the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal in association with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC).
- Donors can donate on a named or anonymous basis via our Just Giving page.
- If they wish, donors can also participate in a special apolitical publication from The Moodie Davitt Report in early April to accompany the Travel Retail United initiative. Instead of traditional advertising, donors (individuals or companies) can provide an image (photo, painting or drawing) or a piece of writing (poem, excerpt or original message) to appear besides a subtly positioned brand logo (if required).
There is no fixed price for any donation or advertisement but please be as generous as possible. The Moodie Davitt Report is absorbing all freelance design, editorial and distribution costs. Every cent raised will go to the fund with appropriate documentation provided to each donor. For details please contact Martin Moodie at Martin@MoodieDavittReport.com
