64 2021 ESG Report Transparency Responsible supply chain Product impact Climate change Introduction Healthy workforce and communities Appendices $125K Flood recovery in the Gulf Coast and the East Coast of the United States $50K Relief for veterans in the United States and refugees from Afghanistan $240K Flood recovery in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands $50K Earthquake recovery in Haiti $600K Humanitarian relief in Ukraine $300K COVID-19 relief in India How we support resilient communities For more than a decade, BD has partnered with international relief agencies including the American Red Cross, Direct Relief, AmeriCares, MAP International, CMMB and Heart to Heart International to deploy product donations and cash support quickly and efficiently to build the resiliency of communities worldwide as they work to recover from disasters, pandemics and conflict. In 2021 and the early part of 2022, philanthropic cash and product donations from the BD Foundation were deployed to regions around the world. Responding to the conflict in Ukraine: BD and the BD Foundation committed $600,000 in cash to support our trusted international relief partners—Americares, International Medical Corps and Project HOPE—in their response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict in Ukraine. This cash support helped expand access to emergency healthcare services, mobile medical units, essential medicines and medical supplies. BD employees also contributed more than $90,000 to the BD Associate Relief Fund, which provided a total of 90 grants to BD colleagues who were impacted by the 2022 conflict in Ukraine. Responding to flooding in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands: In July 2021, heavy rains caused devastating flooding in regions of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, causing tragic loss of life and widespread destruction of property and infrastructure. BD and the BD Foundation together donated $240,000 to the disaster response effort in the region, and more than a dozen BD associates served as volunteer firefighters who worked tirelessly to save and serve families whose lives or homes were endangered by the flooding. “It is really hard to put into words the impact the floods had on our community...the floods stopped at nothing. Whole houses were washed away,” said Hermann Sicken, BD Environment, Health and Safety Specialist who serves as chief fire officer in a volunteer firefighter brigade that responded to extensive flooding in Kelberg, Germany. “I see firefighting as a passion and a certain duty to help other people. It is an indescribable feeling when you are able to save someone.”