CITGO, a subsidiary of the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA US-based launched a charity program to provide “warm” to low-income Americans.
The company donates heating oil to needy households. This edition is the seventh program and will benefit 400,000 people in 25 states, according to the CITGO statement. Among the beneficiaries there are some Native American communities living in over 250 shelters for homeless people, as well as housing cooperatives and thousands of individual houses.
"We don’t want for families to have to choose between keeping their homes heated or pay for other basic needs like food or medicines," said CITGO CEO Alejandro Granado, when opening the program.
Since CITGO launched the program for the first time, it has invested around 400 million dollars to provide heat to those most in need. In 2010 the company donated about 60 million dollars in fuel to American unprotected families.
According to the president of the Venezuelan oil company, the CITGO-Venezuela Program Heating Oil "is the largest energy assistance program which advances at all."
Given the rising fuel prices and cuts in the federal government energy assistance, CITGO assistance is timely for many American families with limited resources.
Source: www.rt.com
