PepsiCo Pakistan’s holistic response to COVID-19

KARACHI: PepsiCo Pakistan, a corporation that has consistently supported community betterment in Pakistan has completed its holistic Covid-19 response.  The company is one of the fastest organizations in the country to reach a 100 percent Covid-19 vaccination rate. PepsiCo made this possible by organizing multiple vaccination drives in collaboration with the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department of the Government of Punjab. Both entities collaborated to organize vaccination drives and awareness programs for over 3,000 employees and frontline associates across PepsiCo’s facilities.  PepsiCo aimed to prioritize employee health, safety, and wellbeing and accelerated support for the public health authorities on the national Covid-19 immunization agenda.

Protecting employees’ health, well-being, and safety is an utmost priority at PepsiCo Pakistan, where a conscientious and people-centric company culture drives a safe work environment for people and the surrounding Pakistani communities. PepsiCo has embarked on transformational policies that have uplifted workplace safety standards and contributed to its ‘Winning with Purpose’ agenda for sustained and accelerated company-wide growth. In these particularly challenging times, PepsiCo has taken full ownership for cultivating an environment safe for all.

From the onset of the pandemic in 2020, PepsiCo Pakistan has positively touched the lives of communities it operates in. PepsiCo Pakistan launched the ‘Millions of Meals’ program – a nationwide food distribution drive that served meals to underserved and needy families amidst the pandemic. In 2020 PepsiCo Pakistan successfully distributed 13 million nutritious meals in remote areas including Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan, and Azad & Jammu Kashmir in collaboration with the Prime Minister’s Ehsaas program.

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As Pakistan nears its recovery from the pandemic, PepsiCo continues to move forward in its ‘In, With, For Pakistan’, agenda and stands steady to create positive social impact and build up its alliances with the public sector and civil society to uplift and support communities.