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COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN 2017 ACTIVE LIVING Gildan Glow Run P1 Since 2013, Gildan has organized the Glow Run – a fun, interactive event for employees and their families to raise funds for community projects. In 2017, the Gildan Glow Run was held in Honduras, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic. Over $100,000 was raised thanks to 12,000 participants and volunteers. The funds raised are being donated to local projects including the neo-natal unit at the Leonardo Martínez Valenzuela Hospital in Honduras, CONANCA, an organization that provides support to children with cancer in Nicaragua and the Caridad Misionera Home, a residence providing shelter and assistance to underprivileged girls in the Dominican Republic. Over the last 5 years, the Glow Run has raised over $370,0000 for communities in Latin America.

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Page 1: COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN 2017 - Genuine …...COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN 2017 ACTIVE LIVING Gildan Glow Run P1 Since 2013, Gildan has organized the Glow Run – a fun, interactive event for

COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN 2017 ACTIVE LIVING

Gildan Glow Run

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Since 2013, Gildan has organized the Glow Run – a fun, interactive event for employees and their families to raise funds for community projects. In 2017, the Gildan Glow Run was held in Honduras, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic. Over $100,000 was raised thanks to 12,000 participants and volunteers. The funds raised are being donated to local projects including the neo-natal unit at the Leonardo Martínez Valenzuela Hospital in Honduras, CONANCA, an

organization that provides support to children with cancer in Nicaragua and the Caridad Misionera Home, a residence providing shelter and assistance to underprivileged girls in the Dominican Republic. Over the last 5 years, the Glow Run has raised over $370,0000 for communities in Latin America.

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Gildan Pink Tour

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The Leonardo Martínez Valenzuela Hospital received a donation of medical equipment for its surgery ward from Gildan. The equipment, valued at more than US $520,000, for the new operating rooms at the healthcare center will provide free services to patients in the Northern Region of the country. This new surgical module is expected to perform more than 8,000 surgeries annually.

This donation provides the hospital, which has been operating in the city for more than 110 years, exclusive equipment to assist patients in need of pediatric and gynecological surgery. It will also allow them to improve medical attention of the brigades in these two areas of intervention.

Donation to the Infant Ward of the Mario C. Rivas Hospital

Gildan’s “Pink Tour” is an initiative aimed at raising awareness of breast cancer among women at Gildan’s facilities in Central America and the Caribbean Basin. The program began in 2010 and accompanied thousands of women in the early detection and intervention in the fight against cancer.

For its 7th edition, 10 teams from 8 facilities in Central America and Caribbean Basin participated in a charity soccer tournament to benefit the program CEPUDO Lazas de Amor (acronym of Training, Education, Production,

Unification, Development, Organization). This program helps women with their treatment costs and provides support spaces for women battling cancer. In each of Gildan’s facilities in Latin America, local teams carried out different awareness-raising activities such as presentations, self-examination workshops, mammograms and ultrasound raffles. The resident Gildan doctors also toured the facilities to lead discussions about prevention and detection.

This donation of equipment is part of Gildan’s health program, in which the Company has invested more than US $1.45 million since 2015. These efforts were targeted to the country’s largest hospitals, such as the Hospital Escuela Universitario and Hospital San Felipe in Tegucigalpa and the Mario C. Rivas Hospital and Leonardo Martínez Hospital in San Pedro Sula.