JOHNSONBURG — Domtar Corp. announced Friday that employee volunteers from the company’s paper mill in Johnsonburg assembled 400 baby care packages for donation to a number of local nonprofit organizations that help support underserved families in Elk, Cameron and McKean counties.
The donated care packages include baby diapers and children’s books.
The packages assembled by Domtar employees will be distributed to the following nonprofit organizations who will in turn distribute these care packages to underserved families in the Johnsonburg community:
• Guardian Angel Center
• Elcam, Inc.
• Guidance Centers of Elk and McKean counties
• St. Marys Area United Way
• Bradford Hospital WIC Program
• Early Intervention of Elk and Cameron counties
“We’re proud to provide these care packages to families who need them,” said Domtar Johnsonburg mill manager Greg Linscott. “Domtar is committed to caring for the communities in which we operate, especially during this unprecedented time when low-income families are adversely impacted by this pandemic”
The Domtar Comfort and Care Program has helped alleviate financial and emotional stress for families in need by donating hundreds of thousands of diapers to charitable organizations.
The new board books included in the baby care packages were donated by Domtar through its partnership with First Book. As part of its Powerful Pages campaign, Domtar has partnered with First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise that provides books to children in need, since 2012 to provide more than half a million dollars in grants to schools and programs in towns that are home to Domtar facilities. Domtar’s grants provide funding to educators to purchase books through the First Book Marketplace, a website available exclusively to First Book programs, and then the school’s children are able to bring home the new books.
Domtar makes a wide variety of everyday products from sustainable wood fiber, and it is one of the world’s largest producers of uncoated freesheet papers. The company’s Johnsonburg paper mill employs 350 people in the local community.
