Alaska Airlines a me ka Alaska Airlines Foundation, kahi waiwai kūʻokoʻa ʻole, ua hāʻawi manawaleʻa ma mua o 1 miliona mau pāʻina e kōkua i nā panakō meaʻai kūloko a puni ka ʻāina e kākoʻo i nā kaiāulu nāwaliwali loa i hoʻopili ʻia e Covid-19.
"I kēia manawa paʻakikī, pilikia ka mālama ʻana i ka meaʻai no nā ʻohana he lehulehu, me nā mea he nui e ʻimi nei i ke kōkua no ka manawa mua i ko lākou ola." ʻO Diana Birkett Rakow, Ka pelekikena hope o ka mokulele 'o Alaska Airlines. "ʻO ke kākoʻo ʻana i nā koi e ulu nei i kā mākou panakō meaʻai kūloko kahi hemahema koʻikoʻi a ua hana nui nā limahana o Alaska Airlines a me Horizon Air i kēia hana no nā makahiki he nui. Nīnau aku mākou iā ʻoe e hui pū me mākou āpau i ke kākoʻo ʻana i kēlā mau hui e hoʻolako nei i ka pāʻina e kōkua i nā ʻohana i ka meaʻai e pono ai lākou e ulu pono. "
Ua hāʻawi aku nei ʻo Alaska Airlines Foundation ma mua o ka 896,000 mau meaʻai ma o ka hāʻawi manawaleʻa ʻana $200,000 i nā panakō meaʻai 14 kūloko i Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Hawaii a Hawaii. Hoʻohui ʻia, ma muli o nā loli o ka lawelawe ma ka moku a me nā lumi lewa mokulele, ua hāʻawi ʻia nā meaʻai 273,000 ma o nā makana o nā meaʻai hou i nā panakō meaʻai kaiāulu.
I mea e kōkua pālua ai i ka hopena, ua hoʻokumu ʻo Alaska Airlines a me Horizon Air i ka #MillionMealsChallenge me nā limahana a me nā malihini. Ma waena o kēia manawa a me ka hopena o Mei, ke paipai nei nā mokulele i nā makana i nā panakō meaʻai a me / a i ʻole kekahi o ʻO kā Alaska nā hoa kōkua pōloli e ʻohi kālā no kahi ʻai hou he 1 miliona no nā kaiāulu e pono ai.
Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ʻo Alaska Airlines Foundation ma 1998 ma ke ʻano he ala e kākoʻo i nā kaiāulu a mākou e lawelawe nei ma waena a me nā lalo - e like me nā wā wīwī e like me kēia.
"Mahalo mākou i ka loaʻa ʻana o nā kālā hoʻokumu e hiki ai ke kākoʻo pololei i ka poʻe e makemake nui ana ia," wahi a ʻO Birkett Rakow, ʻo ia hoʻi ka luna o ka papa alakaʻi o ka Alaska Airlines Foundation.
