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UPM is a material solutions company, renewing products and entire value chains with an extensive portfolio of renewable fibres, advanced materials, decarbonization solutions, and communication papers. Our performance in sustainability has been recognized by third parties, including EcoVadis and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. We operate globally and employ approximately 15,800 people worldwide, with annual sales of approximately €10.3 billion. Our shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. UPM – we renew the everyday.

The Lutheran World Federation puts faith into action for a more just, peaceful and reconciled world. As a global communion or family of 150 churches in the Lutheran tradition, it represents over 78 million Christians in 99 countries. The LWF acts on behalf of member churches to provide humanitarian assistance, to advocate for the protection of human rights, and offers dialogue in theology, interfaith and inter-church and ecumenical relations. LWF work is recognized for the quality of its humanitarian emergency response by its partners, including UNHCR and Islamic Relief Worldwide. It serves people in need irrespective of ethnicity, religion or gender. In developing countries, it works to improve livelihoods, education, gender relations and mitigation of climate change. The LWF is supported financially by churches and other partners, including the United Nations and governments agencies. The LWF Communion Office comprises staff who are based in Geneva and worldwide. In all, 65 staff members work in this office. In its country programs, the LWF has a workforce comprised of international staff members, national and refugee staff and volunteers, of which over 99% are locals.

Fida International, founded in 1927, is the Missions and Development Co-Operation Organisation of the Pentecostal Churches of Finland. Fida aims at building hope and a better future with the most vulnerable and marginalised people living in poverty. Fida and the Churches have around 144 sent workers, with additional family members, living abroad. Fida operates in 50 countries together with local partners and over 300 local professionals. Since 1974 Fida has carried out development co-operation with support from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Fida has a frame agreement with ECHO, the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department. Fida runs Development Co-operation, Child Sponsorship and Humanitarian Assistance Programmes with partners in nearly 20 countries. The goal is to strengthen local communities and people to change their society and living conditions in a just and sustainable way for long-term results. Fida’s invaluable partners are mainly churches and faith-based actors, other civil society organisations and national authorities. Special care is taken to ensure that the marginalised groups participate. Much of Fida and its partners’ work concerns whole family well-being. In Finland, Fida is known for Fida Secondhand Shops, a pioneer of recycling and circular economy in Finland. Fida secondhand promotes recycling and their profit is used to help the less priviledged people of the world. The word fida comes from Latin, meaning faithful and trustworthy.