Wells Fargo Celebrates Diwali with $50,000 Donation to Operation Smile
14 October 2015 - 8:55AM
Business Wire
Wells Fargo sponsors Diwali celebrations
throughout the country; Offers holiday debit card designs
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is celebrating Diwali with
a $50,000 donation to Operation Smile to help provide life-changing
surgeries for children and young adults in India who are born with
cleft lip and cleft palate. To help kick-off the Indian New Year,
the company will participate in a series of Diwali community
celebrations throughout the country, including events in
California, New Jersey and Texas.
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From left to right: William P. Magee, Jr.
D.D.S., M.D., CEO and co-founder of Operation Smile; Shuyi Wang,
vice president and Asian segment marketing manager for Enterprise
Marketing Strategy and Segments at Wells Fargo; Rahul Baig,
managing director and head of New York Corporate Banking at Wells
Fargo; Della Ng, vice president of Integrated Marketing at Wells
Fargo; and Kathleen S. Magee, president and co-founder of Operation
Smile. (Photo credit: Jay Mandel)
“Operation Smile is honored to be partnering again this year
with Wells Fargo to celebrate the Diwali season,” said Lisa
Jardanhazy, Vice President Global Media Strategy & Public
Relations for Operation Smile. “Wells Fargo’s good will and
generosity helps Operation Smile provide increased access to
surgical services for children around the world. We are grateful to
have Wells Fargo’s support and partnership in our belief that all
children deserve safe, well-timed and effective surgery to repair
their cleft conditions.”
From Oct. 16, 2015 to Nov. 30, 2015, Wells Fargo encourages
customers to send their own smiles and holiday goodwill to those in
India by making a donation to Operation Smile. Customers can make a
donation and learn more about the company’s collaboration with
Operation Smile by visiting www.wellsfargo.com/diwalismiles.
“We’re very proud to support Operation Smile, which makes an
incredible difference in the lives of children and their families
who couldn’t otherwise afford the surgeries which cost
approximately $240,” said Rajnish Bharadwaj, executive vice
president and head of Cross Border Strategy and Governance at Wells
Fargo. “At Wells Fargo, we’re committed to support the diverse
communities where we live and work and I encourage everyone to join
us this year as we celebrate Diwali and support such a worthy
cause.”
To celebrate Diwali with customers and the community, Wells
Fargo also is supporting a concert, exclusive Bollywood movie
screenings and a series of melas, or festivals, throughout the
country. These include a concert in San Jose on November 13, and
Diwali festivals in Pleasanton, Calif. on October 24, Dallas, Texas
on October 31 and Edison, New Jersey on November 7. Bollywood Movie
Night Out events will be held in Los Angeles and Washington
D.C.
This year, Wells Fargo once again is offering customers new
Asian Indian art-inspired debit card designs. New and current
customers can personalize their debit cards with six design options
available at Wells Fargo’s Card Design Studio® service.
Wells Fargo knows that many families send money to loved ones in
India to celebrate Diwali, and using its ExpressSend® service,
customers can send money to family and friends at more than 5,700
ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank locations and 22,600 ATMs across India.
There is no transfer fee when customers send more than $500 to
India from an eligible account and transactions $500 and less have
a transfer fee of $5. The ExpressSend service allows customers to
send money easily and conveniently online through
wellsfargo.com/sendmoneynow, by calling 1-800-556-0605 or by
visiting a Wells Fargo banking store, making Wells Fargo the only
U.S. commercial bank to offer all three channels for remitting
funds. The first remittance for each service agreement must be
completed in person at a store. In addition to the transfer fee,
Wells Fargo makes money if converting U.S. dollars to a foreign
currency.
Wells Fargo has contributed to local communities since the
company’s inception in 1852. In 2014, Wells Fargo invested a record
$281.2 million in 17,100 nonprofits, educational programs, and
schools, including to organizations specifically serving the Asian
community, such as South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs (SAY WE).
In 2013, The Chronicle of Philanthropy named Wells Fargo the #1
most generous cash donor in the United States.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide,
diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.7
trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San
Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments,
mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through 8,700
locations, 12,800 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile
banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who
conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 266,000
team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the
United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 30 on
Fortune’s 2015 rankings of America’s largest corporations. Wells
Fargo’s vision is to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs and
help them succeed financially. Wells Fargo perspectives are also
available at Wells Fargo Blogs and Wells Fargo Stories.
About Operation Smile
Operation Smile, headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is
an international children’s medical charity with a presence in more
than 60 countries, whose network of more than 5,400 medical
volunteers from over 80 countries is dedicated to helping improve
the health and lives of children. Since its founding in 1982,
Operation Smile has provided more than 220,000 free surgical
procedures for children and young adults born with cleft lip, cleft
palate and other facial deformities. To build long-term
self-sufficiency in resource poor environments, Operation Smile
trains doctors and local medical professionals in its partner
countries so they are empowered to treat their local communities.
Operation Smile also donates medical equipment, supplies and
provides year-round medical treatment through its worldwide
centers.
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