Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an announcement that the Internet company will contribute $ 37 million in the fight against racism. Significantly, protests are continuing across the US over the death of African-American George Floyd in custody, against the backdrop of which Pichai has announced. In an email sent to all employees Wednesday, the Indian-American CEO of Google and Alphabet Requested everyone to observe eight minutes of 46 seconds of silence and show solidarity in remembrance and honor of the black people killed. Pichai said in reference to this silence, 'This is a symbolic demonstration and George Floyd is just as much Was longing for breath.
This will remind us of the injustice done to Floyd and others. In terms of how the $ 377 million will be given, Pichai, 47, said that $ 1.2 million will be given to the organizations fighting against racism while helping. The amount of $ 25 million will be in the form of advertisement grant to help the organizations fighting against racism and they get important information. "Our first grant amounted to $ 10 million each, our old colleagues Center for Policing Equity and equity will go to the Justice Initiative. We will provide technical support with the help of our Google.com ORG fellows program.
It is made up of $ 32 million contributed by us in the fight against racism in the last five years. 'The CEO wrote in the mail,' The black people of our society are suffering and many people among us base their feelings. But finding ways to stand with them and finding ways to show solidarity with those we love. '' He wrote, 'Yesterday, I spoke to a group of our black leaders, wanting to know that here What will be the way ahead and how can Google help in this? We discussed many ideas and we are figuring out where to bring our energy from in the coming weeks and months and in future.
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