In FY2024, there were 6,500 wildfires in Canada, burning more than 45 million acres, nearly nine times the average area burned each year. In the summer of the same year, a wildfire on the Island of Maui, Hawaii in the U.S. claimed the lives of nearly 100 people and damaged more than 2,000 homes and other structures.

The Honda Group in the U.S. and the Honda Canada Foundation are longtime partners of the Red Cross and donors to the Disaster Response Alliance of the Canadian Red Cross. These donations allow for pre-arrangement of supplies and ensures a rapid response system and response teams in the event of a disaster. Through this initiative, the Honda Canada Foundation assisted wildfire victims across Canada.

The Honda Group in the U.S. donated USD 500,000 to the American Red Cross for humanitarian assistance in the areas affected by the wildfire in Maui. In addition, together with its associates, the Group implemented a one-on-one matching gift program to organizations that helped many people affected by the wildfires last year.

In December, the Solidarity Workshop, a project carried out by Honda delivered Christmas kits to around 1,000 children in situations of social vulnerability who live around its operational base in Sumaré, Brazil. The company participated in this project by donating the same amount raised throughout the year by its associates in the Sumaré Factory, 91 associates who volunteered to participate in this project assembled and distributed the Christmas bags containing toys, clothes, slippers, school supplies, hygiene materials (for children under 2 years of age) and food to seven different institutions. Since for most children, these were the only gifts they have received to celebrate Christmas, they made a big difference for their families.

Since the company was founded, Honda has sought to contribute to society and its customers, creating quality products and technologies, coexisting harmoniously and promoting philanthropic activities with the aim of strengthening ties with the communities surrounding its operational bases.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the French city of Orléans has been taking in refugees, and Honda France Manufacturing S.A.S. has been hiring skilled refugees from Ukraine as temporary associates. As many of the arrivals spoke neither English nor French, French-speaking Ukrainian associates took on the role of coordinating with the refugees. To date, a cumulative total of 20 refugees have been accepted.

During the 2023 major flooding in Emilia Romagna, Italy, Honda Motor Europe Logistics N.V. donated three water pumps and one small power carrier to the Civil Protection Department in Garzignano Terme, Veneto. This Department is one of the leading organizations in Italy dedicated to emergencies and is charged with assisting firefighters in the event of a major disaster in Italy. For this reason, Honda products that can be used in the event of floods and earthquakes as well as fires were chosen for the donation.

Honda India Foundation (HIF) the CSR arm of all Honda group of company in India, launched a program aimed at improving the health of women and adolescent girls living in specific villages in Greater Noida and Tapukara that have been identified as socially vulnerable communities.
The program focuses on empowering women and adolescent girls who find themselves in the low socio-economic strata of the society and strengthening the existing health infrastructure.

This program is also designed to support and guide them in ways that would eventually enable them to develop into Change Agents who in turn could actively contribute to the community mobilization process known also as the “Swabhiman (Self-respect)” movement.