Le Meridien Amman and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Ended the Environmental and Charity Campaign with Magnificent Results

Amman, Jordan, April 12, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Le Meridien Amman and Starwood Hotels & Resorts achieved distinguished results from its latest Charity and Environmental campaign that was launched in Middle East region as of November 1st, 2010 and lasted on 31st of January 2011. The aim of the campaign was to protect the environment and raise money to provide wheel chairs to children with disabilities. Le Meridien Amman has donated the wheelchair which was bought from this initiative to Al Hussein Society for the Habilitation and Rehabilitation of the Physically Challenged.

Le Meridien Amman and more than 14 Starwood properties across the Middle East came together to support the cause by collecting plastic caps from bottles used at their hotels and raised funds by selling them to plastic recycling companies in the region. Along with that, hotel associates have also collected caps from their homes and neighborhoods to contribute to the collection and participated in different activities that have been conducted by the hotels to support this cause particularly.

“I’m proud to announce that Starwood hotels in the ME have managed to collect more than 1,380 kgs of plastic caps which have been replaced by 62 wheel chairs which were distributed by the participating Starwood properties to charity association in the ME that cares for handicapped people in their places. The initiative has also contributed in cleaning up some places in the region from garbage, in addition to processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials,” said Guido De Wilde, Vice President & Regional Director, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Middle East.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with 1025 properties in 100 countries and territories with 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le Meridien®, Sheraton®, Four Points® by Sheraton, and the recently launched Aloft®, and Element SM. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.

For further information please contact:
Sewar Sawalha
PR Manager
Le Meridien Amman
Tel: 00962 6 5696511 x 1636
Email: sewar.sawalha@lemeridien.com

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