Posted on: Friday, January 7, 2005

Bank offers to match donations

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First Hawaiian Bank has donated $25,000 to help victims of the Asian tsunami and will donate up to $25,000 more by matching dollar for dollar the first $25,000 of contributions to either of two special accounts at the bank.

Donors may contribute to either the Salvation Army South Asia Disaster Fund or the American Red Cross International Response Fund. Money from the two funds will aid disaster victims.

Tax-deductible donations may be made at any of the bank's 61 branches in Hawai'i, Guam and Saipan.

"We are all part of one human family," said Don Horner, First Hawaiian president and CEO. "We at First Hawaiian want our neighbors in Asia and the Pacific to know that we share their suffering in this unimaginable disaster.

"The public has already been incredibly generous, and we want to encourage individuals and businesses to dig just a little deeper by offering a matching funds program that will double their generosity," Horner said.