Coronavirus: Jumia CEOs Slash Salaries, Support Workers

The African e-commerce company, Jumia chief executive officers, have pledged to support the fight against the spread of the dreaded coronavirus with 25% of their salaries respectively.

The CEOs, Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec pledged to cut their respective salaries by 25% during the COVID-19 crisis to support the company.

“The last few weeks have been unprecedented, with the COVID-19 crisis affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. We have taken major actions for our team, consumers, partners, and communities. These are also times of great solidarity at Jumia. We will come out of this strong both as a team and as a company,” Hodara and Poignonnec said.

Earlier on, the company had set up solidarity funds for members of the company to make voluntary and confidential contributions to support health workers and affected countries. 

According to the company, it will be sending 500,000 CE-certified face masks to health ministries in Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and Morocco, among others, for use by health workers, leveraging the company’s global logistics network from China and in addition, it will deliver free meals to first responders and health workers in Morocco and Tunisia.

“We have given visibility to key health instructions on our platforms. We collaborated with ministries of health in Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Morocco, and South Africa to use our online platform to share and amplify the reach of much needed important health messages,” the e-commerce company said.

The company urged the world as it is a global pandemic to employ all safety precautions as the company has implemented increased hygiene and sanitary standards in its daily operations and delivery services to ensure the safe experience for its team, partners and consumers.