Disaster and Emergency Relief Performance Data Summary 2005-2008

	2008	2007	2006	2005
Number of disaster relief efforts assisted	7	6	2	4
Total giving value of disaster relief contributions (cash and product - US$)	$2.3 M	6.1M	2.7M	26.2M

Donations of cash and Merck medicines and vaccines played an important role in support of relief efforts for areas affected by disasters in 2005 through 2008. 2005 was unprecedented in terms of disaster relief and included efforts in the wake of the tsunami that struck southeast Asia, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a major earthquake in Pakistan, and floods in Guatemala.

In addition to our efforts to respond to disaster situations, we also engage in discussions aimed at improving overall stakeholder response. In 2007 and 2008 Merck was an active contributor to the World Economic Forum's Humanitarian Response Initiative (WEF HRI), providing input to The Guiding Principles for Public-Private Collaboration for Humanitarian Action (issued at the Forum's Annual Meeting Davos in January of 2008) and serving as a member of the WEF HRI Health Cluster working group. The Guiding Principles were developed by the World Economic Forum and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) through consultations with a broad spectrum of private sector actors, UN agencies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in humanitarian relief.

Major disaster relief activities in 2008 included:

China: Following the May 12, 2008, earthquake in China's Sichuan Province, Merck donated more than $1 million in resources to address immediate needs of the recovery efforts. Since May 2008, as part of a post-earthquake recovery program, Merck has been participating in a public/private partnership around organized by the White House and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). For the remainder of 2009, and through 2010, the partnership will address the following major health infrastructure needs in Sichuan Province:

• Disaster preparedness plan and a comprehensive warning/communications system
• Education/school system infrastructure, including rebuilding and stocking supplies and replacing faculty
• Community rebuilding with a focus on energy use and conservation
• Health and hospital infrastructure including hospitals and community health centers, as well as assistance with disaster response therapies, post–traumatic stress issues and occupational and physical therapy personnel
• Support of overall rural, town, city and province infrastructure and technology assistance

Mynamar: Merck donated more than $720,000 in cash, product and employee contributions to relief efforts in the wake of the Myanmar Cyclone in May 2008.

2008 Hurricane Season:

After thousands of Americans were left without food and shelter due to the hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast region in late summer 2008,The Merck Company Foundation responded with a $250,000 contribution to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. This fund helped provide food, shelter, counseling and other critical services for individuals and families battered by the 2008 storms and hurricanes Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike.

In a new effort to help prevent future damage from natural disasters, The Merck Company Foundation donated $200,000 to The Nature Conservancy to build up natural protective marshlands along both the Gulf Coast and the New Jersey shoreline.

The Merck Company Foundation also provided a $30,000 grant to Catholic Medical Mission Board to assist with relief efforts in Haiti.

Merck donated $64,855 worth of our medicines to our MMOP partners specifically to support Hurricane Gustav relief efforts.

DISASTER	CASH	PRODUCT
2008
Prevention/Natural Disasters (Nature Conservancy)	$200,000	N/A
Mynamar	$58,000	$661,159
China Earthquake	$1,093,464	N/A
Philippine Typhoon	$13,375	N/A
2008 Hurricane Season/Gustav	$280,000	$64,855
India Floods	0	$67,539
Hurricane Ike	0	$62,017
Honduras Floods	0	$16,223
2007
Tropical Storm Noel in the Dominican Republic	N/A	$3 million
Earthquake in Peru	$75,000 in cash	$2.3 million
North Korea Floods	N/A	$439,000
Nicaragua Hurricane	N/A	$178,000
Vietnam Typhoon	$50,500	N/A
Mexico Floods	$50,000	N/A
2006
Israel-Lebanon Crisis	N/A	$2.3 million
Indonesia Earthquake	$100,000	$254,000