Aldi is selling a special €4.99 flower bouquet to mark International Nurses Day tomorrow, with all profits going to a fund for Irish healthcare staff.
The 'Irish Nurses Thank You' bouquets will be on sale in all of Aldi's 142 stores nationwide.
The money raised will go to Our Hospital Heroes, a fund to provide comforts and purchase items such as PPE for frontline healthcare workers.
The cash raised will be distributed to the 11 participating hospitals below:
- The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
- St. James’s Hospital
- Beaumont Hospital
- Tallaght University Hospital
- Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown
- St Vincent’s University Hospital
- Mercy University Hospital Cork
- Cork University Hospital
- Waterford University Hospital
- Limerick University Hospital, and
- Cavan General Hospital.
Spokesperson for the Our Hospital Heroes, Michael Sheridan said: “We are delighted that Aldi has chosen ‘Our Hospital Heroes’ as the cause to benefit from the sale of the 'Irish Nurses Thank You' bouquets.
"The nurses and other frontline workers in our eleven hospitals across Ireland have done so much for our country and the funds raised will be used to provide comfort and to protect them and their colleagues by funding items such as PPE and by providing facilities for them to look after their own wellbeing.
"We would ask everyone across Ireland to support this wonderful initiative and to support those who are doing so much to care for others."
More information on Our Hospital Heroes can be found here.
