Deichmann, Europe’s largest shoe retailer, has donated over 1 million face masks to the charity Caritas in Berlin. The masks will be donated to people in need of care, socially disadvantaged or homeless in the German regions of Berlin, Brandenburg and Western Pomerania.
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