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Vodafone donates EGP 10m to back state efforts against COVID-19
Vodafone Egypt donated EGP 10 million to support the Egyptian Health Ministry in fighting the coronavirus (COVID-19). The funds would help the ministry buy needed medical equipment for isolation hospitals.
Moreover, the company launched a campaign for spreading awareness about COVID-19 and donation via SMS to reinforce state efforts in this crisis.
Under the campaign, the company offered a free SMS service for its customers to promote the health ministry’s efforts by sending awareness messages about COVID-19 to their relatives. The company donates EGP 1 for each awareness SMS.
The Health Ministry provides the company with the content of the awareness messages to be circulated among its customers.
Vodafone Egypt believes in the pivotal role that people can play in their society in such hard times as the company can reach more than 44 million customers and it seeks to provide them with meticulous information for protecting themselves from the coronavirus and confronting it.
Moreover, the company announced offering 3000 minutes and 10 gigabytes monthly for free for doctors, nurses and administrators working at isolation hospitals. The company coordinated this with the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and the Health Ministry.
The company underlined the importance of cooperation among various state institutions, private sectors and citizens.
The company has always been commitment to promoting development in the country, especially the health and educational sectors. Therefore, it is a top priority for the company to buttress the state in such emergency.
Vodafone Egypt and its foundation for social development adopted a unified strategy to back state efforts in the face of the coronavirus crisis.
This is not the first initiative to be launched by the company and its foundation as they have spearheaded several other overtures.
Vodafone launched an educational platform to help Egyptian students continue their studies online in accordance with the government decision to shut down schools as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
The company has also launched a “Stay at Home” initiative to encourage people to stay at home and go out only for emergency to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Vodafone Egypt CEO Alexandre Froment-Curtil said “The social responsibility of the private sector should be embraced in this period. We hope that our initiative would incentivize more companies to follow suit in order to reinforce the Egyptian government’s efforts to confront the coronavirus and overcome this crisis.”
He added that Vodafone Egypt is committed to its role in the Egyptian market which is one of the most important markets for the company in the region.
He said the company is rallying up all its technological potentials to facilitate Egyptians’ lives and ensure their safety.
He added that the crisis which Egypt and most world countries are facing has prompted heavyweight companies to play their social role and move to support countries overcome the current crisis.
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