ADDIS ABABA – Ethio telecom has launched the expansion of an aid package that would benefit four thousand university students who are currently enrolled in one of the 45 public universities across Ethiopia. The company made public this aid expansion program on an event attended by university presidents, high government officials and other invited stakeholders on the 31 December 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
This aid package, which includes providing a monthly stipend to public university students who need support, is also an extension of the company’s support program that benefited 840 students from 13 universities since 2006 E.C. This is part of Ethio telecom’s rigorous corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs.
At the beginning of this Ethiopian budget year, Ethio telecom provided a dozen of notebooks to each of 32,974 students from 93 schools across the country. This is in addition to school uniforms and bags offered to more than five thousand students during the same period. Furthermore, the company has sponsored a six-month fashion design training to 100 women drawn from the sub-cities of Addis Ababa to economically empower women and enable them to support themselves and their families.
Since the previous Ethiopian fiscal year, the company has extended its corporate social responsibility areas via its newly established CSR Department through which it made the undermentioned accomplishments:
- provided support to women, the elderly, children, the disabled, street children and others in the community,
- planted more than 1.5 million seedlings in 174 areas through all regions of the company where 17,000 employees took part to support the Green Ethiopia project initiative,
- contributed to the outdoor strip decoration light project, apart from the financial support given to Sheger Beautification Project and
- played vital roles in the extension of HealthNet, WoredaNet, and SchoolNet projects.
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Source: Ethio telecom