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15 Dicembre 2014 - 10:00AM
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Vodafone Group Plc
15 December 2014
15 December 2014
Vodafone, Vodacom and Safaricom support deployment of medical
personnel to fight Ebola crisis
Vodafone, Vodacom and Safaricom are supporting the African Union
as it seeks to deploy more medical specialists to reach the areas
in West Africa worse-affected by the Ebola outbreak.
A total donation of $1.25 million has been made to the African
Union's 'United Against Ebola' appeal, Médecins Sans Frontières and
Vodafone HealthLine in Ghana. Vodafone Group has made a $500,000
donation to the African Union's appeal, while Vodacom, the African
communications company majority-owned by Vodafone, and Safaricom,
Vodafone's affiliate in Kenya, have each contributed $250,000 to
the appeal.
The Vodafone Foundation, Vodafone's philanthropic arm, is also
supporting the effort to ensure medical attention and advice
reaches the people who need it most. The Foundation has given a
total of $250,000 to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), helping with
the NGO's supply of medical support and resources during the Ebola
outbreak, and the Vodafone HealthLine programme, the medical advice
and information service from Vodafone Ghana. The funds donated to
Vodafone HealthLine in Ghana have been used to increase capacity,
as there has been a rise in calls to the service with more people
enquiring about symptoms in wake of the Ebola outbreak. Prompted by
MSF's response to the Ebola outbreak, the Vodafone Foundation made
an GBP80,000 ($125,000) donation to support its work.
Safaricom, Vodacom and Vodafone Ghana are also harnessing the
power of mobile technology to help raise further funds in the
countries in which they operate. They are part of an African
Union-led SMS fundraising campaign, which uses the short code 7979
with local adaptations. People have been asked to text 'Stop Ebola'
to this code in order to donate in their respective countries.
Ebola has claimed more than 5,000 lives across some parts of
West Africa since it was first reported in Guinea in December 2013.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), this is the
largest outbreak on the continent, affecting mostly Guinea,
Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Earlier this month, the African Union announced the deployment
of 250 Nigerian health workers to the worse-affected areas of West
Africa to help fight the Ebola disease. The funds from Vodafone,
Vodacom and Safaricom will be used to fund the deployment of these
and other health workers.
Vodafone Group Foundation Director Andrew Dunnett said: "There
is an urgent need to act fast to provide medical attention for
people in the hardest hit areas of West Africa. The African Union's
appeal is bringing together companies with a presence all over
Africa to provide much-needed, immediate medical support, while
mobile technology, the most powerful communications platform across
Africa, will provide a means for further fundraising to help fight
the Ebola outbreak."
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About Vodafone
Vodafone is one of the world's largest telecommunications
companies and provides a range of services including voice,
messaging, data and fixed communications. Vodafone has mobile
operations in 26 countries, partners with mobile networks in 55
more, and fixed broadband operations in 17 markets. As of 30
September 2014, Vodafone had 438 million mobile customers and 11
million fixed broadband customers. For more information, please
visit: www.vodafone.com.
About Vodacom
Vodacom is a leading African mobile communications company
providing a wide range of services including mobile voice,
messaging, data and converged services to more than 60 million
customers. From our roots in South Africa, we've grown our mobile
operations to include networks in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic
of Congo, Mozambique, and Lesotho.
We also offer business managed services to enterprises in over
40 countries across Africa. Vodacom is majority owned by Vodafone,
one of the world's largest mobile communications companies by
revenue. We're listed on the JSE Limited and our head office is in
Johannesburg, South Africa.
About Safaricom
Safaricom transforms lives. We provide voice, data, financial
services and enterprise solutions for a range of subscribers, small
businesses and government, using a variety of platforms. As the
biggest communication company in East and Central Africa, Safaricom
has over 21 million subscribers, providing over 200,000 touch
points for its customers and offering over 100 different products
under its portfolio. Listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and with
annual revenues in excess of Kshs 100 Billion, Safaricom invested
Kshs 27.78 billion in infrastructure this year, providing over half
of Kenya's population with 3G coverage and providing 2G coverage to
90% of Kenyans. Safaricom has harnessed its proprietary fibre
infrastructure to build a dedicated enterprise business which
provides managed IT services to clients in the East African region.
Safaricom pioneered commercial mobile money transfer globally
through M-PESA, the most successful service of its kind anywhere in
the world. Launched in March 2007, M-PESA now has over 19 million
customers and over 81,000 Agent outlets countrywide.
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