Airtel Ghana’s Employees Raise Funds In Support Of Breast Cancer Awareness
Employees of Airtel – the Smartphone network – are championing a series of activities to raise funds in support of breast cancer awareness as the company observes the month long breast cancer awareness month.
On Friday 14th October, scores of Airtel employees stormed a ‘flea market’ set up at the Head Office of the multiple CSR award winning company to support the fundraising effort.
Employees had a wide range of items to select from in support of the fundraising drive – from stationery to toys and children clothing. Proceeds from the event to be donated to organisations working to create awareness on breast cancer.
This latest event follows the ‘run for a cure’ fun race held on Friday 7th October for a similar purpose.
Speaking at the event, Hannah Agbozo, Airtel Ghana’s Legal & Corporate Affairs Director said, “Every year in October we dedicate the entire month to creating awareness and raising funds to support education on breast cancer – its causes, prevention and cure. Proudly led by our employees, we are embarking on a series of activities to support our ambition of creating awareness and encouraging regular checks and early detection and treatment.
Throughout the month, we are also driving an aggressive social media campaign to encourage Ghanaians to choose a healthy lifestyle. We want to encourage our customers and the general public to join the conversation on our social media handles – Facebook, twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #eatwelllivewell to intensify breast cancer awareness”. She concluded.
This year’s campaign focuses on good eating habits, fitness and healthy living and involves a series of employee led activities culminating in a cooking competition.
Airtel continues to lead in CSR programmes that enriches lives and empowers communities.
The Changemaker Company was recently awarded for Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative across Africa for its exceptional and far-reaching efforts to integrate sustainable corporate social responsibility initiatives spanning education, health, sports and community development into its business operations.
About Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 359 million customers across its operations at the end of July 2016. To know more please visit, www.airtel.com
About Airtel in Africa
Airtel is driven by the vision of providing affordable and innovative mobile services to all. Airtel has 17 operations in Africa: Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Airtel International is a Bharti Airtel company. For more information, please visit www.airtel.com , or ‘like’ the Airtel Ghana Facebook page via www.facebook.com/airtelgh or follow us on Twitter via the handle @airtelghana.
