At the heart of Vodafone’s Foundation is the belief that our mobile communications technologies can address some of the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges around the world. The Foundation aims to to utilise innovative mobile technology to mobilisie social change and improve people’s lives.
To achieve this objective the Vodafone Foundation invests in the communities in which Vodafone operates and is at the centre of a network of Vodafone’s global and local social investment programmes.
Globally, the Vodafone Foundation makes social investments by funding projects which support disaster relief and preparedness including their Red Alert Programme, through projects which use mobile technology for the benefit of all, and via their World of Difference programme.
In countries in which Vodafone operates, their social investment is delivered by a unique footprint of 28 Vodafone Foundations and social investment programmes. These programmes are directed and chosen by the Foundation Trustees and receive funding from the Vodafone Foundation in the UK as well as their local Vodafone company.
World of Difference
World of Difference is Vodafone’s corporate giving initiative which mobilises people to take time out and work for a charity of their choice. The programme is designed to take corporate giving beyond the traditional “cheque book charity” space and to tap into the energy, skills and difference which people can make and utilise mobile to make it happen.
Designed to appeal to those who wish to take a paid career break and use their skills and experience in the third sector, the programme is also popular with social entrepreneurs, supporting many in developing organisations whose primary focus is to deliver social change.
Managed by Vodafone Foundations, World of Difference currently operates in 19 countries around the world with over 3025 individual winners to date. An on line movement of 250,000 fans are following the programme via social media channels, mobilising and supporting the winners in their efforts to make a difference and deliver social change.
For more information on eligble countries for the World of Difference scheme visit: www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/foundation/wod/countries.html
Vodafone Instant Network Programme
The Vodafone Foundation is committed to providing assistance in the area of disaster relief. Through the Vodafone Instant Network Programme they aim to deploy Vodafone Volunteers and technology in emergencies to provide free communications and technical support to aid agencies and victims and develop new technologies to support the humanitarian community. In conjunction with this the Foundation continues to support emergency telecommunications response partners, Telecoms Sans Frontieres and the World Food Programme in their work.
For more information on Vodafone’s Instant Network Programme visit: www.vodafonefoundation.org/m4gplayer
Mobile for Good
The Foundation is dedicated to mobilising communities around the world to improve their lives. To achieve this objective the Foundation wants to use its charitable giving and its privileged access to Vodafone networks, technology, customers and employees to empower people with the necessary tools to make a difference in the world.
Through the application of Vodafone’s innovative technology the Vodafone Foundation mobilises both local and virtual communities bringing people together to resolve mutual problems and make real change.
The Vodafone Foundation deploys its charitable giving and the liberating power of mobile networks with the aim of not just helping communities but to mobilise them and deliver social change.
National Foundation Offices
Locally, the Vodafone Foundation’s social investment is delivered by a footprint of 28 Vodafone Foundations and social investment programmes. These foundations respond to the needs of the communities in which Vodafone operates and we celebrate their diversity and the tangible contribution and difference they make to peoples lives. The full list of Vodafone Foundation National offices is below:
Vodafone Czech Republic Foundation
Vodafone Egypt Foundation
Vodafone Netherlands Foundation
Vodafone New Zealand Foundation
Vodafone Foundation (including UK activity)
Vodacom Foudation South Africa
The Safaricom Foundation (Kenya)
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NAI KIRAN-NGO,HAZARIBAGH
Nai Kiran is a registered NGO working in the field of eye care.In the year 2012 we started a charitable eye hospital in Hazaribagh.We are looking forward for support from corporate house in free cataract surgeries of poor and destitues of Hazaribagh and Chatra of Jharkhand state.Can we get the way to get involved with you in CSR activitiesWe can send you the details of our work and reports.We have done above 800 cataract surgeries till this date.
hi how can we be assisted we have never worked with you but we would like to.
we are an organisation looking after children with learning disabilities and their parents.
we are in uganda and regestered as an ngo.
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