2007 december news
communauté
Poland - Orange and journalists play for the third time to help children.
Participants of the third charity football match between the ‘Journalists Football Team’ and the ‘Orange and Friends’ team handed over a cheque for 25 000 PLN to the ‘Koło’ Children and Family Support Centre (Ośrodek Wsparcia Dziecka i Rodziny ‘Koło’) in Warsaw. The Orange team won the match with a 5:4 score. The meeting’s special guest was Leo Beenhakker.
‘The annual charity game played with the journalists’ team is one of the examples of Orange’s social involvement. We are always willing to help those who need help, children in particular,’ said Grażyna Piotrowska-Oliwa, the President of the PTK Centertel Management Board, who kicked off the match.
Participants of the third charity football match between the ‘Journalists Football Team’ and the ‘Orange and Friends’ team handed over a cheque for 25 000 PLN to the ‘Koło’ Children and Family Support Centre (Ośrodek Wsparcia Dziecka i Rodziny ‘Koło’) in Warsaw. The Orange team won the match with a 5:4 score. The meeting’s special guest was Leo Beenhakker.
‘The annual charity game played with the journalists’ team is one of the examples of Orange’s social involvement. We are always willing to help those who need help, children in particular,’ said Grażyna Piotrowska-Oliwa, the President of the PTK Centertel Management Board, who kicked off the match.
Apart from sports competition, the players of both teams fought over a cheque
for 25 000 PLN funded by the TP Group Foundation. Grażyna Piotrowska-Oliwa, the
President of the PTK Centertel Management Board together with Piotr Gołos, the
captain of the winning team handed over the prize to children from the ‘Koło’
Children and Family Support Centre in Warsaw. The money will be used to organize
winter holiday trips for children from Warsaw’s Wola district.
The game was organized by PTK Centertel, the Main Sponsor for the football Orange Ekstraklasa (premier division). The two earlier matches between the teams ended in draws.
The game was organized by PTK Centertel, the Main Sponsor for the football Orange Ekstraklasa (premier division). The two earlier matches between the teams ended in draws.
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Poland - TP Group supports the reconstruction of a school for blind children in Laski : more than 900 000 PLN have been gathered from the TP Group Foundation and TP customers.
TP Group Foundation will donate 100 thousand PLN for the reconstruction of a school for blind children in Laski. Moreover, Telekomunikacja Polska has activated a special charity telephone number 0 400 307 400, and PTK Centertel – a text message number 72001 in order to gather money for this aim.
The outbreak of a fire in primary and grammar school for blind children in Laski
took place on 18th November, at night. Several classrooms went up in flames, the
roof and a part of equipment, among others expensive Braille typing machines,
were seriously damaged. More than a million PLN is needed for its reconstruction.
The TP Group is involved in the help for the school. The TP Group Foundation
will donate 100 thousand PLN for the reconstruction of the school. Moreover, TP,
the national fix line operator, as well as PTK Centertel, Orange network operator,
have activated special charity telephone numbers in order to gather money for
reconstruction of the burnt school. The total revenue will be donated to the institution
in Laski.
Spain - partnership between Orange and UNICEF.
A new partnership between Orange Spain and UNICEF will focus on projects for the promotion of education, to raise funds for “school-in-a-box”.
For this purpose, Orange has launched the ‘UNICEF pack’ and will support UNICEF with 5 € via text message.
A new partnership between Orange Spain and UNICEF will focus on projects for the promotion of education, to raise funds for “school-in-a-box”.
For this purpose, Orange has launched the ‘UNICEF pack’ and will support UNICEF with 5 € via text message.
Orange has supported UNICEF over several emergency occasions by enabling customers
to donate via text message.
Most recently Orange raised £130,000 for UNICEF's South Asia Earthquake Children's Appeal. By simply texting "DONATE" to a special shortcode, Orange customers were able to give £2.50 to the appeal. The donation was added to customers’ phone bills, or deducted from their credit, with Orange passing the full amount charged for each text message to UNICEF. No VAT or operator contributions were deducted. Orange also sent a text message to nearly 4 million customers inviting them to make a text donation.
Most recently Orange raised £130,000 for UNICEF's South Asia Earthquake Children's Appeal. By simply texting "DONATE" to a special shortcode, Orange customers were able to give £2.50 to the appeal. The donation was added to customers’ phone bills, or deducted from their credit, with Orange passing the full amount charged for each text message to UNICEF. No VAT or operator contributions were deducted. Orange also sent a text message to nearly 4 million customers inviting them to make a text donation.
This fundraising method was also effective following the tsunami in December
2004. Orange set up the text donation mechanism quickly and also texted 4 million
of their customers inviting them to donate. Again Orange agreed that the full
amount would come to UNICEF, with no VAT or operator deductions. Orange also held
collections in all of their office sites and 250 stores across the UK. In recognition
of their efforts for the tsunami appeal Orange were short listed in the New Media
Campaign category at the 2005 Third Sector Excellence Awards. Over £200,000 was
raised for the appeal.
Orange set up a similar texting donation mechanism during the Children of Iraq
emergency appeal, which was also a great success
Poland - TP Group - a philanthropy leader
The TP Group has won the ‘Liderzy Filantropii 2007’ (‘Philanthropy Leaders 2007’) contest that was organised for the first time in Poland and has received the prize of ‘Filantrop 2007’ (‘Philanthropist 2007’) statuette. The ranking took into consideration the amounts from the previously made the profit that companies donated in 2006 to charity.
A decision to donate part of the profit to charity is made every year by the
shareholders during the General Shareholders Meeting. The shareholders voluntarily
renounce part of a profit leaving it to the community in which the company is
conducting its activity. In 2006, the shareholders adopted a resolution to donate
to charity almost 25 million PLN.
The TP Group runs and finances well-known charity and educational programmes
such as ‘Phone Mum’, ‘Education with TP Internet’, ‘Internet Republic,’ or ‘Polish
talents’ through the Foundation it has established. TP is also actively involved
in building the information society.
The ‘Philanthropy Leaders’ ranking was organised in Poland by the Warsaw Stock
Exchange, Polish Donors Forum and the magazine Forbes for the first time
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